Category Archives: World
Diver mauled by shark north of Australia to undergo surgery
CANBERRA, Australia - A diver who was mauled by a 4-meter (13-foot) bull shark near the Great Barrier Reef was flown in stable condition to an Australian hospital for microsurgery to an arm, a paramed...
Jan 21, 2017
California flood sweeps cabins, cars down coastal canyon
LOS ANGELES - More than 20 people escaped injury when a flood swept cabins and vehicles down a coastal canyon as the second in a trio of storms drenched California with heavy rain and brought more sno...
Jan 21, 2017
Search intensifies for 23 missing in Italian avalanche
FARINDOLA, Italy - The strain showed on Fabio Salzetta’s face. The maintenance worker at the luxury Hotel Rigopiano who escaped being buried under the deadly avalanche because he had gone to che...
Jan 21, 2017
Budapest mourns as 16 die in fiery bus crash on Italian road
VERONA, Italy - The Hungarian students had just finished a week of skiing in France when their bus swerved right, then left, then hit a highway barrier and burst into flames. Sixteen people were kille...
Jan 20, 2017
12 people likely dead after central China landslide
BEIJING - Authorities in central China say 12 people are likely dead inside a hotel overrun by a landslide. State media reported that rescuers have not detected signs of life from 10 people who were t...
Jan 20, 2017
British foreign secretary 'positive and optimistic' on Trump
YANGON, Myanmar - British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says he’s “positive and optimistic” that the policies of newly inaugurated President Donald Trump would work in Britain̵...
Jan 20, 2017
Bomb blast kill 22, wounds at least 50 in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A bomb exploded Saturday in a market in a northwest tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50, officials said. Dr. Sabir Hussain at the main ...
Jan 20, 2017
S. Korean minister arrested over artist blacklist allegation
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean prosecutors on Saturday arrested President Park Geun-hye’s culture minister and her former top presidential adviser over allegations that they blackliste...
Jan 20, 2017
On first day, Trump signs health care executive order
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump quickly assumed the mantle of the White House on Friday, making his first executive order one aimed at his predecessor’s signature health care law and swearin...
Jan 20, 2017
Trump draws far smaller inaugural crowd than Obama
WASHINGTON - Far fewer people attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday than his predecessor’s swearing-in eight years ago. Photos of the National Mall from President Barack Ob...
Jan 20, 2017
