The Muted Olympic Hype Is Deafening

With less than 90 days until the Summer Games, it’s all pain and no party in Rio. The first thing you notice is nothing, and the nothingnes...

5/10/2016

7.0 quake strikes Japan; rescuers try to free residents

A dentist office is seen on its shaken off its foundation in Kumamoto's Chuo Ward. A magnitude-7.3 earthquake rocked Kumamoto Prefectur...

4/15/2016

Second strong quake rocks Kumamoto area,killing at least 11

A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture early Saturday, killing at least 11 more people, injuring many more and bringing down ...

4/15/2016

Bosnian 'Indiana Jones': Discovery of stone sphere suggests existence of lost civilization

Bosnian 'Indiana Jones' Cites This Mysterious Ball as a Key to Past. Archaeologists have reportedly unearthed a huge stone sphere i...

4/14/2016

US-born Ukrainian finance minister may buy country's largest telecom company – reports

Ukraine’s finance minister may soon own one of Ukraine's largest IT businesses. A firm co-founded by US-born Natalie Jaresko, a former S...

4/14/2016

Panama has raided the law offices at the center of the ‘Panama Papers'

Organized crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm Tuesday looking for evidence of money laundering and financin...

4/13/2016

Dennis Skinner Gets Chucked Out Of Commons For Calling Cameron 'Dodgy Dave'

Dennis Skinner branded David Cameron "dodgy Dave" in the Commons on Monday - and got thrown out of the chamber for it. The vetera...

4/11/2016

Turkey car bomb: Explosive-filled vehicle explodes at southeast military base

At least twenty soldiers have been wounded following a car bomb attack in the mainly Kurdish region of southeast Turkey. Security sources s...

4/11/2016

Brazil impeachment: Vote deals new blow to Rousseff

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has suffered a blow to her hopes of staving off impeachment proceedings, after a committee voted they ...

4/11/2016

Who Loses the Most From ‘Brexit’? Try Goldman Sachs

A vast construction site in the heart of London is a testament to  Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s $500 million bet on the city’s global financia...

4/11/2016

World's longest snake, a python estimated at 8m long, caught in Malaysia

A huge python found on a construction site in Malaysia could take the record for the longest snake ever to be caught with initial estimates ...

4/10/2016

New Zealand reviews its foreign trust rules

New Zealand's government has appointed a tax expert to review its disclosure rules for foreign trusts and says it's open to consider...

4/10/2016

Mexico embraces US-style trials to fight impunity.

The recent court case following the murder of Temixco mayor Gisela Mota highlighted the growing pains of the new system. It was once unthin...

3/25/2016

Sinn Fein Leader Is Accused of Covering Up Rape by I.R.A. Member

Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, is at the center of a new controversy over his handling of rape allegations against a senior member o...

10/21/2014

It Looked Like a Stabbing, but Takata Air Bag Was the Killer

Hien Tran lay dying in intensive care this month after a car accident, as detectives searched for clues about the apparent stab wounds in he...

10/21/2014

Oscar Pistorius starts five-year term for killing Reeva Steenkamp

Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius started his five-year jail sentence on Tuesday for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, m...

10/21/2014

S.Korean sunken ferry: Angry parent assaults police during briefing

An angry father of a student passenger aboard the sunken Korean ferry who remained missing on Saturday assaulted police offciers during a br...

4/20/2014

Malaysia jet search costs estimated to be US$100m,the most expensive ever

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is set to be the most expensive in aviation history, analysts say, as efforts to find ...

4/20/2014

Megaupload's Dotcom,facing legal threat,launches political party

Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom holds court while bathing in the pool of a sprawling New Zealand mansion,fist bumping and chatting with some of t...

4/19/2014

Ukraine jets give low fly-by to defiant cities

Maverick MiGs? Ukraine jets give low fly-by to defiant cities. The Ukrainian army is ramping up psychological pressure on regions engu...

4/18/2014