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US home construction up

Nov 20, 2018 / 8:04 am

U.S. home construction improved a slight 1.5 per cent in October, but in a troubling sign, ground breakings for single-family houses fell. The Commerce...

Landslide derails train

Nov 20, 2018 / 6:56 am

A commuter train travelling toward Barcelona was derailed by a landslide on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring dozens, Spanish authorities said. The...

Angry police demand pay

Nov 20, 2018 / 6:54 am

Disgruntled police, military and prison guards stormed Papua New Guinea's Parliament on Tuesday in a violent pay dispute stemming from an international...

Green Tuesday on east coast

Nov 20, 2018 / 6:46 am

People lined up in the rain in Massachusetts Tuesday morning to be among the first customers at the state's first two legal pot shops, more than two years...

Suicide bomber kills 40

Nov 20, 2018 / 6:38 am

Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has targeted a gathering of Muslim religious scholars in Kabul, killing at least 40 people. Public Health Ministry...

Dead whale full of plastic

Nov 20, 2018 / 5:35 am

A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including drinking cups and flip-flops, a park official...

Man shot after cop stabbed

Nov 20, 2018 / 5:32 am

An assailant stabbed a policeman Tuesday close to the Grand Place in Brussels' historic centre, before officers got to the scene and shot the suspect. The...

Ivanka's email oops?

Nov 20, 2018 / 5:28 am

Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and a top White House adviser, sent hundreds of emails about government business from a personal email account last...

Deadly hospital shooting

Nov 20, 2018 / 5:16 am

An argument outside a Chicago hospital turned deadly when a man pulled out a gun and killed an emergency room doctor whom he knew, then ran into the hospital...

2 year old beaten, burned

Nov 19, 2018 / 6:55 am

Police in the Fort Worth area say a two-year-old girl died after a caregiver hit her with a belt and burned her buttocks for discipline. Police were called to...

Acosta's pass threatened

Nov 19, 2018 / 6:53 am

The Trump administration is threatening to again suspend White House press credentials for CNN reporter Jim Acosta. After a federal judge ordered that...

Will Kelly stay or won't he?

Nov 19, 2018 / 6:51 am

President Donald Trump isn't committing to a previous pledge to keep chief of staff John Kelly for the remainder of his term, part of widespread speculation...

Tot run over in parking lot

Nov 19, 2018 / 6:47 am

A toddler was run over and killed in a YMCA parking lot after wandering away from her mother. The incident occurred on Saturday at the Haverford Area YMCA in...

Former footballer charged

Nov 19, 2018 / 6:47 am

Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman on board a train. The 51-year-old Gascoigne, who has struggled with...

Pam calls Aus PM 'smutty'

Nov 19, 2018 / 6:44 am

Pamela Anderson is criticizing Australia's prime minister for making "smutty, unnecessary comments about a woman voicing her political opinion."...

Picasso find a hoax

Nov 19, 2018 / 6:43 am

A Romanian novelist who thought she had found a painting by Pablo Picasso stolen from a museum in the Netherlands six years ago seems to have been the victim of...

Urged to flee volcano

Nov 19, 2018 / 6:36 am

Disaster co-ordination authorities have asked 10 communities in Guatemala to evacuate and go to safe areas after an increased eruption of the Volcano of Fire....

Searchers step up efforts

Nov 19, 2018 / 5:32 am

Volunteers in white coveralls, hard hats and masks poked through ash and debris Sunday, searching for the remains of victims of the devastating Northern...

Trump passes on death tape

Nov 19, 2018 / 5:29 am

President Donald Trump said there is no reason for him to listen to a recording of the "very violent, very vicious" killing of Saudi journalist Jamal...

6 killed, 5 hurt in protests

Nov 18, 2018 / 7:56 pm

Six people were killed and at least five others were wounded Sunday during demonstrations across Haiti protesting allegations of embezzlement from a Venezuelan...