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Harry and Meghan join Queen on palace balcony after Trooping the Colour

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive in a vintage Rolls Royce Phantom together this morning. Charlotte clapped excitedly when the thousands of people ...

Spain Swears In New Cabinet With Record Number Of Women Ministers

The government cabinet has the most female ministers in Spanish and European history, putting the cap on one of the fastest power transitions in the country's f...

3 life terms handed to axe murderer Henri van Breda

He said he considered the crimes to have been premeditated, as Van Breda would have had to arm himself before bludgeoning Rudi, Martin and Teresa to death and t...

Senate Report: Obama Officials Repeatedly Lied to Congress About Iran Finances

By itself, the Obama Treasury Department's issuing of a license to allow Iran to convert $5.7 billion it held at a bank in Oman was not illegal. They subordinat...

Body found after gator pulls woman into south Florida lake

Search teams have located the body of a woman who vanished Friday morning in South Florida , according to officals. The park where Matsuki disappeared Friday...

China honours Putin with first ‘friendship medal’

But Russia was suspended from the summit of the top industrialized nations in 2014 after its annexation of Crimea , a part of Ukraine. As the Eastern leade...

"Didn't Canada Burn Down White House?" Donald Trump To Justin Trudeau

French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted video of an intimate conversation he had with President Trump , writing "engaging, keeping the dialogue alive, now...

Donald Trump says he may pardon late boxing legend Muhammad Ali

Per Jacqueline Alemany of CBS News, Trump said, "I'm thinking about Muhammad Ali" when discussing potential pardons . Trump said he was considering a numbe...

Death toll from Guatemala volcano eruption rises to 99

Thousands of people have been evacuated, CONRED said. "Nobody wants to go back there". "You have to be prepared, for the children", he said. General Walter ...

Philippines' Duterte says will quit if enough women protest his kiss

The incident took place on Sunday when Duterte was speaking to a crowd of overseas Filipino workers at the meet and greet event when he invited two women on sta...

Minnesota woman's obituary says 'world is a better place without her'

Gina and Jay were raised by their maternal grandparents. Things start to get curious in the third paragraph. The obit claims Dehmlow "became pregnant by her h...

US Kids Taught School Shooting Safety Tips In Heartbreaking Nursery Rhyme

The post has already been liked and shared more than 60,000 times with many other parents sharing their outrage that the spate of school shootings had inevitabl...

Orlando family gets alligator surprise while using backyard Slip 'n Slide

Six-year-old Timmy was cooling himself down on a slip and slide with an inflatable alligator, not realising an actual alligator was sitting and watching. Locate...

Ghani Announces Temporary Truce With Afghan Taliban

Gen John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said last month that some elements of the Taliban are showing interest in peace talks. This was Pre...

New Jersey State Trooper stops retired officer who delivered him

In conversation, Mr Bailly said he was a retired officer from the Piscataway Police Department, New Jersey State Police said . On that fateful day 27 years a...

How Korean tourist survived almost a week lost in the bush

Local authorities are calling Han's survival a miracle, but Gaulke said that she remains surprisingly upbeat, despite still being in Tully Hospital , where she...

Departing 8th graders gifted bulletproof backpack liners ahead of high school

A group of eighth graders in Pennsylvania have been given bulletproof shields for their backpacks as a graduation gift as they prepare for life in high school. ...

Italy Politics: Italy PM calls European Union immigration policy a failure

During his speech to the Senate ahead of the vote, Conte reaffirmed several of the coalition's key manifesto themes, including a tough line on migrants, rejecti...

Trump Commutes Sentence of Alice Marie Johnson After Request From Kim Kardashian

After lobbying from Kim Kardashian , Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of a woman serving a life sentence for selling drugs . Johnson hersel...

Scott Pruitt Made Staff Drive Him Around To Find His Favorite Lotion

Congress members on both sides of the aisle have expressed concern over Pruitt's actions, which included illegally purchasing a $43,000 soundproof phone booth ...

Republicans Are More Eager to Vote This Year Than Democrats

That includes the Lone Star State, where Democratic candidates have outnumbered Republicans in state races for the first time in recent memory. After months...

Kenya says plane on domestic flight missing

It disappeared off the radar screens at Nairobi global airport, its final destination, around 80 minutes later, the owners said in a statement. - The plane ...

King warns Jordan 'at crossroads' over economic protests

According to a palace statement, King Abdullah said the new cabinet should review the country's tax system and immediately start a dialogue over the draft incom...

Guatemala Volcano Eruption Kills 7; 1.7 Million Affected

The Fuego volcano , about 40km south-west of the capital Guatemala City , spewed rocks and ash into the sky on Sunday. "When the lava was already here the...

Universities strong on research, falling behind on academic reputation

Universities are evaluated according to six metrics which include academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, citations per faculty, global...

Trump tariffs are a wake-up call to other nations: Larry Kudlow

Canada set a deadline of July 1st for us to lift our moronic tariffs before they respond with theirs, and make this trade war amongst allies official. One ...

US muses about replacing NAFTA with bilaterals; no deal, Canada says

Trump also is set to hold a series of one-on-one meetings, including with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron . Cana...

Trump Unites U.S. Allies-in Opposition to His Trade Policies

Trudeau described the tariffs as " unilateral and illegal " and the national security pretext as "risible". Last week Trudeau was publicly critical of Trump...

Cahill, Arzani in Australia's final World Cup squad

Here are the winners and losers from the Socceroos final squad for the World Cup ... The players will be toiling to impress new interim coach Bert van...

Speaker Ryan Dismisses Trump’s Charges of a Spy in his Campaign

Ryan's comments about Trump's spy claims came days after Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) had expressed a similar assessment , and were later echoed by Senate Intell...

Henri Van Breda handed three life terms for family murder

Judge Siraj Desai described 23-year-old Henri Van Breda's January 2015 rampage as "savage and vicious" with "an nearly unprecedented degree of disregard for one...

Corpus Christi man bitten by severed rattlesnake head

But his condition deteriorated so badly that an ambulance had to meet him en route, and he was later life-flighted to a hospital. South Texas' KIII-TV report...

Immigrants Death Toll in Tunisia Coasts Rise to 112

Human traffickers have increasingly moved their operations to Tunisia since a crackdown by the coastguard in neighbouring Libya. More than 32,000 people hav...

Led coalition `destroyed Syrian city of Raqqa´

An global human rights group on Tuesday accused the US and its allies of showing little regard for civilians' lives while attacking the Syrian city that was o...

Israeli strikes Hamas in Gaza after ‘projectiles’ fired

The strikes come after militants broke days of calm along the volatile frontier by firing projectiles toward Israeli communities. The Israeli army claimed in ...