Torrential rain falls for 2 days
JOSO, Japan — Floods may fill your house with mud, but at least it’s standing and you’re alive.
“It’s still here!” said 34-year-old Chie ...
LONDON — Judy Carne, a star of the U.S. comedy show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” has died in a British hospital. She was 76.
She was famous for popularizing the “Sock it...
Zimbabwe slow to pursue case
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Amid fears that extraditing an American bow hunter for killing Ceil the lion could hurt Zimbabwe’s hunting business, autho...
Automatic appeal gets removed
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church’s process for annulling marriages today, allowing for fast-track decision...
ROME — Italy’s top criminal court has scathingly faulted prosecutors for presenting a flawed and hastily constructed case against Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyf...
LONDON — She has lived longer than any of her predecessors, seen a dozen prime ministers come and go, and presided over six decades of British history — from war with Ge...
They flee from war, poverty
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Thousands of exhausted migrants reached their dream destinations of Germany and Austria on Saturday, completing epic journ...
BANGKOK — Police investigating last month’s Bangkok bombing said today that the fingerprints of a foreign man arrested at the Thai-Cambodia border match those found on a...
Francis sets Year of Mercy
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is applying his vision of a merciful church to women who have had abortions, easing their path toward forgiveness a...
But docs cite safety issues
LONDON — A tiny, wireless pacemaker could offer some heart patients an alternative to the traditional devices, a new study says. Some doctors,...
