BEIJING — Chinese authorities ended the search for the remaining eight missing in a massive chemical warehouse explosion last month, setting the final death toll at 173 in China’s worst industrial disaster in years. The announcement on the Tianjin city government’s microblog said there was no hope of finding the eight people, and the court […]
Chinese authorities ended the search for the remaining eight missing in a massive chemical warehouse explosion last month, setting the final death toll at 173 in China's worst industrial disaster in years.
Seemingly struggling to start the year, Summerville’s football team is suddenly streaking after a statement win over Goose Creek, 21-0, Friday night at John McKissick Field in TruMoo Friday Night Rivals action.
SUMMERVILLE — One lengthy streak came to an end Friday night, and perhaps another one dawned.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - On high alert after a day of upsets during which Serena Williams was sent packing from the U.S. Open, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer made sure their names were not added to the list of shocks on Friday as they posted emphatic semi-final victories.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is expected to announce measures to strengthen the economy on Monday as falling commodity prices weigh on growth and the ringgit currency plumbs near 18-year lows.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Search teams using boats and helicopters resumed looking on Saturday for at least 16 people still missing after torrential rain and flooding across Japan this week, while thousands waited to return to their homes as waters slowly receded.
A moderate earthquake hit Tokyo early today (September 12, 2015), waking residents and shaking buildings in the Japanese capital, but there was no immediate report of any damage. At least 11 people were injured in the capital in connection with the jolt, “but no one was seriously injured,” said an official of the Tokyo Fire […]
Chinese authorities say they've ended the search for the remaining missing in a massive chemical warehouse explosion last month. The move sets the final death toll at 173 in China's worst industrial disaster in years.
US President Barack Obama has promised that the United States will admit 10,000 Syrian refugees for resettlement over the next 12 months, after criticism that America is not doing enough. But this would represent a huge increase in the number of families arriving on US soil. In the more that four years since fighting erupted […]
The stiff sentence handed down to Venezuela's most prominent jailed opposition leader brought a cascade of criticism on Friday as President Nicolas Maduro's government continued along a combative path despite a...
Singapore's prime minister on Saturday lauded the city-state's youth vote for helping return his party to power in a massive victory for the 12th time since independence a half-century ago.
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In her tender 20 years of life, Abriana Titus has lived in 14 foster homes. From her birth in Baltimore to a drug-addicted young mother, to her adoption at 6 into an unprepared family in Charleston, and nearly a decade spent in and out of strangers’ foster homes, her life has been punctuated by abusive situations in every shade of bad.
A massive construction crane crashed into Mecca’s Grand Mosque in stormy weather yesterday, September 11, 2015, killing at least 107 people and injuring 238, Saudi authorities said, days before the annual hajj pilgrimage. The civil defence agency said on Twitter that emergency teams were sent to the scene after a “crane fell at the Grand […]
Super Mario, the hyperactive little plumber who has become one of the best-known characters in video game history, celebrates his 30th birthday on Sunday and Japanese giant Nintendo is marking the event with the release of a creative new format. With his blue overalls, red cap and fulsome moustache, Mario is instantly recognizable, a rare […]
The Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham is understood to be preparing a complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) against The Sun after it deployed subterfuge, hidden cameras and a baby in a sting on him that it then used to undermine Jeremy Corbyn.
RIYADH (Reuters) - At least 107 people were killed when a crane toppled over at Mecca's Grand Mosque on Friday, Saudi Arabia's Civil Defence authority said, less than two weeks before Islam's annual haj pilgrimage.
RIYADH (Reuters) - At least 107 people were killed when a crane toppled over at Mecca's Grand Mosque on Friday, Saudi Arabia's Civil Defence authority said, less than two weeks before Islam's annual haj pilgrimage.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Italy rules at the U.S. Open tennis championships on Saturday when childhood friends and Fed Cup team mates Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci play for the women's title in the last grand slam of the year.
The U.N. peacekeeping chief on Friday confirmed a new allegation of sexual abuse by a peacekeeper in Central African Republic, the conflict-ripped country where the United Nations is already investigating 15 other cases of...
The coal mine in 'Behemoth', premiering at the Venice Film Festival, is like Dante's hell, director Zhao Liang says. Jane Ross reports.
The coal mine in 'Behemoth', premiering at the Venice Film Festival, is like Dante's hell, director Zhao Liang says. Jane Ross reports.
LONDON (Reuters) - Never one to duck a challenge, Richie McCaw is determined to take the pressure that comes with trying to become the first New Zealand captain to win the World Cup on foreign soil and use it to his advantage.
LONDON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Never one to duck a challenge, Richie McCaw is determined to take the pressure that comes with trying to become the first New Zealand captain to win the World Cup on foreign soil and use it to his advantage.