Obama Praises Colombia’s Peace Efforts With Rebels and Seeks Big Aid Increase
WASHINGTON — President Obama welcomed President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia to the White House on Thursday for a buoyant celebration of the $10 billion, 15-year American effort to help Colombia vanquish its violent drug cartels and end its festering guerrilla war. It was also a chance for tw...
5 Czechs Who Were Missing in Lebanon Arrive Home
PRAGUE — Five Czechs who had been missing in Lebanon since July and presumed kidnapped arr...
Motörhead frontman Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister dies at 70
Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, frontman of the British heavy metal band Motörhead, has died at ...
Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth
Beneath the surface of the global financial system lurks a multitrillion-dollar problem that...
Rory McIlroy’s big-picture mentality could end in a Masters high-five
Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods. Rory McIlroy? In his wildest dreams as a young golfer, even when...
US shutdown: Parties in fresh talks as next deadline looms
Democratic and Republican negotiators are holding talks on Monday to try to reach a deal on border security and avoid another gove...
Pakistan’s Masood Azhar: China blocks bid to call militant terrorist
China has blocked a bid to designate the leader of the group behind an attack which brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war...
‘Growing inequality threatens democracy’
Inequalities in pay and opportunities in the UK are becoming so extreme they are threatening democracy, an Institute for Fiscal St...
Tory leadership contest: Michael Gove pledge on EU citizenship applications
BBC News : Michael Gove will allow EU nationals living in the UK at the time of the referendum to apply free of charge for citi...
Ethics committee raises alarm over ‘predictive policing’ tool
A computer tool used by police to predict which people are likely to reoffend has come under scrutiny from one force’s ethics...
Rising temperatures could be bad news for male loggerhead turtles
