The Associated Press VATICAN CITY–The Vatican is drafting guidelines to help Catholic dioceses find appropriate ways to decommission unneeded churches so they don’t end up as discos, gymnasiums or gelato shops. The Vatican’s culture ministry is teaming up with Rome’s Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University and the Italian bishops’ conference to […]
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The Associated Press MIAMI–A homeless South Florida man with no arms has been charged with stabbing a Chicago tourist. Miami Beach police say 46-year-old Jonathan Crenshaw held a pair of scissors with his feet and stabbed 22-year-old Cesar Coronado just after midnight early Tuesday. The Miami Herald reports that Crenshaw […]
By Ken Moritsugu The Associated Press YOKOSUKA, Japan — Not just one, not just two, but three generations of McCains are now honoured on a U.S. Navy ship in the Pacific. The secretary of the Navy added U.S. Sen. John McCain’s name Thursday to a warship that had already been […]
By Jonathan Lemire And Jill Colvin The Associated Press BRUSSELS — Under fire for his warm embrace of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump jolted the NATO summit Wednesday by turning a spotlight on Germany’s ties to Russia and openly questioning the value of the military alliance that has defined […]
By David Rising The Associated Press BERLIN — The steady drum of anti-German rhetoric from the United States, one of the country’s traditionally closest friends, has people wondering whether to get ready for a messy breakup. First, it was then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign trail contention that Chancellor Angela Merkel was […]
By Emily Schmall The Associated Press MATAMOROS, Mexico — An MS-13 gang member left eight voicemails on Brenda Mendez’s cellphone demanding that she turn over her teenage boy. If she refused, he said, the gang would dismember both her sons. “I’m going to send you a finger from each hand. […]
The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is drafting guidelines to help Catholic dioceses find appropriate ways to decommission unneeded churches so they don’t end up as discos, gymnasiums or gelato shops. The Vatican’s culture ministry is teaming up with Rome’s Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University and the Italian bishops’ […]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON–U.S. President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a solidly-conservative, politically-connected judge, for the Supreme Court, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle with Democrats as he seeks to shift the nation’s highest court ever further to the right. A favourite of the Republican legal establishment in Washington, Kavanaugh, […]
The Associated Press MAE SAI, Thailand–A daring rescue mission in the treacherous confines of a flooded cave in northern Thailand has saved all 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped deep within the labyrinth, ending a gruelling 18-day ordeal that claimed the life of an experienced volunteer diver […]
The Associated PressRod McGuirk CANBERRA, Australia–Wildlife rangers said today that they had trapped a 4.7-metre-long (15-foot) saltwater crocodile–the largest they had ever caught in the northern Australian Katherine River and in an upstream region popular with tourists that is thought relatively safe from the killer predators. Northern Territory Parks and […]
The Associated PressSeth Borenstein WASHINGTON–The centre of our galaxy is teeming with black holes, sort of like a Times Square for strange super gravity objects, astronomers have discovered. For decades, scientists theorized that circling in the centre of galaxies, including ours, were lots of stellar black holes–collapsed giant stars where […]
By Kaweewit Kaewjinda And Stephen Wright The Associated Press MAE SAI, Thailand – All 12 boys and their soccer coach have been rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand, the Thai navy SEALs said Tuesday, ending an 18-day ordeal that riveted people around the world. The SEALs, who were […]
