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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- The 10-year-old son of a Kansas state lawmaker died while riding a waterslide that's billed as the world's largest, according to officials and the boy's family....
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The threat of violence by people inspired by foreign extremists invokes fear in a majority of young Americans across racial groups. But for young people of color, particularly African-Americans, that fear is matched or surpassed by worries about violence from white extremists....
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber killed at least 67 people and wounded dozens more in an attack that struck a government-run hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday, police and doctors said....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- American Lilly King has her sights set on winning Olympic gold and she's not about to let anyone get in her way, especially not world champion breaststroker Yulia Efimova of Russia. King made that clear in a finger-waving display worthy of Dikembe Mutombo as she disparaged the Russian for doping....
LONDON (AP) -- Delta Air Lines canceled around 300 flights Monday after its computer systems crashed worldwide, stranding thousands of passengers on a busy travel day....
(Vatican Radio) After twenty weeks and 143 posts, including a number of videos, Pope Francis’ Instragram account has now reached more than three million followers. Unlike the Pope’s Twitter account, which goes out in nine different languages, there is only one official Instagram account. Each post, though, is subtitled in numerous languages.Followers of @franciscus can follow, day by day, the activities of the Holy Father thanks to photos of official events produced by the photography team of L’Osservatore Romano.Speaking at the launch of the Pope’s Twitter account earlier this year, the Prefect of the Secretariat for Communications, Monsignor Dario Viganò said the decision to open an Instagram account arises from the Pope’s conviction that pictures can reveal many things that words can’t. The aim of this papal Instagram account, he said, is to tell the story of the Pontificate of Pope Francis through images.
(Vatican Radio) Voters in Thailand have approved a new Constitution. The text gives the military greater veto power over elected officials, and as Alastair Wanklyn reports, it also allows for promoting Buddhism as the state religion.Listen: Just over half of voters cast ballots, with three in five of them approving the new text, which will create a Constitution to replace the one thrown out in a military coup two years ago.The referendum was seen as the greatest test yet of public opinion on the rule of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan Ocha, who seized power, he said, to end turmoil between the government and opposition.When the new Constitution is enacted it will bar politicians from office if they have been convicted of corruption. It will also give unelected lawmakers, including those appointed by the military, significant veto power over politics.The new Constitution will allow Thais to identify with any religion, but it will require the government to “promote” Bu...
(Vatican Radio) Landslides due to Tropical Storm Earl have killed 38 people in Mexico, with the death toll expected to rise.James Blears reports from Mexico: Prior to hitting Mexico, Tropical Storm Earl, killed nine people. Six died in the Dominican Republic when falling power lines hit their bus; three drowned in Haiti, when their boat capsized.But Mexico has suffered the brunt of Earl. Twenty eight are confirmed dead in the remote village of Huauchinango in Puebla State, while Authorities in Veracruz State confirm ten more deaths, due to landslides engulfing homes with tons of thick, cloying mud. Mexican troops in olive green fatigues, wearing white arm bands are working around the clock, digging, sifting and clearing a deluge of mud and debris, and uncovering buried buildings. Many roads and highways have been closed, due to flooding, which has led to severe structural damage. The true extent of the crisis is yet to be fully known, as many more remote and isolate settlements re...
(Vatican Radio) The government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has declared a state of emergency Sunday in parts of the capital Skopje hit by torrential rain and floods that authorities say left at least 21 people dead, with six others missing. Thousands more remain in need of aid and that the stormy weather has spread to other parts of the Balkans.Listen to Stefan Bos’ report: Security forces try to help desperate people. Their homes have been flooded in what the mayor of Macedonia's capital has called “the worst Skopje has ever seen.” The deadly deluge created hazardous rainfall accumulations within only 20 minutes. Mayor Koce Trajanovski called it a water bomb. Dozens are reportedly killed and many more injured.Some residents try to return to their flooded homes. "I have nothing now. Everything I has been flooded. Everything I have been building for sixty years has been destroyed," a crying woman said. POLICE SEARCHINGPolice and...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- "Go to bed," my grandmother implored. "It is late, and these Olympics are very far away."...
