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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Forget everything you think you know about the new "Ghostbusters" movie....
MILAN (AP) -- Survivors described being thrown forward violently and then freeing themselves from a tangle of metal and body parts after two Italian commuter trains collided head-on Tuesday in the southern region of Puglia, killing at least 22 people and injuring scores more....
DADAAB, Kenya (AP) -- Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai visited the world's largest refugee camp on her 19th birthday Tuesday and voiced concern that Kenya's plans to close it could create "a generation lost."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Loretta Lynch steadfastly defended her decision to close the Hillary Clinton email investigation without criminal charges, insisting Tuesday that she simply accepted the unanimous recommendation of career FBI investigators and attorneys....
Within moments of Theresa May's confirmation as the next prime minister of Britain, London tabloids and wags were comparing her to Britain's "iron lady" of the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher. But those taking a closer look see more in common with Europe's most powerful woman today: Germany's "iron chancellor," Angela Merkel....
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- With hugs and handshakes, Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on Tuesday and emphatically told his supporters their "political revolution" must now turn to electing his Democratic former rival....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kaylin Luces found herself in a difficult position last week: In one moment, she was texting her sister, a police officer, telling her, "Be careful out there. Cops are getting shot." In another, she sent a text to her two young nephews to be mindful of how they act when in the presence of police....
DALLAS (AP) -- At a memorial for slain police officers, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that a week of deeply troubling violence has appeared to expose "the deepest fault lines of our democracy." But he insisted the nation is not as divided as it seems and called on Americans to search for common ground in support of racial equity and justice....
(Vatican Radio) A cessation of hostilities appears to be holding in South Sudan following President Salva Kiir’s appeal after a resurgence of violence in the country’s capital of Juba.Forces loyal to president Kiir and vice president Riek Machar resumed fighting last Friday on the eve of the country’s fifth year of independence.Since the outbreak of violence more than 300 people, including UN peacekeepers, have been killed and thousands have been displaced within the capital, raising concerns that violence will spread throughout South Sudan.Many fear that the country is on the brink of falling back into a civil war.Georgia Gogarty spoke to Angela Wells, the communications officer for Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Eastern Africa, who described the current circumstances in Juba and the terrible situations the South Sudanese people are finding themselves in.Listen: Angela Wells has described the situation as “dire” with many fearing that the country...
There was no letup in flood misery in Madhya Pradesh and Assam with most parts of Central and Eastern states of India facing unprecedented very heavy rainfall.Incessant rains in the past five days have killed at least 22 people in India's Madhya Pradesh state, displacing hundreds of others and submerging homes, schools, hospitals and mission stations."Hundreds of houses, churches, schools are flooded displacing people. Mission stations are flooded in many parts of the state," said Father Maria Stephen, public relations officer of Bhopal Archdiocese based in the state capital with the same name. The rains, reportedly the heaviest in 43 years, have flooded the entire city, he said.Father Stephen said the natural calamity "is a painful situation" for the church in the state but "we cannot do much for affected people" owing to negligible numbers and limited financial sources. Nearly 70,000 people are left homeless as water rose to dangerous levels alo...
