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NEW YORK (AP) -- The typical CEO at the biggest U.S. companies got an 8.5 percent raise last year, raking in $11.5 million in salary, stock and other compensation last year, according to a study by executive data firm Equilar for The Associated Press. That's the biggest raise in three years....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday pushed for elusive peace between Israel and the Palestinians, calling on both sides to put aside the "pain and disagreements of the past."...
MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- For the young crowd of music fans, the Ariana Grande concert was supposed to be a night of high-energy candy pop and fun on a school night. The scene quickly turned into sheer terror when a bomb went off at the end, sending terrified parents into a desperate search for their loved ones....
MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- The Latest on the blast at an Ariana Grande concert in northern England (all times local):...
MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up as young concert-goers left a show by the American singer Ariana Grande in the northern English city of Manchester, killing at least 22 people, some wearing the star's trademark kitten ears and holding pink balloons as they fled....
Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the "Charlie Bit My Finger" video...
(Vatican Radio) A deadly terror attack at a concert venue in Manchester, England, where singer Ariana Grande had been performing for a crowd of mostly teenagers. At least 22 people are dead, while 59 others have been injured.Police investigation as terror incidentManchester Police chief Constable Ian Hopkins made a statement in which he said authorities are treating the incident as a terror attack.Describing the attack as "the most horrific incident," Greater Manchester had ever faced, Hopkins said the invesitgation is "fast-moving" and working to establish whether the attacker "was acting alone or as part of a network."Over 400 officers of the Greater Manchester police force were on duty throughout the night.8 hospitals in the Greater Manchester area are treating victims.Election campaign suspendedBritish Prime Minister Theresa May has suspended campaigning in the UK general election, and has called a meeting of the Government’s emergency ...
(Vatican Radio) The Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, has released his prepared remarks to the first of two panel discussions of issues surrounding sustainable development and poverty eradication, in connection with the Global Compact on safe, orderly and regular migration. Please find the full text of Archbishop Auza's prepared remarks below*********************************************************Intervention of H.E. Archbishop Bernardito AuzaApostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United NationsGlobal Compact on safe, orderly and regular migration:Informal Thematic Session on Addressing drivers of migration, including adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters and human made crisis, through protection and assistance, sustainable development, poverty eradication, conflict prevention and resolutionPanel 1: Sustainable Development and Poverty EradicationNew York, 22 M...
Karamlesh, Iraq, May 23, 2017 / 12:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Martin Baani was just 24 years old when he risked his life as a seminarian to rescue the Blessed Sacrament from the imminent invasion of Islamic State terrorists in his hometown.Now, he is returning to his native village as a priest, ready to serve the people through the Eucharist.On August 6, 2014, Baani received a call from a friend who warned that a nearby village had fallen into the hands of ISIS, and that his hometown of Karamlesh would be next.Baani promptly headed to the San Addai church and took the Blessed Sacrament, to prevent the jihadists from desecrating it. That day, he fled in a car along with his pastor, Fr. Thabet and three other priests.“I was the last one to leave Karamlesh, with the Blessed Sacrament in my hands,” he told the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need.Despite threats from ISIS, Baani chose to stay in Iraq instead of fleeing with his family to the United States. He continu...
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The search for 12 jurors and six alternates for Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial is off to a brisk start even though a third of the initial jury pool had an opinion about Cosby's guilt or innocence and an equal number said they or someone close to them had been sexually assaulted....
