The Thai zoo home to baby hippo and internet sensation Moo Deng is patenting the pygmy
Only a month after Thailand’s adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable both domestically and internationally. Zookeeper ...
Jimmy Carter receives Holbrooke award from Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation
Less than two weeks before his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, which has ...
The Vatican is set to rule on reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at a Bosnian shrine
The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent years: the reported “apparitions” of the Virgin Mary in ...
At least 1000 people evacuated as flooding hits northern Italy
About a thousand residents were evacuated in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna after it was hit by torrential rains and severe flooding overnight, local media reported ...
Is Israel preparing for a war with Hezbollah?
With Israel’s defense minister announcing a “new phase” of the war and an apparent Israeli attack setting off explosions in electronic devices in Lebanon, the specter of ...
Stock market today: Asian markets forge higher after Fed’s first rate cut in over 4 years
Asian markets forged higher on Thursday after the Federal Reserve kicked off its efforts to prevent a recession in the U.S.
Yankees clinch playoff berth by beating Mariners 2-1 in 10 innings
A year ago, the New York Yankees were knocked out of playoff contention with a week to go in the regular season, ending a string of six straight postseason appearances. Remembering ...
North Korea’s Kim is bolstering nuclear and conventional weapons after testing 2 types of missiles
North Korea said Thursday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised successful tests of two types of missiles — one designed to carry a “super-large conventional warhead” and ...
Vietnamese real estate tycoon, already sentenced to death for fraud, faces trial on new charges
The second trial for Vietnamese real estate typcoon Truong My Lan — who was sentenced to death for financial fraud in April — started on Thursday, state media reported. The ...
A news site that covers Haitian-Americans is facing harassment over its post-debate coverage of Ohio
Journalists at a news site that covers the Haitian community in the United States say they’ve been harassed and intimidated with racist messages for covering a fake story ...
Inside the Brooklyn federal jail where Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is locked up: violence, squalor and death
Fighting to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs out of jail after his sex trafficking arrest, the music mogul’s lawyers highlighted a litany of horrors at the Brooklyn federal lockup where he ...
JJ Wetherholt drives in game-winning run to win league championship in first pro season
Former WVU baseball All-American JJ Wetherholt’s first season in pro baseball baseball ended successfully late Wednesday night in Florida. Wetherholt and the Palm Beach Cardinals defeated ...