Swiss customs officers seize 8 suitcases of elephant ivory bound for China
Swiss customs officials have seized around 262 kilograms (578 pounds) of elephant ivory destined for China in a random check on three Chinese passengers… Read More ›
Swiss customs officials have seized around 262 kilograms (578 pounds) of elephant ivory destined for China in a random check on three Chinese passengers… Read More ›
Super Typhoon Soudelor is taking aim at Taiwan and China, threatening damaging winds, destructive storm surge and flooding rains. The storm’s winds peaked Monday at… Read More ›
Twitter’s stock plunged by more than 15% last week after leadership gave Wall Street an ugly report on the state of the company. The sell-off… Read More ›
Thomas Piketty — the French economist who took the economics world by storm last year with his landmark tome “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”… Read More ›
Being nice isn’t always a good thing. As teen customers continue to flee the brand, Abercrombie has taken several steps to change its image… Read More ›
Helena, MT – Two young Orthodox rabbis have traded their studies in Brooklyn for the back roads of Montana, where they are teaching the… Read More ›
Washington – Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has fired a staffer after racially charged and insulting Facebook posts under his name came to light, a person… Read More ›
Washington – Donald Trump, widely believed to be the wealthiest American ever to run for president, is nowhere among the ranks of the country’s… Read More ›
WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative Republican who was disciplined earlier this year by House Speaker John Boehner is pushing a largely symbolic effort to… Read More ›
Twitter beat Wall Street’s Q2 financial targets but the company’s gloomy outlook for user growth sent the company’s stock skidding. Shares of Twitter, which… Read More ›
Hempstead, TX – Texas authorities on Tuesday released several hours of video footage showing Sandra Bland during her three days in jail, saying they… Read More ›
Washington – A Florida man has been charged in an alleged backpack bomb plot he planned to carry out on a public beach in… Read More ›
Washington – A conservative Republican who was disciplined earlier this year by House Speaker John Boehner is pushing a largely symbolic effort to strip the… Read More ›
Kabul, Afghanistan – A wedding in Afghanistan turned deadly Sunday night when a gunfight broke out, killing 21 people, an Afghan official said. Two armed… Read More ›
A Nepalese man has confessed to the murder of a young boy after saying a local holy man advised him that a human sacrifice… Read More ›
Bogota, Colombia – For some 13 years, Malory Mejia has not known exactly what happened to her brother. He disappeared in 2002 and she and… Read More ›
Palestinians say 14 injured in clashes following burial of Mohammed Abu Latifa in Qalandiya A funeral for a Palestinian man killed while running from… Read More ›
Preempting protests, special forces commandeer buildings barricaded by Jewish settlers after court orders their destruction Hundreds of Israel Police special forces stormed illegally constructed… Read More ›
Republican presidential hopeful says ‘mushroom cloud over Israel’ unacceptable to him, questions Democratic candidate’s will to confront Tehran Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee on… Read More ›
While there have been some mildly-positive signs for China’s economy in recent weeks, that has come to a shuddering halt today. The Caixin-Markit China… Read More ›