Actor John Heard, best known for playing the father in the hit 90s-era "Home Alone" films, has died, according to US media. He was 72. Entertainment website TMZ said the actor was found dead in a...
Rockers Blink-182 on Saturday called off stadium shows they had planned with Linkin Park whose singer Chester Bennington hanged himself. The bands, two of the top-selling rock acts at the turn of the...
It looks like Madame Tussauds has bowed to social media pressure and removed its latest Beyonce waxwork. The model in New York got members of the Beyhive around the world talking. Some said the...
US attorneys in New York are dropping the cases against Julien Grout of France and Javier Martin-Artajo of Spain (seen in 2013), who were accused of being key figures in covering up $6.2 billion (5.7...
European stock markets ended the week down as the euro extended its gains on Friday after the European Central Bank said it would reassess its monetary policy stance in the autumn, fueling talk that...
Sean Spicer, who resigned Friday after a stormy six months as White House press secretary, was tapped to be Donald Trump's spokesman even though he was not a member of the president's inner circle....
A minor derailment on New York's beleaguered subway system forced the evacuation Friday of 135 passengers to a nearby Brooklyn station, causing delays, suspensions and compounding customer misery,...
On Saturday, July 15th, the FACE List Awards, the biggest celebration of pan-African achievement, took place in NYC. Pioneers and trailblazers such as world renowned Civil Rights Leader Rev. Dr. Al...
Jim Henson, the relentless innovator who gave the world Kermit the Frog and "The Muppet Show," is getting a permanent tribute in New York, nearly 30 years after his death. If rarely seen on camera,...
At least seven people are believed to have died in Auckland this month after using synthetic cannabis, New Zealand police said Friday, warning users to stay away from the drug. Police said synthetic...
On a thin strip of land at the bay of Luederitz in southern Namibia are dozens of gravestones bearing the names of each German soldier killed during a largely forgotten colonial war. Nearby is a...
US entrepreneur Elon Musk said Thursday he'd received tentative approval from the government to build a conceptual "hyperloop" system that would blast passenger pods down vacuum-sealed tubes from New...
Deep under Shanghai, workers on a flood-lit construction rig carefully install massive concrete wall sections for a new subway tunnel, adding metre-by-metre to the world's longest metro system. The...
The euro rose Thursday after European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi's comments bolstered the single currency even as interest rates were kept low again. Draghi avoided details on when the ECB might...
UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Thursday he plans to meet with Chinese officials to push for assurances that the widow of late dissident Liu Xiaobo will be allowed to leave China. Zeid...
The Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Professor Gyimah Boadi has been awarded the 2017 Martin Luther King Award for Peace and Social Justice by the US Embassy in...
Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, who overcame a troubled childhood to top the charts with an angry but melodic brand of metal, was found dead Thursday in an apparent suicide. He was 41....
Like hundreds of thousands of other Iraqis, Maha lives with her boys at a camp for the displaced near Mosul. But there's a big difference -- her father and husband worked and fought with the Islamic...
Six Syrian actors battled a fraught US visa process to tread the boards in New York this week, seeking to impress on American theater goers the human cost of a war raging halfway round the world....
Emirates has announced it will increase the frequency of flights between Dubai and Khartoum from five to seven a week starting 8 August, 2017. As with Emirates’ current flights between the two...
