Hungarian police launch criminal probe into boat accident, 21 still missing
There are 21 people still missing after a boat carrying South Korean tourists capsized on the Danube river in the Hungarian capital late on Wednesday,...
Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes off El Salvador coast: USGS
An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck off the coast of El Salvador on Thursday, 40 km south of La Libertad, the U.S. Geological Survey said....
WikiLeaks’s Assange too ill to appear via video link in extradition hearing
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is too ill to appear via a video link from a British prison in a hearing on an extradition request from...
Taliban says progress made at Afghan talks in Moscow but no breakthrough
A Taliban official said on Thursday that decent progress had been made at talks with a group of senior Afghan politicians in Moscow but that...
Flying vehicle touted as Southern California traffic tonic
Developers unveiled a hover craft billed as the first flying vehicle to be powered by hydrogen fuel cells on Wednesday in Southern California, in a...
Kill off specter of no-deal Brexit, UK’s Hammond warns next PM
Britain’s finance minister on Thursday warned those in his party vying for Prime Minister Theresa May’s job that a no-deal Brexit would imperil the economy...
Center ground of UK politics is under threat, finance minister warns
The center ground of British politics “is under threat”, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Thursday in a speech at the launch of a review...
The Pentagon’s worried about China’s rare earths
Rare earth elements are used in a wide range of consumer products, from iPhones to electric car motors, as well as military jet engines, satellites...
Fifty bright sparks vie for national spelling bee crown
Fifty young spellers, winnowed down from hundreds of contestants, will battle it out on the last day of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday...
How U.S. sanctions over a Russian weapon could rattle Turkey
Turkey is on the cusp of facing U.S. sanctions over its decision to buy a Russian S-400 missile defense system, leaving its already soft currency...
