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Inquiry: Sales of concert tickets a 'fixed game'

[2016-01-30 08:20]

Had a hard time getting a ticket to a concert or sporting event? New York's attorney general said that's probably because more than half of tickets to many events are held for industry insiders or otherwise unavailable to the general public.

Life a struggle for afflicted family at Zika epicenter

[2016-01-30 08:20]

Around the fifth month of her pregnancy, Daniele Ferreira dos Santos fell ill with a high fever and angry red splotches on her skin.

Chinese vessel with advanced sonar to join MH370 search

[2016-01-30 08:20]

China will join the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 by sending a sonar vessel to the search area in the southern Indian Ocean, Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said on Friday.

President wants rebels off terror list

[2016-01-30 08:20]

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is asking the United States to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia from its list of terrorist organizations and suspend drug warrants against guerrilla commanders to help him seal a peace deal with the insurgency.

Tremors in New Jersey caused by sonic boom, not quake

[2016-01-30 08:20]

A fighter jet from a US Navy base in Maryland may have caused a series of sonic booms near the New Jersey coast that prompted hundreds of residents to report earthquake-like tremors on Thursday.

IN BRIEF (Page 9)

[2016-01-30 08:20]

The United Nations said on Friday it had allegations that peacekeepers from Georgia, France and another unnamed country sexually abused children while deployed in the Central African Republic.

Model throws her book at fashion world

[2016-01-29 07:57]

It was the stuff of dreams: walking down a Paris street one day to walking the runway as a top 20 model in the world's fashion capital.

Film academy reforms spark new round of protests

[2016-01-29 07:57]

Since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it was altering membership rules in response to an outcry over the diversity of its voters and nominees, another uproar has erupted around Hollywood.

Holocaust victims remembered

[2016-01-29 07:57]

Dozens of elderly Holocaust survivors lit candles at Auschwitz on Wednesday, exactly 71 years after the Soviet army liberated the death camp that has become the most powerful symbol of the human suffering inflicted by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Teen accused of planning to plant bomb in kangaroo

[2016-01-29 07:57]

An Australian teenager facing terror charges allegedly discussed stuffing a kangaroo with explosives, painting it with the Islamic State group symbol and setting it loose on police, media reported on Thursday citing court documents.

Magical town preserved by UNESCO 'loses soul', locals

[2016-01-29 07:57]

It is officially described as the best-preserved city in Southeast Asia, a bygone seat of kings tucked into a remote river valley of Laos. Luang Prabang weaves a never-never land spell on many a visitor with its tapestry of French colonial villas and Buddhist temples draped in a languid atmosphere.

Source: Advice to prosecute PM Najib rejected

[2016-01-29 07:57]

Malaysia's anti-graft agency had recommended that Prime Minister Najib Razak be charged with criminal misappropriation, a source said, amid growing outrage after the premier was cleared of any offenses in a multimillion-dollar scandal.

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