India's first semi-high speed train broke down on Saturday after colliding with a cow on the tracks, a day after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi inaugurated the new passenger service ... “The train later experienced technical issues and was stranded on the way to Delhi,” Indian Railways spokeswoman SmitaVats Sharma told AFP ... Explore ... ....
Jim Carrey came out swinging at Donald Trump with his latest political cartoon. Actor-artist Carrey took a shot at Trump Saturday, gifting fans with a cartoon reflecting on Trump’s recent decision to declare a national emergency in an effort to build a wall along the U.S. border, and the president’s fondness for hitting the links....
AURORA, Ill. — A 15-year employee being fired from a suburban Chicago manufacturing company started shooting Friday, killing five co-workers and wounding five police officers before he was killed by police, authorities said ... — which makes valves for industrial purposes — in the city about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Chicago ... ....
The phrase “national emergency” conjures up images of riots in the streets and burning cities, a disease pandemic killing millions, or an inter-planetary invasion by little green men from Mars. Donald Trump’s national emergency, over his thwarted plans to build a border wall with Mexico, is prompted by none of these horrors ... “It’s an invasion ... ....
French police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who threw projectiles and set bins on fire in Paris, Lyon and Bordeaux on Saturday, as the 14th straight weekend of "yellow vest" protests took a violent turn in the afternoon ... The ministry's estimate in Paris was 4,000 protesters, compared with 5,000 last week. ....
US-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State’s last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the battle commander said on Saturday, bringing its self-declared caliphate to the brink of total defeat ...Iran on Saturday rejected accusations of antisemitism leveled against it by US Vice PresidentMike Pence, saying it respected Judaism... ....
A memorial to German philosopher and political theorist Karl Marx has been vandalised for the second time within two weeks. The words ‘Doctrine of Hate’ and ‘Architect of Genocide’ were written across the Highgate Cemetery grave in bright red paint ... Karl Marx’s grave has been vandalised for the second time in two weeks (Picture. PA) ... PA) ... Advertisement....
A shipment of humanitarian aid by the United States that flew out of Miami landed in this Colombian border city on Saturday as part of efforts in response to the humanitarian crisis in neighboring Venezuela... and nearly to 60 other countries. Trump plans to address the Venezuelan crisis during a gathering in Miami on Monday. Sign Up and Save ... SHARE ... By ... ....
An executive with Amazon on Friday invited Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezDem lawmaker rips opposition to Amazon going into New York...Dave Clark, Amazon's senior vice president of worldwide operations, extended the invitation while pushing back on claims about conditions at the company that Ocasio-Cortez had shared on Twitter....
A university in St Petersburg has partially collapsed, according to Russian state news. Several walls have falled inside the building and emergency services fear that people are trapped under the debris ... Subscribe now. ....
AmericanTheodore McCarrick, 88, who resigned from the Vatican's College of Cardinals in July, is the first cardinal ever to be defrocked for sex abuse ... McCarrick, 88, who resigned from the Vatican's College of Cardinals in July, is the first cardinal ever to be defrocked for sex abuse ... He currently lives in Kansas. - Sex with adult seminarians - ... ....
Former U.S.Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, said on Saturday he had not yet decided whether to run for president in 2020 but would do so "in the near term" ...Biden, who served two terms as vice president after decades in the U.S ... ....
The US on Saturday said Pakistan “must crack down” on Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and “all terrorists operating from its territory”, mounting pressure on Islamabad in the wake of “reprehensible” Pulwama attack ...Bolton made these observations in a tweet after speaking to his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval....
Around 200,000 people have marched through Barcelona against the high-profile trial of Catalan separatist leaders that started this week, which they dismiss as a farce ... Demonstrators waved blue, red and yellow Catalan separatist flags and carried banners reading "Freedom for political prisoners." ... "What's happening is really sad ... ....