General News

Washington (AFP) - SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket blasted back into space on Thursday night to ferry the US military's secretive X-37B drone to a research mission.  After weeks of delays,...

London (AFP) - Global stock markets mostly dipped on Tuesday, the first trading day of the year, as a global equity rally stumbled and oil prices briefly jumped as tensions...

New York (AFP) - A bustling central New York street was shrouded in vapor when a pipe carrying steam for heating homes and businesses unexpectedly failed on Wednesday, partially closing...

New York (AFP) - Preliminary shopping data indicated that US holiday sales increased 3. 1 percent compared with the year-ago period, a solid but unspectacular increase reflecting mixed sentiment on...

Moscow (AFP) - The Kremlin on Tuesday acknowledged a Ukrainian attack had damaged a warship in the occupied Crimean port of Feodosia in what Ukraine and its Western allies called...

Vatican City (AFP) - People donned Santa caps on beaches, ski slopes and streets around the globe on Monday to celebrate Christmas, as Pope Francis called for an end to...

Cocoa Beach (United States) (AFP) - Santas of all stripes descended on Florida's Cocoa Beach this Christmas Eve -- not to deliver presents, but to ride some waves and raise...

Washington (AFP) - A 32-year-old woman from Alabama who was born with two uteruses and became pregnant in both gave birth to twin girls on different days, she announced on...

New York (AFP) - Manhattan's Tenement Museum already preserves the history of some immigrants who shaped New York City -- from destitute Irish fleeing the great famine to Jewish survivors...

Miami (AFP) - A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty Friday in a US federal court to conspiracy to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was shot dead in 2021 in...