Police evacuate Manchester shopping centre
Tuesday, 23 May 2017, 12:57
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Police have evacuated a large shopping center in Manchester, England. Police declined to comment on media reports that they have arrested a man there. July McKenzie, who was shopping when the...
Pope Francis names cardinals for Laos, Mali, Sweden, Spain, Salvador
Sunday, 21 May 2017, 15:48
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
In a surprise announcement Sunday, Pope Francis named five new cardinals, for Spain, El Salvador and three countries where Catholics are a tiny minority: Mali, Laos and Sweden. "Their origin,...
2,100 migrants rescued in Mediterranean, heading to Italy
Saturday, 20 May 2017, 18:25
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Some 2,100 migrants have been rescued at sea to be brought to safety in Italy, the Italian coast guard said Saturday. Among those rescued Friday and early Saturday was a 6-week-old boy, one of...
Man charged after removing transgender woman's testicles
Saturday, 20 May 2017, 05:56
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
A man is facing felony assault charges after police say he used an Army surgical kit to remove the testicles of a transgender woman in her Denver apartment. KUSA-TV...
Updated (3): Car ploughs into Times Square crowd; 1 dead, 23 hurt
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 18:29
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
A man drove the wrong way up a Times Square street at lunchtime Thursday and ploughed into pedestrians on the sidewalk, killing one and injuring 23 others, a law enforcement official...
French president's Cabinet mixes old and new, left and right
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 11:48
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
French President Emmanuel Macron named a mix of prominent and unknown figures from the left and the right Wednesday to make up the government tasked with pushing through his plans to reduce...
Italian police say Mafia skimmed millions from migrant funds
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 16:07
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
The mafia has moved in on one of Italy's few growth industries: caring for migrants. Italian authorities on Monday arrested 68 people, including a priest and the head of a huge Catholic...
Italy police take over four Lidl offices in mafia swoop
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 06:47
Last update: about 9 years ago
Police in the Italian regions of Lombardy and Sicily arrested 15 people and put four management offices of supermarket chain Lidl under state control on Monday as part of a swoop on a mafia gang,...
Man holding human head stabs store clerk; mother found dead
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 06:43
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
A man killed his mother on Mother's Day at a rural Oregon home, then showed up at a grocery store in a nearby town carrying a decapitated human head and began stabbing a checkout clerk before being...