A family that traces its bloodline to America’s first enslaved Africans will gather at its cemetery to reflect on their arrival 400 years ago. The family is holding a reflection Friday at the Tucker Family Cemetery in Hampton, Virginia. The reflection is one of several events commemorating the Africans’ 1619 arrival to what is now […]

The man who presides over New Zealand’s parliament has been called a baby whisperer. He was in action again this week, gently rocking, bottle feeding and burping a colleague’s infant as a lawmaker ranted about gas prices. Speaker Trevor Mallard held baby Tutanekai for about 15 minutes during a fiery general debate Wednesday after spotting […]

A man is suing his estranged wife for ‘every penny’ he spent on her son after discovering the eight-year-old was not his. He has taken her to the High Court after it came to light the boy was fathered by someone she had an affair with. The DailyMail UK reported the man has been barred […]

An EasyJet pilot has been banned from flying holiday jets out of the UK after he told friends that he was suicidal. According to DailyMail report, the pilot is believed to have claimed that his ‘life is s***’ and that he would ‘probably’ kill himself, leading to concerned friends informing his bosses. EasyJet immediately grounded […]

Ukraine’s president backed leading European powers on Thursday in opposing the readmission of Russia to the Group of Seven advanced economies, saying Moscow still occupied Crimea and was frustrating peace in eastern Ukraine, according to Reuters report. United States president, Donald Trump, said on Tuesday it would be “appropriate” to have Russia rejoin what used […]

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said on Friday Pyongyang is ready for both dialogue and confrontation with the United States (US), warning Washington that continuing with sanctions would be a miscalculation, according to state media KCNA. Working-level talks between the United States and North Korea have yet to restart since stalling after the […]

A report released Thursday by Vermont’s Roman Catholic Church found there were “credible and substantiated” allegations of the sexual abuse of minors against 40 priests in the state since 1950. According to the AP News, all but one of those allegations occurred prior to 2000, and none of the priests is still in ministry, the […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has inducted a locally built air-defence system into the country’s missile defence network at an unveiling ceremony in the capital, Tehran. Bavar-373 has been introduced as the country’s first domestically made long-range missile defence system [Credit: Reuters] The display of the new system, Bavar-373, on Tuesday came amid heightened tensions with […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday hit out at EU measures to punish Ankara for drilling activities in the eastern Mediterranean and vowed to press ahead with gas search in the region.

Sexual violence by Myanmar’s military against Muslim Rohingya amounts to war crimes, a UN report said Thursday, adding that conditions are not favorable for refugees to return to the country.