On the same day Russia reiterated its goal of keeping neighboring Ukraine from joining NATO, the military alliance’s chief issued a defiant retort. “Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO,” Secretary…
French protesters entered the Paris stock exchange building with banners and red flares to demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms. (April 20)
Thailand’s prime minister showed off sporting skills in a traditional Thai ball game during a re-election campaign walkabout in a Bangkok park on Thursday.
Many Brazilian soccer teams are increasingly accommodating autistic fans by offering them free tickets, free snacks, hearing protection and sensory rooms. (April 21) (AP Video: Tatiana Pollastri)
A 24-year-old man was in custody Thursday in connection with the shooting of two adults and a child in North Carolina earlier this week, police said. Robert Louis Singletary allegedly…
The maintenance man in North Carolina had just arrived to fix damage from a leak. The teenager in Georgia was only looking for his girlfriend’s apartment. The cheerleader in Texas…
Penny, a 3-year-old sorrel mare with a white blaze, had been slobbering her feed and fighting her bit, signs of a likely toothache. An exam confirmed that she needed two…
The Oakland Athletics have reached an agreement to acquire land near the Las Vegas Strip and said Wednesday that they hoped to be playing games in a new, billion-dollar retractable…
Almost any endurance athlete who has ever gone on a long run has probably, at some particularly vulnerable moment, seen a car whiz by and been tempted, if only for…
It’s a spring ritual: shopping for plants to fill this year’s pots. The first plant I grab always involves a bit of a ritual, too, aimed at preventing impulse buys…