Unlikely apprentice: Obama coaches Trump to be world leader
By JOSH LEDERMAN It’s the last thing President Barack Obama ever expected he’d be doing in his final months in office: Coaching Donald Trump on how to be a world…
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Julian Assangequestioned at Ecuadorean Embassy in London
By GREGORY KATZ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was being questioned by prosecutors Monday at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London about possible sexual misconduct committed in Sweden six years ago. Assange…
Trump election elicits fears, some cheers around the globe
By JIM HEINTZ and GREGORY KATZ World leaders struggled Wednesday to come to grips with a new reality — Donald Trump will be the next U.S. president — and an…
Chemical weapon for sale: China’s unregulated narcotic
By ERIKA KINETZ and DESMOND BUTLER For a few thousand dollars, Chinese companies offer to export a powerful chemical that has been killing unsuspecting drug users and is so lethal…
Pakistani police submit charges in UK woman’s murder case
By MUNIR AHMED Pakistani police submitted initial charges to a court Friday against the father and ex-husband of a British-Pakistani woman accused of murdering her in a so-called “honor killing”,…
UK: Work to begin on Calais wall to stop Channel migrants
By JILL LAWLESS Britain hopes a 4 meter-high (13 foot-high) concrete wall will succeed where security guards and barbed wire have failed, and stop migrants reaching the U.K. from the…
Tensions mount as record numbers crowd French migrant camp
By ELAINE GANLEY Tempers are rising among migrants squeezed in record numbers into a shrinking slum camp in France’s port city of Calais, where they spend hours in line waiting…
Billionaire Richard Branson survives bike crash
By DANICA KIRKA Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson said Friday he thought he was going to die after flying head first off his bicycle in the British Virgin Islands. The Virgin…