(CNSNews.com) – Former GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) joined with Senate Democratic women Thursday in calling for the emergency funding of Zika virus research, saying it is just a matter of time before there is a Zika transmission from mosquitoes inside the U.S. Rubio said he visited Florida last week and met with […]
GIBRALTAR (AP) — Gibraltar’s authorities have joined air-travel industry leaders in calling for the small British territory on Spain’s southwestern tip to be included in the European Union’s laws governing European aviation. Joseph Garcia, Gibraltar’s Civil Aviation Minister, says Saturday that Gibraltar is legally entitled to inclusion “by virtue of our terms of membership of […]
LONDON (AP) — A woman from Wales cannot name her baby daughter Cyanide, a British court ruled Thursday. The woman, whose name cannot be published for legal reasons, has infant twins and wants to name her son Preacher and her daughter Cyanide, saying the poison is a “lovely, pretty name” with positive associations because it […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — To astronomers’ relief, NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has won another reprieve. The spacecraft slipped into emergency mode last week nearly 75 million miles from Earth. Ground controllers managed to stabilize the probe Sunday, and NASA announced the good news Monday. Engineers still don’t know what went wrong and will study […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries are meeting in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on Sunday and Monday. Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier was to miss the first day sessions due to aircraft problems at departure. Here are five things to know about the annual gathering of the top […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Amnesty International says there was a dramatic 54 percent increase in executions globally in 2015, with Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia responsible for nearly 90 percent of the killings. The human rights organization said that the figure of at least 1,634 people executed last year — up from 1,061 in 2014 […]
PATNA, India (AP) — The Indian state of Bihar completely banned the sale of alcohol on Tuesday, including at bars and hotel across the state. The state government had announced an end to sales of locally brewed liquor last week and said a complete ban would be phased over six months. However Nitish Kumar, the […]
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government says it will stick to its policy of not possessing nuclear weapons, after U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump said he would be open to the idea of Japan and South Korea having their own atomic arsenals. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters Monday that the country’s “three principles […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans are increasingly taking to social media to post videos of bad civic behavior, led by two social media “heroes” who wield comedy and confrontation to expose lazy cops, litterers, threatening bodyguards and arrogant drivers. Arturo Hernandez, who heads a band of volunteer YouTube celebrities known as the “Super Civicos,” uses […]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Was that really Chris Christie, the take-a-back-seat-to-no-one governor of New Jersey? Christie’s seemingly shell-shocked gaze as he stood behind Donald Trump on Super Tuesday is generating befuddlement and mockery in his home state and beyond. Conservatives and liberals alike have piled on. To some, the usually tough-talking Christie looked like a […]
