Category Archives: World
Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after Tennessee failed execution, her attorneys say
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is awake and speaking at a hospital, her lawyers said Tuesday, six days after the state's failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection left her unconscious...
Oct 6, 2026
Washington resident conspired with Canadian school shooter before attack, officials say
SEATTLE (AP) - Federal authorities said Tuesday that they have arrested and charged a 30-year-old from Washington state with encouraging an 18-year-old to commit one of the worst school shootings in C...
Oct 6, 2026
California couple arrested on child abuse charges in horrifying surrogacy probe
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An extremely wealthy Chinese immigrant and his wife amassed a brood of 21 children through a surrogacy scheme and raised them in a "house of horrors," prosecutors alleged Tuesday. G...
Oct 6, 2026
Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claims
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - A former high-ranking Department of Justice official will look at how Cornell handles sexual misconduct complaints, university trustees announced Tuesday as they tried to address a...
Oct 6, 2026
UK police arrest a 7th man in connection with a security incident at a US-run air base
LONDON (AP) - British police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in London on suspicion of a terror offense over a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that authorities have ...
Oct 6, 2026
Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe off...
Oct 6, 2026
Nigerian Air Force says plane carrying 25 crashed with no survivors in southern Ondo state
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - There were no survivors among 25 people on board a Nigerian Air Force plane that crashed Monday in southern Nigeria's Ondo state, officials said. The ATR-42 aircraft crashed whil...
Oct 6, 2026
Bulgarian PM says drone attack on 2 commercial vessels is 'blatant violation of international law'
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said two commercial vessels were struck by drones on Tuesday in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member's exclusive economic zone in...
Oct 6, 2026
Kenya confirms first Ebola case after traveler from Congo dies in Nairobi
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan authorities on Tuesday confirmed the country's first imported Ebola case from Congo, making Kenya the latest country affected by the fast-moving outbreak. Health Minister ...
Oct 6, 2026
Ex-spy chief is arrested in Germany on suspicion of trading state secrets and treason
BERLIN (AP) - A former head of Germany 's foreign intelligence service was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion that he had passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor's...
Oct 6, 2026