Paul Ryan warms to Donald Trump, but only so far
Paul McGeough 4:24 PM Like Cold War enemies, the GOP factions go to the November 8 general election asking Americans to believe they have retreated from the brink of mutually assured destruction.
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'National salvation' govt proposed for Brazil
Brazil's acting president called for a "government of national salvation" after a Senate impeachment vote suspended President Dilma Rousseff from office.
God has a plan for 70-something's baby son
Amrit Dhillon 3:39 PM If anything will help one of India's oldest mothers, septuagenarian Daljinder Kaur Gill, to raise her baby boy, it won't be energy drinks, age-delaying pills, or yoga.
World's oldest person dies in New York
4:26 PM One of 11 siblings from Alabama, Susannah Mushatt Jones saw two turns of centuries.
Personal data of Chinese big wigs leaked
For a few brief hours this week, China had its own answer to WikiLeaks: a mysterious Twitter account that posted the personal information of dozens of the country's most prominent people, including billionaires.
Ancient Egyptian mummy of tiny fetus
British archaeologists dug up the tiny coffin in Giza, Egypt, nearly 100 years ago, and new CT-scans show the remains are actually that of a fetus.
Top Hezbollah chief 'killed in Israeli air strike'
3:35 PM Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in an Israeli air strike at the Lebanese-Israeli border this week, the Lebanese Shiite group announced on Friday.
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'It's none of your business,' says Donald Trump when asked about his tax rate
1:01 AM US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pushed back on Friday against renewed calls for him to release his tax returns before the election.
European Union says its new border controls are working
Robert-Jan Bartunek and Gwladys Fouche 12:29 AM The number of migrants arriving in Greece dropped 90 per cent in April, says the European Union border agency.
Who is Asia's nuclear-armed problem child?
David Wroe 12:15 AM More than four years into his reign, the younger Kim remains a dangerously unknown quantity.
Paul Ryan warms to Donald Trump, but stops short of endorsement
Paul McGeough 4:24 PM Like Cold War enemies, the GOP factions go to the November 8 general election asking Americans to believe they have retreated from the brink of mutually assured destruction.
'This is the worst crisis in our history'
Megan Levy 4:13 PM When the gaze of the world focuses on Brazil for the Olympic Games, the spectacle will mask a country that is in turmoil.
Iran halts participation in annual hajj pilgrimage as relations with Saudi sour
Paul Schemm 1:48 PM Iran announced Thursday it will suspend its participation in the annual hajj, the pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia that is a religious duty for all Muslims, in the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the two Middle Eastern heavyweights.
Obama administration weighs in on transgender toilets battle
Julie Hirschfeld Davis 12:00 PM In the middle of a legal fight with North Carolina over transgender rights, the Obama administration is planning to issue a sweeping decree telling every public school district in the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.
Parents find dead newborn while making teen daughter's bed, police say
Lindsey Bever 11:56 AM Authorities are investigating after a newborn was discovered dead in the bed of his 17-year-old mother, who said she did not know she was pregnant until she gave birth.
Why mother fed deadly drug cocktail to her severely disabled daughter
Lindsey Bever 11:14 AM Bonnie Liltz had reached a desperate moment, it seemed.
Brazil's new acting leader Michel Temer mistakes a journalist for Argentina's Mauricio Macri
11:02 AM Brazil's interim President Michel Temer, who took over on Thursday after Dilma Rousseff was suspended as the country's leader, mistook a journalist interviewing him for a radio program for Argentina's President Mauricio Macri.
US Secret Service to investigate Donald Trump's former butler for threats to Obama
Daniel Victor 10:49 AM The Secret Service plans to investigate Donald Trump's longtime butler over Facebook posts laced with vulgarities and epithets calling for President Barack Obama to be killed.
Lying in wait to kill his wife
Kelly Dennett 9:53 AM An Auckland grandfather laid out two lengths of rope and three knives in his hallway then lay in wait for his wife to return home from church so he could kill her, a court has heard.
Russian rhetoric goes nuclear as US opens missile defence system
Andrew E. Kramer 7:52 AM The Russian reaction to the opening of the system included mulling the prospect that Romania, the host nation, might be reduced to "smoking ruins."
Brazil's removed Dilma Rousseff vows fight
Lisandra Paraguassu and Alonso Soto 6:13 AM Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vowed to fight to prove her innocence after the Senate voted to put her on trial for breaking budget laws.
Elizabeth Warren emerges as slayer of Donald Trump on Twitter
Ashley Parker 3:03 AM A liberal, 66-year-old first-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts, seems to have come up way to rattle the New York billionaire - attack him on his home turf, Twitter.
Pope Francis to look at giving women increased Church role: report
2:02 AM VATICAN CITY, May 12 (Reuters) - Pope Francis has agreed to set up a commission into whether women could serve as deacons, local media reported on Thursday, a potentially historic move that could end male dominance of the Roman Catholic clergy.
Securency manager walks free after time spent in Brazil hellhole jail
Nick Miller Ex-manager of banknote company sentenced to 30 months' jail for bribing official at Nigeria's mint.
Rousseff impeachment: Senate votes to send president to trial
Lia Timson After more than 20 hours of speeches, the Brazilian Senate has voted in favour of suspending President Dilma Rousseff.
Neighbourhood watch volunteer to auction gun that killed unarmed teen
Steph Solis George Zimmerman, the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, is selling the gun he used.
