Blast heard from Baghdad's Green Zone, cause unclear: Reuters witnesses BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A blast was heard in Baghdad late on Wednesday coming from the fortified Green Zone which houses government buildings and foreign embassies in the Iraqi capital, Reuters witnesses said. The cause was not immediately clear. An Iraqi soldier stationed in the Green […]

A group of kids shattered a Brooklyn synagogue’s window during Rosh Hashanah prayers by chucking a milk crate and a metal object at it, police said. The four suspects went up to the house of worship on Throop Avenue near Bartlett Street in Williamsburg at about 5:30 p.m. on Monday and one of them hurled […]

Police found £520million worth of gold hidden in a Chinese official's home during an anti-corruption raid, reports say. Detectives also reportedly discovered an astonishing £30billion in suspected bribes in the bureaucrat's bank account, which would make him the richest man in China. Zhang Qi, 58, has been sacked from his position as secretary of the […]

LONDON (Reuters) – A new Brexit plan from Prime Minister Boris Johnson would likely win enough support to be approved by Britain’s Parliament, senior minister Michael Gove said on Wednesday, adding that Brussels should take confidence from that. The British Parliament rejected three times an earlier Withdrawal Agreement struck by former Prime Minister Theresa May, […]

Raging Trump swears and fulminates in besieged White House Wednesday was a weird day to be a visiting president of Finland at the White House: the ceremonial greeting, the Oval Office chat… and Donald Trump fulminating about enemies and jockstraps. Seated in front of the beautiful Oval Office fireplace, President Sauli Niinisto and Trump outwardly resembled […]

Manhattan-bound drivers beware: the city’s prohibition against most cars along eight blocks of 14th Street begins Thursday. In an effort to speed up buses, the city plans to limit access to the busy crosstown corridor between Third and Ninth avenues from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. to large trucks and vehicles making local deliveries or […]

MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the “father of the nation” Mahatma Gandhi on the 150th anniversary of his birth at his memorial in New Delhi on Wednesday. Alongside political figures, school children, and the public also assembled at the memorial to pay their respects. India observes Oct. 2 not […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The proposal made on Wednesday by Britain for a deal on its departure from the European Union included “positive advances” but there are still “some problematic points that will need further work in the coming days”, the European Commission said. Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a […]

Jeffrey Epstein bragged about calls with Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, claimed he was ‘gaming the stock market by studying mating patterns of termites’ and referred to Prince Andrew as ‘Andy’ Jeffrey Epstein had a tendency to name drop and make claims that were hard to substantiate, according to those who had dealings with the pedophile  […]

A Virginia teacher who refused to use male pronouns to refer to a transgender student is now suing his former school, claiming he was wrongfully fired. Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at West Point High School was terminated last year after saying he couldn’t “in good conscience” use the pronouns his student preferred, according to […]