London transit riders no longer have to worry about putting their bus tickets through the wash, now that they can load money onto the LTC’s smart-card technology. The stored value cards, which have been used by monthly pass holders for years, became available to ticket passengers on Monday. Customers can get a smart card from […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Michael Calvey, the U.S. founder of one of Russia’s biggest private equity firms, denied allegations of fraud in a Moscow court on Friday but a judge ordered him to be detained for 72 hours, a move that could raise concerns among foreign investors. Calvey, senior partner at Baring Vostok, was first detained […]

WARSAW (Reuters) – The United States aims to “get as far down the road as we can” ahead of a summit with North Korea in Vietnam this month, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday. Pompeo said he was sending his team back to Asia in the coming days for further discussions around […]

Minister Ayelet Shaked says keeping Israel’s Jewish majority is justified, even ‘at the price’ of rights violations. Israel must safeguard a Jewish majority even at the expense of human rights, the country’s justice minister has said in a speech defending a bill that would legally define Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people” […]

The state of emergency declaration comes a day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned amid social unrest. Ethiopia has declared a state of emergency a day after Hailemariam Desalegn, the country’s prime minister, abruptly resigned. The measure was announced on Friday by the Council of Ministers, the Ethiopian government’s cabinet, according to state broadcaster EBC. Local media said […]

The central American nation is still considered one of the safest in the region – but the growing violence is causing concern among people ahead of elections. Costa Rica’s rapidly rising murder rate is another issue weighing on the minds of many voters ahead of elections. Last year saw the highest ever number of homicides. […]

KABUL (Reuters) – While negotiations between Taliban insurgents and U.S. envoys fuel dreams of peace in Afghanistan, the squatter village of Pul-e Shina highlights the tough realities ahead if the country is to re-build after years of war. In the shadows of mountains east of the capital, Kabul, families recently displaced by fighting join others […]

WARNING: This post contains disturbing content. Please read at your own discretion. Tommie, the dog that was tied to a pole in a Virginia park and intentionally set on fire, has died of his injuries, breaking the hearts of many who followed the dog’s road to recovery this week. According to the Richmond Animal Care […]

The country preacher who took his message worldwide, preached to more people than anyone else and broke traditional barriers has died. We take a look at his life. The US preacher who carried his Christian evangelist message around the globe for more than six decades has died. Billy Graham was 99. Through broadcasts and mass […]

Citing a lack of sufficient evidence, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has overturned the lifetime doping bans placed on 28 Russian athletes by the IOC. Twenty-eight Russian athletes have had their lifetime bans from Olympic sport overturned – just over a week away from the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. Although this is not […]