By The Associated Press
For many Vietnamese, a job in a Western European country is seen as a path to prosperity worth breaking the law. But the risks of doing so are high and the consequences can be deadly, as the discovery of 39 bodies in a truck in England last week p…
Published: November 1, 2019 at 12:06AM
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By The Associated Press
Fishing regulators accused Virginia on Thursday of allowing a company that makes fish-oil supplements to exceed catch limits on a fish that’s an important link in the Chesapeake Bay’s food chain.
Published: October 31, 2019 at 05:57PM
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By The Associated Press
Tennessee wide receiver Jauan Jennings has orchestrated a personal turnaround over the last two years, becoming one of the Volunteers’ most popular players after getting himself kicked off the team.
Published: October 31, 2019 at 05:33PM
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By Reuters
Saudi Arabia has freed 19 Iranian fishermen detained 10 months ago by the kingdom’s coastguard, an Iranian official was quoted as saying on Thursday, following talks between the two regional rivals.
Published: October 31, 2019 at 03:12PM
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By Reuters
Saudi Arabia has tried to attract foreign capital into its non-oil sector and pursue investments abroad as part of Vision 2030, an ambitious plan to diversify its crude-reliant economy.
Published: October 30, 2019 at 07:18AM
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By Elisabeth Goodridge
The sharing economy has made it possible to be even more demanding, on demand. We tested apps for when you need a swim, a nap, a boat or a foodie experience.
Published: October 30, 2019 at 05:00AM
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By Sui-Lee Wee
For the poor in Vietnam, human smuggling offers a chance at a better life. “If an electrical pole had legs, it would go too.”
Published: October 30, 2019 at 03:00AM
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By The Associated Press
A man who authorities say drove his family off a Los Angeles pier, killing his two severely autistic sons to collect insurance money, has been convicted of 14 federal charges.
Published: October 29, 2019 at 10:31PM
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By The Associated Press
The family of a player on the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Olympic champion men’s hockey team says concussions and blows he received during his playing career have contributed to his current legal troubles.
Published: October 29, 2019 at 10:50AM
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By Reuters
Saudi Arabia has tried to attract foreign capital into its non-oil sector and pursue investments abroad as part of Vision 2030, an ambitious plan to diversify its crude-reliant economy.
Published: October 29, 2019 at 10:35AM
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By Reuters
The first hydropower dam on the lower Mekong River began commercial operations in Laos on Tuesday amid protests from villagers in Thailand who say the Xayaburi Dam and several others in the works will destroy their livelihoods.
Published: October 29, 2019 at 05:59AM
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By Campbell Robertson
A white supremacist was convicted of horrible crimes. But victims’ family members, the prosecutor and the judge have all said the death sentence was too arbitrary to justify.
Published: October 29, 2019 at 05:00AM
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By Unknown Author
A year before the election, we drove through the South, meeting with religious leaders, small-business owners, educators, farmers and local representatives to talk about what brings us together.
Published: October 28, 2019 at 05:36PM
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By Reuters
The countryside in the Vietnamese provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh is dotted with billboards for labor export companies advertising jobs or study overseas.
Published: October 28, 2019 at 01:35PM
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By Reuters
Britain has sent dossiers to Vietnam, seeking its assistance in identifying four of the 39 people found dead in a truck container outside London last week, the government of the southeast Asian nation said on Monday.
Published: October 28, 2019 at 03:11AM
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By The Associated Press
Holding his breath for 90 seconds, Arivaldo Sousa dives to depths of up to 65 feet (20 meters) to haul lobsters from the seafloor off Bahia state, one of tens of thousands of fishermen who make a living from the rich waters in one of Brazil’s top …
Published: October 27, 2019 at 01:14PM
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By The Associated Press
On the heels of a bold call by Amazon region bishops for married men to become priests, Pope Francis is urging openness to new ways, and in a possible slap at conservative critics who fear he is weakening the Catholic church’s foundations, he caut…
Published: October 27, 2019 at 06:17AM
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By The Associated Press
The stories of people who survived Superstorm Sandy, scrawled in their own handwriting, are an integral part of a new art exhibit remembering the deadly storm and the devastation it caused seven years ago.
Published: October 27, 2019 at 07:59AM
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By Reuters
Police in Vietnam took hair and blood samples on Sunday to get DNA from relatives of people feared to be among the 39 who died in the back of a truck near London last week, their family members said.
Published: October 27, 2019 at 06:20AM
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By The Associated Press
Catholic bishops from across the Amazon called Saturday for the ordination of married men as priests to address the clergy shortage in the region, an historic proposal that would upend centuries of Roman Catholic tradition.
Published: October 26, 2019 at 01:41PM
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By Sarah Firshein
There’s no place like home for the holidays. But there’s also no place like a half-empty beach resort in shoulder season, or a European city right before Christmas.
Published: October 26, 2019 at 05:00AM
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By Reuters
The majority of the 39 people found dead in the back of a truck near London were likely from Vietnam, a community leader from the rural, rice-growing community where many of the victims are believed to have come from told Reuters on Saturday.
Published: October 26, 2019 at 03:56AM
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By Unknown Author
Catherine Porter discusses the time she spent reporting in Cape Dorset, a place that struggles despite producing more artists per capita than big cities.
Published: October 25, 2019 at 04:05PM
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By David Gelles
Ed Stack took over Dick’s Sporting Goods from his cantankerous father. He has now turned it into an unlikely force in the gun debate.
Published: October 25, 2019 at 05:00AM
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By Reuters
The Philippines will lift a 2018 moratorium on foreign scientific research in its exclusive economic zone so it can exploit marine resources, the national security adviser said on Friday.
Published: October 25, 2019 at 04:20AM
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By The Associated Press
In the closing days of World War II, a Japanese American set out with other men from the infamous internment camp at Manzanar on a trip to the mountains, where he went off on his own to paint a watercolor and got caught in a freak summer snowstorm…
Published: October 24, 2019 at 10:47AM
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By Jason Horowitz
The suspense mounted at the world’s largest regatta in Trieste, Italy: Which boat would come in last?
Published: October 24, 2019 at 05:00AM
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By Alex Crevar
In this appealingly gritty port city you’ll find seafood, Austro-Hungarian architecture and, next year, a full roster of events celebrating Rijeka’s turn as a European Capital of Culture.
Published: October 24, 2019 at 05:00AM
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By The Associated Press
A federal judge has granted a temporary stay of execution to a man convicted in Florida of stabbing and drowning a 14-year-old girl.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 05:02PM
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By The Associated Press
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission said Wednesday the government must renew payments to fishermen who were ordered to stop using nets in order to save the last few vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise and the most endangered marine…
Published: October 23, 2019 at 04:35PM
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By Benjamin Weiser and Azi Paybarah
During an appeals court hearing, the judges expressed skepticism about the president’s bid to block a subpoena for his tax returns.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 11:05AM
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By Reuters
Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump and New York state prosecutors trying to obtain Trump’s tax returns faced off in a federal appeals court Wednesday.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 01:59PM
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By The Associated Press
A human skeleton retrieved from California’s second-highest mountain this month may be the remains of a Japanese-American man who died in 1945 as part of a fishing party from the Manzanar internment camp.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 01:53PM
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By Tess Thackara
Carolina Caycedo’s artwork examines the social and environmental impact of harnessing rivers to generate power.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 05:01AM
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By Laurel Graeber
Using augmented reality, virtual reality and installations of light and art, the creators of this pop-up exhibition hope to inspire action on climate change.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 05:01AM
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By Regina Townsend
Even when it ends with a healthy baby, a long struggle to conceive may exact a brutal toll.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 08:41AM
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By Reuters
The animosity between Japan and South Korea is entwined with the history of Japan’s 1910-45 occupation of the Korean peninsula, the mobilisation of forced labour at companies and women in wartime brothels, and a row over the ownership of islets in…
Published: October 23, 2019 at 06:26AM
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By Jill P. Capuzzo
With new luxury housing and a $256 million PATH station, the Hudson County city is hoping to turn itself into a place millennials want to call home.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 05:01AM
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By Laurel Graeber
Using augmented reality, virtual reality and installations of light and art, the creators of this pop-up exhibition hope to inspire action on climate change.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 05:01AM
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By Audra D. S. Burch
At Chalmette High School in Louisiana, students in a world history class made their case for or against punishing President Trump.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 05:01AM
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By Tess Thackara
Carolina Caycedo’s artwork examines the social and environmental impact of harnessing rivers to generate power.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 05:01AM
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By Alex Williams
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist, talks about phytoplankton, plastic straws and the best fish to eat.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 05:01AM
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By N. R. Kleinfield
The life and times of a stock-car-racing announcer.
Published: October 23, 2019 at 05:00AM
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By The Associated Press
Indonesian President Joko Widodo named his defeated election rival, a former general linked to human rights abuses, as his defense minister Wednesday and added entrepreneurs and technocrats to his Cabinet to address slowing growth in Southeast Asi…
Published: October 22, 2019 at 10:47PM
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