West Virginia has long proclaimed itself “Almost Heaven,” a nod to a song and soaring mountaintop vistas. Now some joke the state name-checked in “Take Me Home, Country Roads” could take things up a notch as Democratic U.S. Sen Joe Manchin bargains
Police clashed with protesters and arrested 31 people in Greece’s second-largest city Monday during a demonstration against a new campus security law. Protesters occupied the principal’s building at the University of Thessaloniki in northern Greece for several hours and the clashes broke
Mr McClain was stopped on 24 August in Aurora, Colorado, after police were told a “suspicious person” was in the area. According to the report, the police had no justification for stopping and confronting Mr McClain, and even less when paramedics decided
Police in Texas arrested an 18-year-old Walmart worker as he walked home in the snow in the middle of the road to avoid the icy sidewalks. Black teenager Rodney Reese was arrested at 10.45pm on 16 February in Plano just north of
Violence erupted on the streets of Barcelona on Sunday for the sixth day in a row as protesters gathered to condemn the jailing of controversial rapper Pablo Hasel. Hasel, 33, was detained last Tuesday at the University of Lleida following a tense
The mayor of Lyon has been accused of harming the health of schoolchildren by taking meat off school lunch menus in the city. The French government criticised mayor Gregory Doucet, from the Green party, after he made the decision to streamline school
Iran has threatened to up its enrichment of uranium to 60 per cent purity, nearly enough to produce a dirty bomb, as the brinkmanship between Tehran and Washington continued ahead of possible talks. “For nuclear propulsion or other works, we may enrich
A suspected oil spill off the coast of Israel has been described by officials there as one of the most severe ecological disasters to hit the country. Chunks of tar began washing up on Israel’s Mediterranean coastline last week and the spill
Iran has threatened to up its enrichment of uranium to 60 per cent purity, nearly enough to produce a dirty bomb, as the brinkmanship between Tehran and Washington continued ahead of possible talks. “For nuclear propulsion or other works, we may enrich
I n August 1991, with a failed hardline coup in fading memory, thousands of Muscovites ended a pro-democracy march at Lubyanka Square with a gesture that would come to frame the moment of history. The toppling of the 11-ton statue to Felix
I n August 1991, with a failed hardline coup in fading memory, thousands of Muscovites ended a pro-democracy march at Lubyanka Square with a gesture that would come to frame the moment of history. The toppling of the 11-ton statue to Felix