International

London (AP) -- Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has joined a Russian billionaire to launch a major new effort to listen for aliens in the search for extraterrestrial life. Hawking has offered his support to tech entrepreneur Yuri…

Paris, France (AFP) -- Ministers from 10 countries gathered in Paris Monday to launch a common drive to introduce plain cigarette packaging with the aim of stubbing out high smoking rates among young people. Representatives from nations as…

Washington, USA -- On June 17, 2015, the executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Barbados. Real GDP growth remained weak in 2014, weighed down by fiscal drag and stagnant tourism…

New York, USA -- Former Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) president Jeffrey Webb has denied allegations of corruption and bribery in the massive FIFA racketeering investigation and has been bailed but placed under house arrest on a…

Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan is scrapping controversial plans for an expensive new centerpiece stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday. Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid's ultramodern design for the stadium…

Panama City, Panama -- In a move that most observers believe smacks of sheer desperation, attorneys for former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli have filed criminal charges against the remaining judges and magistrates of the Supreme…

Heflin, Alabama (AP) -- A woman was abducted by her husband's mistress in suburban Atlanta and then shot in what authorities called a murder-suicide after a freeway pursuit into Alabama, police said Thursday. Sandra Barnett, 49, of…

Geneva, Switzerland (AFP) -- One of the seven FIFA officials held in Switzerland as part of an investigation into massive corruption at football's governing body has been extradited to the United States, the Swiss justice ministry said…

Miami, USA -- Ryan Bateman, a Canadian national accused of financial malpractice in the Cayman Islands, is evading arrest and extradition after he failed to return to court from a trip to Canada. He is accused of deducting exorbitant…

Paris, France -- The director-general of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, has denounced the killing of three journalists in Honduras, reiterating that crimes against media workers…

Brasilia, Brazil -- From 1-3 July 2015, delegations from 25 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, including The Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, participated in a roundtable for south-south cooperation focused on…

Laurel, United States (AFP) -- An unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by Pluto on Tuesday, making its closest approach in the climax of a decade-long journey to explore the dwarf planet for the first time, the US space agency said. Moving…

(BBC) -- An electronic device has been found by investigators near a petrochemical plant in southern France, where two tanks caught fire after explosions on Tuesday, reports say. A malicious act was already suspected by authorities because…

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (AFP) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday the world was headed for a "generation free of AIDS", after UNAIDS reported a 35-percent drop in new HIV infections from 15 years ago. The positive news was also…

Washington, United States (AFP) -- The White House hailed a bailout deal between the eurozone and Greece on Monday as "a credible step" on the long path to economic growth and debt sustainability in the hard-up country. But Josh Earnest,…