May 24, 2017 Parents of Otto Warmbier, US citizen detained in North Korea, want son to be part of negotiations As tensions between the United States and North Korea mount over the defiant dictatorship’s rogue atomic weapons program, the parents of the imprisoned American Otto Warmbier told Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ on Monday they can't let their son's story get lost amid the nuclear noise.
May 24, 2017 2 men in Indonesia caned dozens of times for gay sex Two men in Indonesia's Aceh province have been publicly caned dozens of times for consensual gay sex, a punishment rights advocates denounced as "medieval torture" and escalates an anti-gay backlash.
May 24, 2017 Pacific island has 38 million pieces of trash, but no people When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches.
May 24, 2017 AP Exclusive: Kushners tap China's $24B 'golden visa' market When the sister of President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner promoted investment in her family's new skyscraper from a Beijing hotel ballroom stage earlier this month, she was pitching a controversial American visa program that's proven irresistible to tens of thousands of Chinese.
May 24, 2017 Australian minister calls for tougher rules on refugees Australia's immigration minister on Tuesday urged tougher refugee rules that would deport refugees who took vacations in countries where they claimed to fear persecution.
May 24, 2017 The Latest: Security Council condemns NKorea missile test The latest on North Korea's missile launch (all times local): 7:55 a.m.
May 24, 2017 New Zealand's ambitious plan to save birds: Kill every rat New Zealand has set itself an environmental goal so ambitious it's been compared to putting a man on the moon: ridding the entire nation of every last rat, opossum and stoat.
May 24, 2017 Australian state apologizes to men convicted for gay sex An Australian state parliament has apologized to hundreds of men convicted for having homosexual sex as the government introduced legislation to throw out their criminal records.
May 24, 2017 New Zealand ratifies Pacific trade deal after US withdrawal New Zealand has become the second nation after Japan to ratify a Pacific trade deal that will need changes to proceed after the United States pulled out.
May 23, 2017 Australian senator breastfeeds baby on floor of Parliament An Australian senator has made history by breastfeeding her infant daughter on the floor of the country's Parliament.