Category: 4. World

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Exit tourists. Enter cardinals.

The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next pope after the death of Pope Francis on April…

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said on Monday that a US airstrike in the Sadaa governorate struck a prison holding African migrants, killing at least 68 people and wounding more.

The rebels’ Civil Defense organization said 47 others had been wounded…

Majdi Nema, also known as Islam Allouch, only planned to stay in France for a few months. The Syrian had come as part of an exchange program at the Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic Worlds at Aix-Marseille University in the…

Majdi Nema, also known as Islam Allouch, only planned to stay in France for a few months. The Syrian had come as part of an exchange program at the Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic Worlds at Aix-Marseille University in the…

Some 180 competitors took part in the 64th German finger wrestling championship on Sunday in the town of Pang in the southern state of Bavaria, about an hour’s drive southwest of Munich.

Known in German as Fingerhakeln, finger wrestling is…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A 30-year-old man was charged with multiple counts of murder on allegations he killed 11 people when he rammed a crowd of people at a Filipino heritage festival in

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The smells of crispy lumpia, caramelized plantains and other Filipino street foods beckoned attendees of a Vancouver festival as they flooded out of a concert on an…

Drag’s biggest stars have paid tribute to Jiggly Caliente, the RuPaul’s Drag Race star who helped champion Asian representation on the reality television show.

The Filipina-American transwoman, whose real name is Bianca Castro-Arabejo, died early…

Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu festival, meant to be a celebration of Filipino pride, ended in a wail of sirens and screams on Saturday.

Eleven people – the youngest just five – died and many more were hospitalised after a man drove an SUV through the…

A 27-year-old university student who climbed Mount Fuji outside of its official climbing season was rescued twice in four days, after he returned to look for his mobile phone.

The Chinese student, who lives in Japan, was first rescued by…