It was just before 3 p.m. on a sunny but windy day last week on a beach on the south side of Barbados when Emma Bassermann and Zoe Meklensek-Ireland finished boogie boarding. Emma, a competitive swimmer who trains with the Dorval swim club, was on a...
A Florida woman holding her 11-month-old son in a baby carrier was fatally shot by her 14-year-old brother while trying to defuse an argument over Christmas gifts he was having with a 15-year-old brother who also was armed, authorities said. The 15-year-old brother then shot...
A federal judge heard diverging arguments Wednesday about the humaneness and risks of execution by nitrogen gas as he weighs whether to let Alabama attempt the nation's first use of the method. Attorneys for Kenneth Eugene Smith are asking a judge to block his January 25...
Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store — the same issue that went to trial in a another case that could result in even bigger changes. Although...
Pope Francis says he wants to be buried in the Rome Basilica of St Mary Major, not in the grottoes of the Vatican like other popes, so he can be near his favourite icon of the Madonna. Francis, who turns 87 on Sunday, also said he...