Four miners who had been trapped underground for 36 days in a collapsed Chinese gypsum mine have been rescued, state media is reporting. The operation to save the men trapped more than 200 metres underground took two hours as they were hauled up to the surface one by one in a narrow capsule, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Dramatic footage ...

The prime minister is understood to be seriously considering plans to welcome 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children to the UK within the next few weeks. It comes as the development secretary Justine Greening confirmed the government is looking at what more it can do to help children “across the coming days and weeks”. David Cameron is thought to be looking at ...

&amp;amp;lt;img class=”Maw(100%)” src=”https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/BzaYdaRPss6hPuEJs6H4KA–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/wp_tumblr_migration_provider_889/701458bf017fc2df3d00ef32207c784d”/&amp;amp;gt;<span id=”mce_marker” data-mce-type=”bookmark”>​</span> A Pittsburgh man used his dying wish to make a political plea to his fellow Americans: don’t vote for Donald Trump. By now, The Donald has made his candidacy for the Republican nomination well known, and he’s leading the competition in polling despite (or perhaps because of) his often controversial ideas on everything from immigration ...

Are South Sudanese People Aware of This Fact? WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG It’s an issue many intellectuals are asking and worrying about as they watch the leaders of that new nation fight themselves for more power and wealth while ignoring the fact that more than half of the South Sudan children are not enrolled in schools. This is outrageous ...

A relative calm prevailed over the Greek island of Kos by the time photographer Jörg Brüggemann landed there in August. The site of overloaded dinghies carrying migrants from the Aegean Sea became less common. Riots began dwindling. Only a few relics from the crisis remained: rows of deflated boats and scattered life vests strewn over the island’s white sand. It ...

Attackers raided a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso overnight, shooting some and taking others hostage in a siege that lasted hours and ended with dozens of people dead. An al Qaeda-linked terrorist group claimed responsibility for the assault at Splendid Hotel — a popular meeting place for Western diplomats in the capital, Ouagadougou. The attack began Friday night and dragged ...

ratcheted up as South Korea responds to its northern neighbor’s latest antagonism. The South reactivated its propaganda speakers near its heavily fortified border with North Korea on Friday following Pyongyang’s announcement about its purported H-bomb test earlier in the week. Seoul announced that, as of midday Friday local time (10 p.m. Thursday evening ET), it has resumed broadcasting propaganda using ...

Evidence of an unfolding famine in the Syrian city of Madaya continues to mount, with the international rights group Amnesty International publishing accounts of people trying to survive on boiled water and leaves. Except that now that it’s winter, the leaves are gone. Even more chilling is the idea that Madaya may not be the exception in Syria today, after ...

Moms and dads across America aren’t the only ones with a shopping list for the holiday season. Several lawmakers and presidential candidates have their own list of military programs they’re looking for the U.S. to acquire to bolster America’s military prowess. Despite the fact that the U.S. military already spends more than any other country’s armed forces, these politicians and ...

Sometimes a historic moment arrives like an IMAX movie: a big, loud, jarring event that bends the arc of history. Other times, though, it sneaks up on people. It seems modest at the time, but only later do Americans realize it marked a turning point — that something new had burst onto the national stage and the old rules no ...