9+ hour, 36+ min ago   (323+ words) CORON, Philippines — Rescuers retrieved more remains from a passenger ferry in the Philippine that was gutted by fire, bringing the death toll on Saturday to 76 with 13 missing. Forty-three people survived the fire on Wednesday night among the 132 on board. The…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (430+ words) SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's National Intelligence Service said it is trying to determine if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has an older son while reaffirming its assessment that his daughter is the likely heir to the nation's leadership....

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (581+ words) WASHINGTON — Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus....

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (127+ words) WSOC TV Fire on passenger ferry in Philippines leaves dozens missing and at least 5 dead MANILA, Philippines — A fire broke out on a passenger ferry in waters off the western Philippines, leaving dozens of people missing, the coast guard…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (721+ words) Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said Wednesday that Saudi-backed forces had launched dozens of airstrikes overnight across four Yemeni provinces, after rebel attacks on Saudi Arabia ignited fires at several oil facilities and wounded dozens of people. Separately, Iranian state…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1005+ words) MIAMI — Flight data suggest an Amazon cargo plane tried to abort an unsteady landing at Miami International Airport before smashing into a van and killing five people inside, according to information investigators released Tuesday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators will…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (639+ words) A Virginia mother was convicted of allowing her 5-year-old son to walk outside in their gated community alone. Karyann Parkinson and her son Sam were out walking together as the child collected goose feathers on June 5. Parkinson, who was weeks…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (286+ words) A woman in Missouri was sentenced to probation instead of jail time after she was convicted of endangering the welfare of a child, a felony. Breanda Deutsch, 71, was initially sentenced to seven years behind bars and three years of state-supervised…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (225+ words) STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — A beloved high school coach in eastern Ohio died on Friday after he was struck by lightning while cutting his lawn, according to the National Lightning Safety Council. Joe Pierro, 60, of Steubenville, became the 14th lightning strike fatality this…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (742+ words) LONDON — The U.K. government said Tuesday that it's banning trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where it says "settler terrorists" are carrying out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said that the U.K. will ban…...