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BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania’s health ministry says the agriculture ministers of Romania and Kuwait are receiving hospital treatment for minor injuries after being involved in a car crash. The ministry said Agriculture Minister Achim Irimescu and Kuwaiti counterpart Ali Saleh Al-Omair sustained head injuries Thursday morning in southern Romania after the car they were traveling […]

BERLIN — Business confidence in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, has dropped unexpectedly as managers’ assessment of both their current and future situations darkened following Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, a survey showed Thursday. The Ifo institute’s confidence index fell to 106.2 points for August from 108.3 in July. Economists had predicted a slight […]

MANILA, Philippines — A Filipino fisherman in western Palawan island has found possibly the world’s biggest pearl, which he had hidden under a bed for more than 10 years as a lucky charm, a tourism official said Thursday. Aileen Amurao, Puerto Princesa city’s tourism officer and the fisherman’s relative, said Thursday the man gave her […]

BNEI BRAK, Israel — Hillary Clinton may become the president of Israel’s most important ally, but her image is banished from a significant swath of the country’s media: the ultra-Orthodox press whose deeply conservative readership chafes at images of women. Clinton’s nomination as Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency is casting light on a longstanding […]

AMATRICE, Italy — Rescue crews raced against time Thursday looking for survivors from the earthquake that leveled three towns in central Italy, but the death toll rose to 247 and Italy once again anguished over trying to secure its medieval communities built on seismic lands. Dawn broke over the rolling hills of central Lazio and […]

BAGAN, Myanmar — It was a time of conquest and conversions. Above all, it was a time of construction, on a scale never seen before. Over 250 years, from the 11th century onwards, the rulers of Bagan built more than 10,000 magnificent religious monuments. The stupas, temples and monasteries became the defining emblems of Bagan, […]

BOYLSTON, Mass. — The towering, whimsical shapes Patrick Dougherty creates by twisting and weaving sticks together have gained him an international following. Now, the artist who lives in a log cabin near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is back in New England to build two more of his almost cartoon-like stick sculptures. Since the early 1980s, […]

Painting at Washington Middle School took 2 years to complete

Former Rio Rancho veterinarian faces 22 counts of animal cruelty

Ten minutes after Wednesday's heartbreaking extra-inning loss in the middle of the pennant race that ...