Germany’s Carnival season gets under way on Monday, with tens of thousands of revellers expected once again in the western city of Cologne, one of the main locations for Carnival fun. The season kicks off annually in Germany on the 11th day of the 11th month – November 11 – at 11:11 am and ends […]

MIAMI (AP) — Rafael has weakened into a low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico after barreling across Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane last week. Rafael weakened into a tropical storm Saturday and dissipated into a remnant low on Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The center said Sunday that […]

The Russian military has once again tried to break through the Ukrainian lines of defence around the town of Kurakhove on the edge of Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region. Of a total of 108 Russian attacks along the front in eastern Ukraine, 39 were on the Kurakhove section, the general staff in Kiev said in its […]

HUEHUETOCA, Mexico (AP) — Gunmen open fired in a bar in central Mexico killing 10 people and injuring seven, a local official said. The attack took place Saturday in the historic city center of Querétaro in a region that had long been spared the violence seen in neighboring states like Guerrero. In recent years, however, […]

ROME (AP) — Italy’s former national carrier Alitalia has started procedures for the collective dismissal of its remaining 2,059 employees, its administrators told unions. The move comes as the successor to bankrupt Alitalia, ITA Airways, faces hurdles in its merger plans with German Lufthansa. According to Italian media reports, merger talks stalle