In a surprise announcement in Parliament on Tuesday, Attorney-General Deb Frecklington tabled urgent reforms to sentencing and penalties for sexual offences. It follows pressure from the ...

A rescuer helps a group of baby mandarin ducks get out of a willow tree hollow at West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on May 14, 2025. [Photo by Wang Chuan/hangzhou.com.cn] ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For small, landlocked Laos, the ability to generate and sell power across its borders has become “a ...

Premier Li Qiang has underlined the need to strengthen domestic circulation, which he said should be viewed as a strategic move to propel the long-term stability of the Chinese economy. Li made ...

A Morton County jury returned verdicts of not guilty in the case of an Almont man accused of shooting his ex-wife in the leg with a shotgun. Kelly Dittus, 59, was acquitted Wednesday on felony ...

Syracuse, NY. - Andrew Painter allowed just two runs in five innings for his first triple-A win and Justin Crawford smashed his first triple-A homer as the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (30-12) became ...

The first clue is in the name. When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American pontiff and chose Leo XIV as his papal name, the Chicago native made clear his commitment to social ...

The company, which declined to comment, will now undertake due diligence on the site, which is slated to be overhauled as an industrial estate. The move would continue Goodman’s buying spree of ...

GREEN BAY — We’ll have to wait a couple more days to find out where — and against whom — the Green Bay Packers will open the 2025 season, but we know this much already: They won’t have ...

BRIGHTON, Colo. — A woman was killed in a house fire in Brighton Sunday, Brighton Fire Rescue said. The fire was first reported around 11:30 a.m. at a home in the 12000-block of East 132nd ...

The election of John F. Kennedy as U.S. president in 1961, when little Robert Prevost was just six years old and growing up on the outskirts of Chicago, confirmed for the first time to American ...