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Black Nazarene draws millions in Manila
Reuters, Published on 09/01/2024
» MANILA - More than six million Catholic devotees in the Philippines turned up for this year’s procession to honour the Black Nazarene, turning the streets of the capital into a sea of maroon and yellow, in a grand display of religious devotion.
Philippines' Black Nazarene feast draws hundreds of thousands of devotees
Reuters, Published on 09/01/2024
» MANILA - The streets of the Philippine capital turned into a sea of maroon and yellow on Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of Catholic devotees joined a procession in honour of the Black Nazarene in Asia's largest Catholic nation.
US YouTuber who staged plane crash jailed for six months
AFP, Published on 05/12/2023
» LOS ANGELES - A daredevil YouTuber who deliberately crashed his plane to boost the number of viewers on his channel and then lied about it to investigators has been jailed for six months after reaching a plea deal, US authorities said Monday.
Life in the crossfire of Venezuela's slums
AFP, Published on 26/07/2021
» CARACAS - A Venezuelan soldier takes cover behind an armored vehicle. For 48 hours he has ducked flying bullets.
US 'Golden State Killer' pleads guilty to multiple murders
AFP, Published on 30/06/2020
» LOS ANGELES - The so-called "Golden State Killer" pleaded guilty to multiple murders Monday, as well admitting to dozens of rapes and kidnappings, drawing a line under a sadistic crime spree that terrorized California for two decades.
Hunger games?: Tennis foot soldiers struggle in time of virus
AFP, Published on 29/03/2020
» PARIS - With careers spent scratching around dusty outposts, sometimes with "just $100" in their pockets, tennis' unheralded army of foot soldiers claim they are struggling to afford food after being made unemployed overnight by the coronavirus pandemic.
Families hold first funerals for Mormon massacre victims
AFP, Published on 08/11/2019
» RANCHO LA MORA (MEXICO) - Relatives began holding funerals Thursday for nine Mormon women and children murdered in northern Mexico, still reeling from pain and anger three days after the massacre.
At least 9 American Mormon community members killed in Mexico
AFP, Published on 05/11/2019
» MEXICO CITY: At least three women and six children from an American Mormon community based in northern Mexico have been killed in an ambush, a relative of the victims said on Monday.
Rabbi wounded in US synagogue shooting says Jews won't be cowed
AFP, Published on 29/04/2019
» POWAY (UNITED STATES) - A rabbi who carried on preaching despite being wounded in the latest deadly shooting at a US synagogue said Sunday that Jews would not be intimidated by the "senseless hate" of anti-semitism.
Ex-cop nabbed for 'Golden State Killer' murders, rapes 40 years ago
AFP, Published on 26/04/2018
» LOS ANGELES - California authorities, after a 40-year manhunt, on Wednesday announced the arrest of a 72-year-old former police officer on suspicion of being the notorious "Golden State Killer," a serial rapist and murderer who terrorised the state in the 1970s and 1980s.