3+ hour, 26+ min ago   (949+ words) PARAKOU – The “Made in Benin” tags on Fatoumata Dosso’s fabrics represent an ambition much bigger than her fashion business: keeping more of the value of Africa’s largest cotton producer at home. The founder of DAF Collection said that the tag…...

11+ hour, 7+ min ago   (475+ words) Stephen Mcgrath And Andreea Alexandru BUCHAREST – Tens of thousands of people gathered in Romania ’s capital Saturday to sit down at a miles-long table to break a Guinness record and raise money for what organizers said will be the country's…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (487+ words) HONG KONG – A Hong Kong court is set to sentence Friday three activists who for years organized vigils in remembrance of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, in a case that is widely seen as a barometer of the city's freedoms as…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (443+ words) NEW YORK – Venezuela’s former first lady wants to be let out of jail while she and her husband await trial on U.S. drug trafficking charges. Cilia Flores, the wife of ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, “deserves the opportunity to await…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (313+ words) BUKAVU – A fire swept through two adjacent schools Thursday in the city of Bukavu in eastern Congo, killing at least 26 students and injuring dozens, the provincial government said. The South Kivu provincial government said in a press release that 19 girls…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (366+ words) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected, the cosmos’ version of a grape shriveling into a raisin under the sun. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Space Research…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (257+ words) WASHINGTON – Slightly fewer Americans filed for unemployment claims last week as jobless claims remain at historically low levels and layoffs are still relatively rare. Filings for benefits dipped to 206,000 last week from a revised 207,000 the week before, the Labor Department…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (708+ words) BANGKOK – Hundreds of people demonstrated outside Israel's embassy in Bangkok on Thursday to demand foreigners show more respect for Thailand's laws and culture as public discontent over bad behavior by visitors has increasingly focused on Israeli tourists. “The era of…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (139+ words) WKMG ‘I was the middleman:’ Orlando woman unknowingly becomes link in reshipping scheme An Orlando woman unknowingly became a pawn in a reshipping scam after taking what she thought was a legitimate work-from-home job, receiving and forwarding packages containing merchandise…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (157+ words) WKMG Dollars & Sense: If you died tomorrow, who pays the bills? When someone a household depends on passes away, the loss can create a financial hole for the people who depended on that income. That’s where life insurance comes in....