Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday ordered plans for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic stadium to be ditched amid public anger over its $2 billion price tag. The decision means the organisers of the 2019 Rugby World Cup will have to find a new venue for the final. “I have decided we must go back to the drawing board,” Abe told reporters after meeting top Japanese sports officials.
BERLIN (AP) — The bailout of Greece took several big strides forward Friday after German lawmakers overwhelmingly gave their backing to another financial rescue and the European Union confirmed it would get Athens enough money to avoid an imminent debt default.
Residents in a chic Rome suburb and a northern Italian village staged angry anti-immigrant protests on Friday, with villagers setting mattresses ablaze in a bid to stop authorities from housing migrants. Authorities in the village of Quito plan to accommodate 101 immigrants in empty apartments, but several residents broke into one of the buildings, removed camp beds, mattresses and televisions intended for the newcomers and set them on fire outside.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine Jewish are renewing denunciations of a government plan to work with Iran to investigate Argentina’s worst terrorist attack.
Yahoo’s Bianna Golodryga and guests break down what we know about Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.
Twenty-four hours after a deadly shooting spree that began at one military recruitment center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and ended at another, details are starting to emerge about the four Marines who were killed in Thursday’s attack.
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has awarded actor John Hurt a knighthood for services to drama in his 40-year career.
The presidential candidate says the Democrat’s economic plan would stifle innovation.
Three years after 12 died and 70 were injured in a Colorado movie theater, James Holmes is found guilty.
By Rich McKay CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are investigating trips that the suspect in the fatal shootings of four Marines in Tennessee took to the Middle East, including at least one to Jordan and a possible visit to Yemen, a source close to the probe said on Friday. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, identified as the shooter by the FBI, was shot to death in a rampage on Thursday
