April 2016
Panel: Pregnant women, get whooping cough shot
ATLANTA (AP) -- An expert panel is urging every expecting mother to get a shot preventing whooping cough, preferably in the last three months of her pregnancy to help protect her baby.The advice fo
Eat more chocolate, win more Nobels?
Take this with a grain of salt, or perhaps some almonds or hazelnuts: A study ties chocolate consumption to the number of Nobel Prize winners a country has and suggests it's a sign that the sweet t
Jim Bacon of Yosemite National Park selected to head National Park Of American Samoa
Jim Bacon has been selected as the new superintendent of National Park of American Samoa, located on the islands of Tutuila, Ofu, and Ta‘u in a remote part of the South Pacific.
Kiwi cop's body home today
The body of a Kiwi police officer who died following an assault in a Tongan police cell is expected to return to New Zealand this afternoon.Constable Kali Fungavaka died in hospital surrounded by f
THE RACE: Non-vets Obama and Romney court US vets
The race between President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney marks the first time since World War II that neither major-party candidate has had any military experience.The president and
Digicel launches world's first biometric identification system for international money transfers
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Digicel Pacific Limited, a mobile network operator across the Pacific and a division of Digicel Group, today announced it is deploying biometric enabled payment systems into
Archaeologist finds oldest rock art in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- An archaeologist says he found the oldest piece of rock art in Australia and one of the oldest in the world: an Aboriginal work created 28,000 years ago in an Outback ca
Misconduct alleged against Secret Service agents
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Alleged misconduct by a dozen Secret Service agents sent to provide security for President Barack Obama in Colombia threatened to overshadow his diplomatic mission to La