Sydney - A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea's Bougainville Island on Saturday but there was no risk of a widespread tsunami, seismologists said.The quake, scaled back from an initial reported magnitude of 6.

Washington - Friday, a day after Pres. Barack Obama asked Democrat candidates facing elections in November to campaign on Obamacare, the White House announced another delay on the Keystone XL pipeline project.

Sydney - The Lancet has published a truly appalling report on the subject of violence against healthcare workers. This is now a global plague, and the prognosis is anything but good.

Washington - While no one is predicting Republican landslide, it’s no longer a stretch to say Republicans could win the six seats needed to take over the Senate in November.

Sure we don't want to have our athletes, any males, mistreating women. That's a given and we have to as a society get that message out there and come down hard on men who do. But Colin Kaepernick is under the spotlight for doing - nothing.

- With a nighttime procession lit by the glimmer of devotional candles and the flash of smartphone cameras, a church in Turkish-held northern Cyprus hosted its first Easter mass in nearly 60 years.

Dubai - Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called for unity in a new interview amid widening divisions with a rival jihadist organisation rooted in the Syrian civil war.

Nashville - This week lawmakers in Tennessee completed the final step before a bill legalizing the production of hemp could be sent to the Governor. If signed, the bill could nullify federal laws banning its production, depending on how the state law is implemented.

A new study has found Walmart's low- and poverty-wage workers cost the U.S. government an estimated $6.2 billion per year, a case of massive corporate welfare paid for by American taxpayers.

Japan announced on Friday it would conduct a scaled-down annual whale hunt in the Northern Pacific this year, according to Reuters. This is despite an international court ruling in March against their Antarctic whaling program.

Juba - The United Nations Security Council said the attack which killed at least 58 people on a UN base in South Sudan where thousands of civilians were sheltering may 'constitute a war crime'.

Homosassa - According to sheriff's deputies, a 24-year-old father suffocated his one-year-old son because the baby's crying was interfering with his ability to play video games.

IBF light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins could have retired from professional boxing while holding on to his IBF light heavyweight title at 49 but he is putting it on the line and hope to win another title at the age of 50.

Caracas - A year after promising to continue Hugo Chavez's legacy, Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro is struggling to lead an oil-rich country plagued by economic crisis, violent protests, and rampant crime.

April 19th is Record Store Day 2014 and Warner Brothers Records, who are one of the official sponsors, has announced the specials they will be contributing to the celebration.

When General Motors emerged from bankruptcy in 2010, the Canadian federal and Ontario provincial governments found themselves among the largest shareholders in one of the biggest automakers in the world and, currently, the governments want to liquidate.

Qujing - The death toll from a flooded coal mine in southwest China has risen to 20 with the recovery of another 14 bodies nearly two weeks after the accident, state media reported.

Given Lady Gaga has over 40 million twitter followers it must be the most viewed I-got-my-wisdom-teeth-pulled photo in history. The Fame Monster tweeted out the photo after visiting the dentist Thursday.

A relatively obscure jihadist group in Egypt named 'Ajnad Misr' (Soldiers of Egypt) in a recently released video has taken credit for eight attacks against Egyptian security forces and says it will launch new ones.

The banjolele-wielding rapper has been hitting the headlines rather a lot in the UK of late, following comments made by a well-known politician. Digital Journal chatted to him (Mr. B, not the politician).