Wuerzburg/ AFP A 17-year-old Afghan refugee who attacked four people with an axe on a German train had an Islamic State flag at his house, police said on Tuesday shortly before the extremist group claimed him as one of its fighters. German authorities said they had found the hand-painted IS flag among the belongings of the asylum-seeker, who seriously …

  WASHINGTON Let’s salute an unlikely champion of saving energy and switching to alternative fuels — the US Navy. Once a supreme fuel-guzzler whose energy needs sometimes dictated foreign policy, the Navy has become a model for how the country can curb its appetite for fossil fuels. The Navy’s energy diet began seven years ago with an edict from newly …

  An ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that brings 12 nations together, and accounts for 40 percent of the global economy, faces enormous challenges in terms of ratification in the US Congress, and rejection by the presidential candidates. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has outrightly rejected the TPP though a number of Republicans more Democrats back the agreement. Democratic …