RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):Brazilian news media are reporting that police have found the bodies of six teenagers who disappeared during a visit to a waterfall.Police tell local newspapers that the youth, aged 16 to 19, were found yesterday...
NEW YORK (AP):For the first time, elected officials won't speak at today's ceremony commemorating the September 11 attacks, an occasion that has allowed them a solemn turn in the spotlight.
The television advertising war for the 2012 presidential contest is now well and truly on with its total spending expected to swell to US$1.1 billion (more than J$90 billion).
WASHINGTON (AP):Finally, the fall season offers the matchup sure to attract the biggest audience of the campaign: President Barack Obama goes one-on-one with Republican rival Mitt Romney in three prime-time debates.
DENVER (AP):Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan says the federal government shouldn't interfere with states that have legalised medical marijuana.The Wisconsin congressman said while he personally doesn't approve of medical marijuana laws...
BEIJING (AP):Rescue workers cleared roads yesterday so they could search for survivors and rush aid to a remote mountainous area of south-western China after twin earthquakes killed at least 80 people.
MEXICO CITY (AP):Mothers rushed to pull their kids out of school, shopkeepers slammed down their metal gates, and bus drivers radioed one another about streets to avoid after rumours of shoot-outs and gunmen travelling in a caravan in a Mexico City...
KABUL, (AP):A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up outside NATO headquarters in the Afghan capital yesterday, killing at least six civilians in a strike that targeted the heart of the United States (US)-led military operation in the country.
HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP):Tropical Storm Leslie moved slowly northward yesterday after pausing to spin in place over the Atlantic, and forecasters expected it would regain strength and become a hurricane before passing to the east of Bermuda.
NOSARA (AP):A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swathe of Central America yesterday, collapsing some houses, blocking highways and causing panic, but officials said there was only one reported death, from a heart attack.The...
HARARE (AP):An independent animal welfare group said yesterday it is filing cruelty charges against the veterinary teaching department at Zimbabwe's main university after three emaciated, ailing and distressed horses were killed using an axe and a...
MIAMI (AP):Tropical Storm Leslie is moving slowly in the Atlantic towards Bermuda and could become a hurricane soon.Leslie's maximum sustained winds yesterday were 70 mph (110 kph).
SANTO DOMINGO (AP):Drug enforcement officials in the Dominican Republic say they have seized a large amount of cocaine from two boats in the Caribbean in an operation with United States assistance.The National Drug Control Agency says the boats...
MIAMI (AP): Tropical Storm John has formed in the eastern Pacific near the Mexican island of Socorro but far from the mainland.The United States National Hurricane Centre in Miami said the storm formed early yesterday morning near Socorro...
NAIROBI (AP): Union organisers say nearly 280,000 teachers in Kenya are staying away from work to demand long overdue pay raises, paralysing resumption of classes after holidays...
LAGOS (AP):The roasted chickens had an unusual stuffing, US$150,000 worth of cocaine, according to Nigerian police.A Nigerian mechanic who struggled in Brazil for more than six years had hoped the drugs would buy him a life of luxury in his native land,...
MADRID (AP):Authorities said 160 would-be migrants tried to break into a fenced-off Spanish enclave on the north African coast yesterday, and Spain's foreign minister worried more may head to Spanish islands near Morocco.Officials said the migrants...
SANTO DOMINGO, (AP):A spokesman for a beach resort in the Dominican Republic says a gas tank explosion has injured 16 kitchen workers.Grand Paradise Bavaro spokesman Luis Lopez says five workers were hospitalised as a result of the blast.
