Hurricane Isaac pushed water over a rural levee to flood some homes, knocked out power and immersed beach-front roads in Louisiana and Mississippi early today.
The Haitian government says at least 24 people have died in accidents related to Tropical Storm Isaac. Haiti's Civil Protection Office said in a report today that the bulk of the deaths happened in the southeastern and western parts of the country.
Tropical Storm Isaac has now been upgraded to a category one hurricane and US President Barack Obama is warning residents in the path to heed evacuation warnings.
Tropical Storm Isaac barely stirred Florida Keys residents from their fabled nonchalance Sunday, while the Gulf Coast braced for the possibility that the sprawling storm will strengthen into a dangero
Britain said Sunday it was deeply concerned by emerging reports of a "brutal massacre of civilians" in a Damascus suburb where activists claim more than 300 people have been killed over the past week
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery early yesterday, killing at least 24 people and injuring more than 50 others in the deadliest disaster in memory for the country's key oil...
HAVANA (AP):Cuba's system of free medical care, long considered a birthright by its citizens and trumpeted as one of the government's great successes, is not immune to cutbacks under Raul Castro's drive for efficiency.The health sector has already...
CHARLOTTE, NC (AP):The constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in the host state of the Democratic National Convention has stirred anger and resentment among advocates for marriage equality, many of whom are converging on Charlotte this weekend for the...
(AP):The Mexican government is battling an egg shortage and hoarding that have caused prices to spike in a country with the highest per-capita egg consumption on Earth.A summer epidemic of bird flu in the...
Two months out from Election Day, nearly a quarter of all registered voters in America are either undecided about the presidential race or iffy in their support for a candidate, an Associated Press-GfK poll...
LONDON (AP):The prince has no clothes, but British newspapers aren't running the pictures.The country's scandal-loving tabloids devoted many pages yesterday to the story of Prince Harry's naked romp in a Las Vegas...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):The Kenya Red Cross says that at least 52 people are dead and another 50 missing after hundreds of farmers attacked cattle herders in southeast Kenya on Wednesday.Sadik Kakai, head of disaster operations for the Kenya Red Cross...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AP):Humanitarian officials say the death toll from a cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone has risen to 217 people. Oxfam said yesterday that the death rates in the West African country are almost double emergency thresholds....
WASHINGTON (AP): An informal adviser to Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is representing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees suing the Obama administration over its plan to stop deporting many young illegal immigrants and...
MIAMI (CMC): The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has indicated that Tropical Storm Isaac could become a hurricane today, as it barrels down on the Dominican Republic and Haiti....
MIAMI (CMC): Several Caribbean countries were placed under a tropical warning yesterday, as a tropical depression moved into the Lesser Antilles and emerge over the Eastern Caribbean Sea by tomorrow.
BEIJING (CMC): A senior Barbados government minister has told an international health conference that a quarter of all adult nationals in his country have at least one chronic disease and the figure could increase to affect more Barbadians by 2025.
KHARTOUM (AP):A Sudanese helicopter carrying a government delegation crashed in a mountainous southern region yesterday, killing all 32 people on board, including a Cabinet minister, a former presidential adviser, two generals...
ROSTOV-ON-DON (AP):A suicide bomber blew himself up as policemen in southern Russia gathered yesterday for the funeral of a slain colleague, killing at least seven of the policemen and badly wounding 12 other people, investigators said....
SAN JUAN (AP):Voters are lining up at polling stations across Puerto Rico to decide whether to amend the island's constitution via a two-part referendum. The referendum would shrink the size of the island's legislature by almost 30 per cent as part...
LONDON (AP): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on President Barack Obama to end a so-called "witch hunt" against his secret-spilling website, appearing in public Sunday for the first time since he took refuge two months ago inside Ecuador's Embassy...
HARARE (AP):Officials of the Salvation Army in Zimbabwe said yesterday they have given a Canadian doctor 48 hours to leave the southern African nation after he was fired from a mission hospital...
