SANTIAGO (AP): Tens of thousands of high-school and college students are taking to the streets of the Chilean capital to call for the end of public financing of private universities and for other reforms to the country's troubled educational system.
SAO PAULO (AP): Brazilian police said yesterday they have broken up a ring that used Internet file sharing to distribute child pornography in at least 34 countries.
DHAKA (AP): Searchers pulled out 15 bodies yesterday that had been buried under mud and debris after landslides and floods, caused by monsoon rains in southern Bangladesh, raising the toll to 106 deaths this week.
EMILIANO ZAPATA (AP): Before the sun climbed above the hills around this central Mexican town, Saul Garcia and his family awoke to the sound of bullets piercing the front gate.
LA CRESCENTA, (AP): A Southern California church says it will replace recently stolen flags because they represent its diverse membership, including a rainbow flag for gay rights.
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP): Governor Rick Scott is mystified how convicted felons manage to register and vote before getting their civil rights restored.
DOVER, Delaware (AP): The state Senate has approved a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at making it easier for convicted felons to vote in Delaware.
The management of regional airline LIAT says some of its employees who have not been paid for the month of June will receive outstanding sums by July 3.
IOWA (AP):A lawyer who gave bad advice that caused illegal immigrants from Ecuador to be separated from their children and grandchildren in Iowa for at least a decade can be sued for the family's pain and suffering, a court ruled yesterday....
DHAKA (AP):Landslides and floods caused by heavy monsoon rains killed at least 91 people in southern Bangladesh and many more were missing, the government said yesterday.Officials said the landslides occurred mainly in remote villages with poor roads...
BUDUDA (AP):Rescue workers equipped only with hand-held tools gave up their search yesterday and waited for bulldozers to arrive to help find some 100 people who residents said were missing after landslides struck Uganda's...
TUNIS (AP):Opposition parties staged a walkout from Tunisia's assembly yesterday to protest the extradition to Libya of Moammar Gaddafi's last prime minister.The fierce debate in parliament, which culminated in an opposition walkout and defiant singing...
BUENOS AIRES (AP): A grain truck has crashed with two buses transporting military police in Argentina, killing 10 people.The crash early yesterday took place in the southern province of Chubut.
TAMPA, Florida (AP):Tropical Storm Debby drenched Florida with heavy rains, flooded low-lying neighbourhoods and knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses as it lingered off the state's coast yesterday.The governor declared a statewide...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP): Drug trafficking suspects opened fire in a crowded food court at Mexico City's international airport yesterday, killing three federal policemen who were on an anti-narcotics mission as panicked witnesses dove for cover....
WASHINGTON (AP): President Barack Obama says he is pleased the Supreme Court struck down key parts of border state Arizona's immigration law but concerned about what the high court left intact....
WASHINGTON (AP): It's the biggest secret in a city known for not keeping them. The nine Supreme Court justices and more than three dozen other people have kept quiet for more than two months about how the high court is going to rule...
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP):President Fernando Lugo's rapid impeachment and ouster by lawmakers has plunged Paraguay into crisis and unleashed a wave of criticism by fellow leftist leaders in Latin America.The former Roman Catholic bishop elected on a...
PETALUMA, California (AP):A Chinese crested's short snout, beady eyes and white whiskers earned it the title of World's Ugliest Dog at the annual contest in Northern California last Friday.Competing for fame, $1,000 and a...
BELLEFONTE, Pa (AP):For years, the children Jerry Sandusky preyed upon kept quiet about what the former Penn State assistant football coach did to them in echoing shower stalls, empty hotel rooms and the muffled confines of his basement bedroom.
