WASHINGTON (AP):The Obama administration is slapping sanctions on two senior lieutenants of India's most-wanted organised crime lords.The Treasury Department yesterday designated the two men, Chhota Shakeel and Ibrahim...
JERUSALEM (AP):An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a US court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and 10 others in a 2006 bombing, the group's...
QUITO (AP):Ecuador's anti-narcotics chief says authorities have found US$1.3 million in cash in a plane from Mexico that crashed into a rural hillside.General Juan Carlos Barragan says officials counted up the cash and also found the remains of two...
A Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself Today called three of the kids who had sought help from a neighbor back to the house before firing the fatal shots.
MAIDUGURI, (AP)Separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, likely carried out by a radical Islamist sect, killed at least seven police officers Sunday, witnesses said, the latest violence to shake the bloodied region.The attacks focused around the city of...
SANTIAGO (AP):A magnitude-6.2 magnitude earthquake damaged walls, shattered windows and knocked out electricity in parts of far-northern Chile and the Peruvian city of Tacna but no injuries or major damage were reported.The United States Geological...
QUITO (AP):A Mexican-registered plane carrying two men, a large amount of cash and a dog has crashed in Ecuador and officials say they suspect the money may be related to drug trafficking.The plane crashed into a hillside Sunday night near the western...
TRIPOLI (AP):The uprising in Syria fuelled intense clashes in neighbouring Lebanon for a third day yesterday, with gunmen firing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades as sectarian tensions spilled across the border.At least four people have been...
MONTERREY (AP): Authorities struggled yesterday to identify the 49 people found mutilated and scattered in a pool of blood in a region near the United States border where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Several people, including a Jamaican national, died at the weekend in Trinidad and Tobago, law enforcement officials here have confirmed.Police said that Anthony Patrick Gayle of Kingston, Jamaica, who was sea-bathing with his...
Karen Kleeman, second from left, hugs Maryanne Schumm, left, while Amelia Jane Carson, second from right, hugs Betty Koster, after Kleeman and Carson were married at the marriage bureau in the city clerk's office in New York, Thursday, May 10, 2012.
KINSHASA (AP):A government official in eastern Congo says rebels armed with machetes have killed at least 20 people in an attack on a village.Marcellin Cishambo, the governor of South Kivu province, blamed the attack on...
KATMANDU (AP):A plane crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal yesterday, killing 15 people and injuring six, some critically.It was carrying two pilots and a flight attendant, all Nepalese, along...
Nearly 380 people have been infected with the deadly HIV/AIDS virus since it was first detected in Dominica in 1987, according to official figures released here.
A study by the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) has found that home ownership is unaffordable for many people in Latin American and the Caribbean.
WASHINGTON (AP):The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering approval of the first over-the-counter HIV test that would allow consumers to quickly test themselves for the virus at home, without medical supervision.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP): Three Boston University (BU) students who were studying in New Zealand died yesterday when their minivan crashed.At least five other students from the university were injured in the accident, including one, who was in...
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has broken a long silence on gay marriage and left the door open for making it legal.In a statement sent to The Associated Press by his press secretary yesterday, Key said he is "not personally opposed to gay...
Chinese media say a woman, upset over the compensation she was offered for losing her home, blew up explosives strapped to her body, killing herself and two other people.The official Xinhua News Agency says another 14 people were wounded...
Senior monks from South Korea's largest Buddhist sect have offered to resign after the release of photos purportedly showing fellow monks gambling illegally.South Korean television has aired photos of eight monks huddled for a poker...
