The employer of a 29-year-old man who says he is behind the leaks of sensitive National Security Agency programs is calling the disclosure "shocking" and is pledging to work with authorities.
Nelson Mandela received visits from family members on Sunday at a hospital where the former president and anti-apartheid leader was being treated for a recurring lung infection.
About 1,000 Singaporeans rallied yesterday to protest a new government policy that requires some news websites to obtain licences and possibly remove 'offensive' content.
NEW YORK (AP):The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season smashed rainfall totals across the northeast United States and forced some streams and creeks over their banks, but sped up the Eastern Seaboard without causing major damage.
SEOUL, (AP):North and South Korea will meet in a village straddling their heavily armed border today for the first government-level talks on the peninsula in more than two years as they try to lower tension and restore stalled projects that once...
AP):The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a US$1.74 billion loan for Tunisia to ease the country's economic strains, more than two years after the revolution that toppled the former regime.
RANCHO MIRAGE, California (AP):The United States (US) and China are in "uncharted waters" as they tackle the contentious issue of cybersecurity, President Barack Obama said following the opening round of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP):A man accused of holding three women captive for about a decade in his Cleveland home, sometimes restraining them in chains, has been indicted by a grand jury on 329 charges, including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping,...
ISLAMABAD (AP):Just days after taking power, Pakistan's new government lodged a protest with the United States and summoned a top American envoy yesterday to vent its anger over an American drone strike that was said to have killed seven militants.
52-year-old Ariel Castro is facing a total of 329 charges, including 139 counts of rape and 177 counts of kidnapping, seven counts of gross sexual imposition and three counts of assault.
Police had identified 17-year-old Ramos as the possible culprit in the attack on 35-year-old Leandra Arias Janco Sunday in a Quechua community near the municipality of Colquechaca.
Tornado watches and sporadic warnings have been issued for most of Florida's peninsula, and forecasters warned of coastal flooding as the storm neared land.
The skimpy swimsuits has been replace with conservative beach sarongs. This move comes after mounting protests from hard-line Muslim groups, organisers said Thursday.
The victims were held for as long as three weeks in a one-story home alongside the US Border. Mexico's National security spokesman, Eduardo Sanchez, says 150 victims were US-bound migrants.
The newspaper has published what it said was a secret court order directing the Verizon company to hand over data on its customers on an ongoing basis.
United States Officials say Rice will replace Tom Donilon following his resignation after three years. Samantha Power, an Obama adviser, will be nominated to replace her at the United Nations.
BEIJING (AP):A fire breaks out in a Chinese factory, and panicked workers discover one exit after another is locked. That describes not only the poultry plant fire that killed 119 people on Monday, but a toy-factory blaze that left 87 workers dead 20 years earlier.
NEW YORK (AP):A group of about 100 high school students travelling from New York to Atlanta were thrown off a flight, along with their chaperones, after the pilot and crew lost patience with some kids who wouldn't sit down and put away their cell...
NEW DELHI (AP):An American woman was gang-raped yesterday in the northern Indian resort town of Manali, the police have said.The 30-year-old woman was picked up early yesterday morning by men in a truck as she was hitchhiking back to her guest house...
WASHINGTON (AP):Black people are arrested for possessing marijuana at a higher rate than white people, even though marijuana use by both races is about the same, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reports in a new study.
TIRANA (AP):Albania's government has introduced tougher penalties for murder and other serious crimes in an effort to combat blood feuds, domestic violence, and widespread illegal weapons possession.
