ASSIUT, (AP):A speeding train crashed into a bus carrying children to their kindergarten in southern Egypt yesterday killing at least 49, officials said.
TAMPA, (AP):FBI Special Agent Frederick Humphries II played a key role in investigating a terrorist attack aimed at blowing up Los Angeles International Airport just as the year 2000 dawned.Today, the agent, who also fatally shot a knife-wielding man...
DUBLIN (AP): Pressure mounted yesterday for the Irish government to draft a law spelling out when life-saving abortions can be performed, a demand that came after a pregnant woman who was denied an abortion died....
The Obama administration has yet to make clear how strongly it will enforce a federal ban on marijuana that is not affected by the Colorado and Washington votes.
SAN JUAN (AP):Puerto Ricans have endorsed United States statehood for the Caribbean island but also ousted the pro-statehood governor in a close election.
JACKSON (AP):A protest at the Univer-sity of Mississippi against the re-election of President Barack Obama grew into a crowd of about 400 students who shouted racial slurs as rumours of a riot spread on social media.
PESHAWAR (AP):A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up near a vehicle carrying the regional head of a government-allied militia in northwest Pakistan yesterday, killing him and five others, police and the militant group said.
BROOMFIELD Michigan (AP):As police frantically worked to figure out how his fiancée's 24-year-old daughter had vanished, a pastor in Michigan in the United States (US) who had turned to God to shed his violent past went to his flock with a request: pray...
MOGADISHU, (AP):A police official says a security guard died while fending off suicide bombers who were trying to storm into a popular Mogadishu restaurant yesterday.According to the police, security guards at the gate of The Village restaurant shot at...
BEIRUT (AP):Syrian rebels launched a dawn assault yesterday on a strategic airbase in the north of the country, trying to disrupt strikes by warplanes and helicopters that pound rebel-held towns and give the regime of President Bashar Assad a major edge...
NEW YORK:More New Yorkers awoke yesterday morning to power being restored for the first time since Superstorm Sandy pummelled the region, and those whose lights were back on celebrated it, but patience was wearing thin among those in the region who had...
NEW YORK (AP):New York City moved closer to resuming its frenetic pace by getting back its vital subways yesterday, three days after a superstorm, but neighbouring New Jersey was stunned by coastal devastation...
WASHINGTON (AP): New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday backed President Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney, saying the incumbent Democrat will bring leadership that is critically needed to fight climate change...
KABUL (AP): A man wearing an Afghan police uniform shot and killed two British soldiers at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan yesterday, international military officials said.
TEXAS McALLEN, (AP):Texas law enforcement agents were close enough to a pickup truck to see that it was carrying people, not drugs, before one opened fire, killing two Guate-malan immigrants, a diplomat...
CAIRO (AP):Egypt's president acknowledged the widespread problem of sexual harassment in his country yesterday, ordering his interior minister to investigate a rash of assaults during a just-completed...
The massive storm caused the worst damage in the 108-year history of New York's extensive subway system, according to Joseph Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
ATLANTIC CITY (AP): The first blow from Hurricane Sandy as it turned toward the East Coast yesterday flooded Atlantic City and other New Jersey shore towns...
FRAMINGHAM, Massachussetts (AP): Hurricane Sandy lashed Massachusetts with strong winds and heavy surf yesterday, prompting evacuations in some coastal areas and leaving thousands without power....
WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama the candidate stepped aside yesterday so the commander- in-chief could take over.In the waning days of his re-election bid, the president scrapped two days of campaigning and retreated from the trail.
AVON LAKE (AP): Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney curtailed his campaigning yesterday as Hurricane Sandy churned closer to the East Coast and urged supporters to donate to the Red Cross or other relief agencies gearing up to help storm victims.
