LUANDA, Angola (AP): President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' ruling party has won 73 per cent of the national vote assuring his government, in power for 33 years, another five years in power....
BEIRUT (AP): The United Nation's (UN) new envoy to Syria told President Bashar Assad's regime on the weekend that change is both "urgent" and "necessary" and that it must meet the "legitimate" demands of the Syrian people, words that will not win the...
ISLAMABAD (AP) :A Muslim cleric is accused of stashing pages of a Quran in a Christian girl's bag to make it seem like she burned the Islamic holy book, a surprising twist in a case that caused an international outcry over the country's strict blasphemy...
BAMAKO, Mali (AP):Members of a radical Islamic group in northern Mali are claiming to have executed one of the Algerian diplomats they kidnapped five months ago, when their fighters raided the Algerian consulate in the city of Gao.The information could...
By the time the drug was pulled from the market in 1961, more than 10,000 babies worldwide had been born with a range of disabilities caused by the drug.
South Africa's justice minister has demanded an explanation after 270 miners were charged with the murder of their colleagues, who were shot by police during protests.
SAN JUAN (AP):A Puerto Rico man is facing a possible death sentence for killing a girlfriend who had become an informant for the US Drug Enforcement Administration.A jury in the US island territory convicted Edison Burgos Montes of importing and...
ABIDJAN (AP):Ivory Coast's military prosecutor says that 73 people, including 19 soldiers, have been detained in connection with a recent spate of attacks on military positions in the West African nation.Gunmen have carried out seven attacks against the...
NEW ORLEANS (AP):Isaac dumped unrelenting rain and flooded areas around New Orleans yesterday as people who thought they could ride out a lowest-category hurricane faced quickly rising waters.
CANBERRA, (AP)Australia calls it a "closing-down sale" for people smugglers: asylum-seekers in rickety boats are reaching its shores in record numbers ahead of a tougher deportation policy starting in September.
Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan has promised a turnaround for America, in a prime-time speech to the party convention in Tampa, Florida.
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...
