SAN SEBASTIAN DE LA GOMERA (AP):Morocco sent two water-bombing planes yesterday to help Spain battle a stubborn 10-day-old wildfire that has scorched nearly 10 per cent of the land on the Canary Island of La Gomera,...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP): Rescuers ended the search yesterday for survivors of twin earthquakes in northwestern Iran that killed at least 250 people and injured more than 2,600 a day earlier, state television reported.At least 20 villages were totally levelled,...
BEIRUT (AP): The head of Syria's main opposition group in exile yesterday called for international powers to impose a no-fly zone in border areas to protect civilians who are coming under increasingly intense attacks by regime warplanes and helicopters....
(AP): Police found eight decomposing bodies last Friday inside a car abandoned by a waterpark in northern Mexico, a day after authorities in a neighbouring state located a sports utility vehicle with 14 bodies stuffed inside.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP): A member of the Afghan National Police opened fire at his colleagues at a checkpoint in south-western Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least 10 of his fellow policemen, officials said.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Turkey's foreign minister said yesterday that their countries are creating a formal structure to plan for worst-case scenarios in Syria, including a possible chemical weapons attack on regime opponents.
His selection just hours old, Republican Mitt Romney's vice-presidential pick, Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan, was already tearing into President Barack Obama's "record of failure".
LONDON: At the Olympics, it's not just the athletes who go faster, higher and stronger. So do the emotions of spectators. Amid the mayhem, a religious volunteer army...
LONDON (AP):No subway cleaners will be working in the stretch of the London subway, known as the Tube, near the Olympic Park between today and Saturday, as part of a walkout, a transport union says.The RMT union says that the strike is the result of a...
LONDON (AP):Instead of portraits of the Queen, Britain is getting kings and queens of sports.The Royal Mail has been busy paying tribute to the country's Olympians in the last two weeks with special-issue stamps for gold medallists.
ROME (AP) :The 2008 Olympic race walk champion who was expelled from the London Games for doping broke down in tears yesterday while recounting how he hid the banned substance in the home he shares with star figure skater Carolina Kostner.Alex Schwazer...
MANILA (AP): Relentless rains submerged half of the sprawling Philippine capital, triggered a landslide that killed nine people and sent emergency crews scrambling yesterday to rescue tens of thousands of residents...
ABUJA, (AP):Three men entered a central Nigerian church just before Bible study began, but instead of joining the worship service they opened fire, killing at least 19 people in an attack that shows that violence is spreading in the divided...
LOS ANGELES (AP):The City Council yesterday proclaimed the day in honour of the Jamaican reggae legend, whose hits include I Shot the Sheriff and No Woman, No Cry.Marley was 36 when he died of cancer in 1981, but his children, Ziggy and Karen, were on...
SAO PAULO (AP): The Brazilian government has sent close to 9,000 troops to its borders with four neighbouring countries as part of a big two-week anti-crime operation.Army, navy and air force personnel have been deployed along Brazil's frontiers with...
LONDON: The British capital is awash in Olympic ink, tattoo ink, that is.At Olympic venues around London, competitors flaunt marks of blood, sweat, tears, and hopefully glory, on toned arms, hips and torsos....
LONDON (AP)A man accused of throwing a plastic bottle on to the Olympic track seconds before the start of the men's 100-metre final pleaded not guilty yesterday to creating a public nuisance.Ashley Gill-Webb, looking tired and wearing a white T-shirt,...
