Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as "Last Dance," ''Love to Love You Baby" and "Bad Girls" became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, and dance has died.
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
Sao Paulo, Brazil (AP):One subway train has crashed into the back of another in Brazil's largest city, injuring 33 persons, two of whom are reported to be in critical condition with head injuries.Sao Paulo's fire department says one of the trains had...
Lagos, Nigeria (AP):The firing of nearly 800 doctors working at hospitals in Nigeria's most populous state has exposed the failings of the nation's medical system, as lawyers said yesterday negotiations over the physicians' fate continued.Many of the...
Former IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a counter suit against a hotel maid who accused him of sexual harassment, seeking US$1 million in damages.
BOGOTá, (AP):A bomb has exploded on a crowded street in Colombia's capital, and the city's health director says at least 19 people have been injured.TV images from the scene in Bogotá's northern commercial district showed a badly...
ATHENS (AP):Greece is headed for another month of political paralysis ahead of new elections in mid-June, after party leaders yesterday failed to reach an agreement to build a coalition government.The protracted deadlock and...
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.
