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KATMANDU (AP):A plane crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal yesterday, killing 15 people and injuring six, some critically.It was carrying two pilots and a flight attendant, all Nepalese, along...

A study by the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) has found that home ownership is unaffordable for many people in Latin American and the Caribbean.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP): Three Boston University (BU) students who were studying in New Zealand died yesterday when their minivan crashed.At least five other students from the university were injured in the accident, including one, who was in...

A strike by fuel tanker drivers in the UK has been averted after they narrowly voted to accept a deal.

Chinese media say a woman, upset over the compensation she was offered for losing her home, blew up explosives strapped to her body, killing herself and two other people.The official Xinhua News Agency says another 14 people were wounded...

US President Barack Obama has become the first sitting president to back gay marriage.

The leader of Greece's far-left party is to try to form a government after parties backing an international bailout deal failed to assemble a coalition.

KALUTARA (AP):Dozens of Buddhists led by monks joined a demonstration yesterday urging Sri Lanka's government to proceed with plans to dismantle a mosque located in a sacred Buddhist area.The protesters marched peacefully through Kalutara town...

CARACAS (AP): Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has spent much of his career praising the socialist ideas of famed atheists such as Karl Marx and Fidel Castro...

An al-Qaeda leader in Yemen who was wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the American warship, USS Cole, has been killed in an air strike.

Greece's two governing parties, which back tough austerity measures, yesterday lost their parliamentary majority in national election.

Former media mogul Conrad Black has been released from prison in Miami, after serving just over three years for defrauding investors.