The United Nations mission in Haiti is worried that a scarcity of resources will prompt a further 'scale-back' on services to Haitians who were made homeless after the 2010 earthquake.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT Hugo Chávez said Sunday he has begun radiation therapy in Cuba as part of cancer treatment one month after undergoing an operation that removed a tumour...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):A BRAZILIAN newspaper is reporting that Rio de Janeiro state's iconic Guanabara Bay is heavily polluted as Brazil prepares to host the 'Rio plus 20' Earth Summit in June.Rio plus 20 is scheduled for June, two decades after the first...
WASHINGTON (AP): THE MONUMENTAL fight over a health care law that touches all Americans and divides them sharply goes before the United States Supreme Court on Monday.
TWO UNITED States of America senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law...
STARKVILLE, Mississippi (AP):A 21-YEAR-OLD student was shot to death in a Mississippi State University dormitory, though the killing appears to be isolated and there is no indication others...
Wearing hooded sweatshirts similar to the one that Trayvon Martin wore on the night he was killed, many preachers and worshippers echoed calls for justice Sunday in the shooting death of an unarmed bl
The U.S. paid $50,000 in compensation for each villager killed and $11,000 for each person wounded in a shooting rampage allegedly carried out by a rogue American soldier in southern Afghanistan, Afgh
The U.S. Justice Department could bring a hate crime charge against the shooter in the killing of black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin if there is sufficient evidence the slaying was motivated by rac
A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami.
A former member of an elite Guatemalan military force extradited from the United States last July was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison, for his role in the killings of 201 people in a 1982 massacre.
RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (AP):Through silence and prayers, people across Japan yesterday remembered the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation one year ago, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the...
BEIRUT (AP):An international push to end Syria's conflict stalled yesterday as United Nations envoy Kofi Annan left Damascus without a ceasefire and President Bashar Assad's forces pounded opposition areas and clashed with rebels throughout the...
