WASHINGTON (AP):House Speaker John Boehner accused the Obama administration yesterday of an "unambiguous attack on religious freedom", promising that Congress will reverse a new policy requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with...
SALVADOR (AP): As many as 300 striking police officers and their relatives held out yesterday as heavily armed soldiers blockaded a state legislature building in northeastern Brazil....
LAGOS (AP): Bombs exploded yesterday at two major military bases on the outskirts of a central Nigerian city at the heart of ethnic and religious unrest in Africa's most populous nation, injuring an unknown number of people....
CARACAS (AP): Venezuelan health authorities are investigating the deaths of 11 newborns within four days at a single public hospital. Regional health officer Angel Melchor says the babies died from Thursday to Sunday...
beirut (AP): The United States (US) closed its Syrian embassy and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus yesterday, in a dramatic new Western push to get President Bashar Assad to leave power...
SANTIAGO, (AP):Chile declared a public-health alert yesterday over a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected at least 10 others.Health Minister Jaime Manalich said wildfires in the southern Bio Bio and Araucania regions have driven...
LAS VEGAS (AP):Mitt Romney's decisive victory in Nevada was never much in doubt.He won the state's caucuses four years ago, kept his organisation active and he could count on support from fellow Mormons who made up a quarter of caucus-goers this year...
MADALLA, Nigeria (AP):A Catholic church in Nigeria still in mourning after a Christmas Day bombing by a radical Islamist sect buried its dead amid wails of grief and under the watch of security agencies that still fear more violence.Neatly dug graves...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP):An Eni SpA oil pipeline ruptured and caught fire as a militant group claimed responsibility for an attack in the region, its first alleged assault in months as its purported leader awaits trial on terrorism charges in South...
WARSAW (AP): Europe's death toll from a week of frigid weather rose to 122 yesterday as officials scrambled to figure out how to protect mostly homeless victims from the deep freeze that is killing them....
KARACHI (AP):Pakistani authorities have closed a drug factory alleged to have made faulty heart medicine that killed more than 100 patients.Government investigator Akbar Baluch said yesterday that tests...
NEW YORK (AP):A secret police document shows that the New York Police Department (NYPD) recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion....
PORT MORESBY (AP):Rescuers plucked more than 230 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank yesterday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said....
ISLAMABAD (AP):Pakistan's Supreme Court vowed yesterday to charge the prime minister with contempt for his failure to reopen an old corruption case against the president, ramping up a destabilising political crisis...
A former employee for Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford testified Tuesday that the financier lavishly spent millions of dollars to develop property and businesses in Antigua.
An accountant who worked for Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford testified Wednesday that he grew increasingly concerned that the financier wouldn't be able to return the US$2 billion he secretly borrowed.
ABIDJAN (AP):The Hershey Company says it will invest $10 million in West Africa to reduce child labour and improve the cocoa supply, mostly in Ghana and Ivory Coast.Spokesman Andy McCormick says the measure will bring higher productivity for farmers and...
MEXICO CITY (AP):Prosecutors said yesterday they broke up not one, but two Indiana Jones-style plots to "extract" the son of late dictator Moammar Gaddafi from Libya and bring him to Mexico as his father's regime crumbled.
CALIFORNIA (AP):First lady Michelle Obama yesterday said the campaign to bring healthy food to all Americans is happening neighbourhood by neighbourhood.Standing in a vacant Southern California store set to be refurbished and reopened this summer, Obama...
JOHANNESBURG (AP):A South African court has sentenced four men to 18 years for a murder rights activists say was carried out because the victim was a lesbian.The men were sentenced Tuesday for the 2006 stabbing and stoning attack on Zoliswa Nkonyana.
