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Published:Thursday | February 2, 2012 | 12:00 AM

KIEV (AP):The death toll from a severe cold spell in Eastern Europe rose to 71 yesterday, most of them homeless people.Temperatures dropped to minus 30 C (minus 22 F) in some regions, causing power outages and traffic chaos and prompting authorities to...

Published:Wednesday | February 1, 2012 | 1:46 PM

Jurors in the Allen Stanford fraud trial in the United States on Tuesday saw an undated video clip of a lavish “Stanford World in Antigua”.

Published:Wednesday | February 1, 2012 | 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): A Los Angeles elementary school teacher was charged with committing lewd acts against nearly two dozen students after a film processor gave authorities bondage-style photo-graphs showing children in blindfolds with their mouths taped...

Published:Wednesday | February 1, 2012 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS, (AP): The office of plastic surgeon Ignacio Sousa is so packed that women are lined up outside the door. College students in their 20s, housewives in their 40s, middle-class office workers...

Published:Wednesday | February 1, 2012 | 12:00 AM

KIEV (AP):Dozens of homeless people have died in an Eastern Europe cold snap, and some analysts blame a Soviet-era legacy of viewing the homeless as those who need to be punished instead of helped.Temperatures have plunged to -27°C (-17 F) in some areas.

Published:Tuesday | January 31, 2012 | 3:10 PM

A former employee testified at the fraud trial of financier R. Allen Stanford that among those employed as financial analysts was a preacher and a farm hand.

Published:Tuesday | January 31, 2012 | 3:05 PM

A jury was told Monday that Stanford International Bank (SIB) in Antigua had been placed assets worth billions of dollars in a mysterious portfolio known as Tier III.

Published:Monday | January 30, 2012 | 5:38 PM

The two men convicted for the death of Stephen Lawrence are to file an appeal against their conviction and sentence.

Published:Monday | January 30, 2012 | 2:51 PM

Ten people have been killed in a multi-vehicle crash on a highway in Florida, US.

Published:Monday | January 30, 2012 | 1:36 PM

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced plans to introduce a tax on financial transactions.

Published:Monday | January 30, 2012 | 12:00 AM

DUBLIN, Ireland (CMC): Haiti's President Michel Martelly has sought to clear his position regarding reports that he intends to grant a pardon to former dictator Jean Claude Duvalier, who made an unexpected return to the French Caribbean Community....

Published:Monday | January 30, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Doctors in the United States have reported that an American man was clinging to life after he was shot during a botched robbery outside a bank in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.Doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital said that Dave Bompart, 50, of...

Published:Monday | January 30, 2012 | 12:00 AM

The world's largest cruise line, Carnival, has confirmed that an American passenger died in The Bahamas after he fell from an upper deck on board the Carnival Fantasy...

Published:Monday | January 30, 2012 | 12:00 AM

SANTIAGO, Chile (CMC):The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, says the investment ratio in the region is not enough to maintain high growth rates.

Published:Friday | January 27, 2012 | 1:12 PM

The Italian company that owns the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia has offered passengers 11,000 euros each in compensation.

Published:Friday | January 27, 2012 | 11:06 AM

The United States is to cut almost 100,000 troops in light of budget cuts.

Published:Friday | January 27, 2012 | 12:00 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP):A 25-year-old Johannesburg secretary said she was angered, not frightened, when police threatened her and her fiancé and demanded money after a traffic stop.

Published:Friday | January 27, 2012 | 12:00 AM

PHNOM PENH (AP):About 300 Cambodians working at the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal will not be paid this month and some have worked without pay since October, because funds from donor countries have dried up, a tribunal spokesman disclosed...

Published:Friday | January 27, 2012 | 12:00 AM

MOSCOW (AP): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin disclosed yesterday that government officials must crack down on migrant workers who break the nation's laws by failing to register or get work permits, and on companies that profit by hiring...

Published:Thursday | January 26, 2012 | 1:45 PM

The bodies of three people have been recovered in Brazil by rescue workers searching through rubble, after the collapse of two high-rise office buildings in Rio de Janeiro.

Published:Wednesday | January 25, 2012 | 2:10 PM

Disgraced Texan financier, Allen Stanford, has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of fraud and money laundering.

Published:Wednesday | January 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

CONNECTICUT (AP):Four police officers, including the president of the local police union, were arrested yesterday by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on charges that they assaulted illegal immigrants and covered up abuses in a New Haven suburb...

Published:Wednesday | January 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

HARARE (AP):More teachers in Zimbabwe yesterday joined a national strike in which government workers are seeking to double their salaries.Their action on the strike's second day, and the absence of more staff from government offices, began to disrupt...

Published:Wednesday | January 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

CALIFORNIA (AP):A Marine sergeant who told his troops to "shoot first, ask questions later" in a raid that killed unarmed Iraqi women, children and elderly pleaded guilty Monday in a deal that will carry no more than three months confinement and end the...

Published:Wednesday | January 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM

BUCHAREST (AP):Romania's prime minister yesterday used a national holiday to call for unity as thousands of protesters angry at the government's failure to reverse falling living standards turned their ire towards state media.Emil Boc addressed...

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