MANILA (AP): Millions of Roman Catholic devotees paraded with a statue of Christ through the Philippine capital under a massive police cordon yesterday...
MOSCOW (AP):The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged the government to listen to protesters demanding free elections.Patriarch Kirill on Saturday warned both sides that Russia cannot afford another revolution....
GAUHATI, (AP):A leopard that wandered into a city in eastern India went on a rampage, killing one man, swiping off part of another man's scalp and injuring three other people before authorities tranquilised it....
CARACAS (AP):The presidents of Venezuela and Peru have reached an agreement for the Peruvian state oil company to invest in development of Venezuela's eastern Orinoco oil belt.Venezuela's state oil monopoly will study a possible role in developing a...
CARACAS (AP):About 400 Venezuelan women sued companies that sold faulty French-made breast implants last Friday demanding the companies cover their medical expenses.The group is seeking a court order to cover...
BUENOS AIRES (AP):Argentine President Cristina Fernandez did not have cancer after all.After having some of Argentina's leading cancer surgeons completely remove her thyroid gland, tests showed no presence of any cancerous cells."Tissue studies ruled...
WASHINGTON (AP):Fellow Republican candidates hacked away at Mitt Romney's front-runner status yesterday in the second debate in two days as New Hampshire voters were deciding on their choice for the party's nomination to challenge President Barack Obama...
The CNN is reporting that prosecutors in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak have formally requested a penalty of death by hanging for Mubarak.
SANTO DOMINGO, (AP): A moderate 5.3-magnitude earthquake rattled the southern coast of the Dominican Republic just before dawn yesterday, resulting in cracks in several buildings but no injuries or evacuations...
GEORGETOWN, (AP): Authorities in Guyana say Jamaica is sending a team of detectives to probe rape allegations against the South American country's police chief. Presidential spokesman Kwame McKoy...
CIUDAD VICTORIA, (AP):A fight among inmates armed with makeshift knives, clubs, and stones left 31 people dead in a prison in a drug-plagued state in northern Mexico, authorities said.Another 13 prisoners were wounded...
TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian Roman Catholic bishop who admitted he was addicted to looking at child pornography has been sentenced to 15 months in jail, but he should be released Wednesday with credit for time served.
LONDON (AP) — Investigators trying to identify the body of a young woman found on Queen Elizabeth II's Sandringham estate are focusing on cases of women who have gone missing in recent months, police said Wednesday.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's president was awake and recovering Wednesday after a 3.5 hour operation to remove her cancerous thyroid gland.
NAIROBI (AP): Red Cross volunteers are trying to reconnect 150 young children with their missing parents after tens of thousands of residents of South Sudan ran into the bush while fleeing a massive wave...
PYONGYANG (AP): Pumping their fists and chanting, tens of thousands of North Koreans packed the snowy main square of the capital yesterday, to pledge their loyalty to new leader Kim Jong Un as the campaign to consolidate his power deepened....
HANOI (AP): State-controlled media say a Vietnamese journalist who exposed police corruption has been arrested on suspicion of giving a bribe that he then wrote about in his newspaper.The Thanh Nien newspaper says Hoang Khuong...
SYDNEY (AP): Glittering fireworks in the shapes of butterflies, hearts and a cascading waterfall exploded over Sydney's Harbour Bridge yesterday as cheering revelers welcomed 2012 and bid a weary adieu ...
SAN JOSE (AP):Police in Costa Rica have jailed a British man on suspicion that he killed a young Czech woman who refused to have sex with him.The country's Judicial Investigation Agency said in a news statement...
KABUL (AP):President Hamid Karzai says police will arrest members of a family accused of torturing and illegally detaining their son's teenage wife for the past six months while trying to force her into...
MEXICO CITY (AP):Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel appears to be extending its massive production of methamphetamine into neighbouring Guatemala, as hundreds of tons of precursor chemicals stream into the Central American nation.While Mexico is...
MAINE (AP):Even as drivers are increasingly distracted by cellphones, email and texting, the number of highway deaths dipped to the lowest level in more than five decades in Maine and to an all-time low in neighbouring New Hampshire in 2011, officials...
