MANILA (AP):Philippine troops yesterday recovered the bodies of six more soldiers following fierce fighting with the country's largest Muslim rebel group that has sent both sides scrambling to stop the violence from further damaging shaky peace...
OHIO (AP):Sheriff's deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals, including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions, in a big-game hunt across the Ohio countryside yesterday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw their cages open and committed suicide in...
ATHENS (AP):Hundreds of youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens and clashed with riot police during a massive anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures that won initial parliamentary approval in a vote yesterday.The rioting...
MAUN (AP):A second light aircraft crashed on take-off yesterday in Botswana's Okavango Delta but all six people on-board survived unscathed, the air charter company said.Another failed take-off in the same area five days ago killed eight...
LONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker who led efforts to expose the country's tabloid phone hacking scandal was heading to the United States Wednesday, where he said he would try to raise the issue at the annual general meeting of News Corp., the global media
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — State television in Macedonia says a 71-year-old woman has been hospitalized with serious injuries after being attacked by a herd of hungry pigs on her farm.
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — Nearly 1,000 police officers were fired to weed out corruption from the violence-ravaged Gulf coast state of Veracruz, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.
CAJICA (AP): Colombia's president calls a free-trade pact finally approved by the United States (US) Congress a commercial milestone that will build export muscle, but many of the country's small farmers fear for their livelihoods....
DUBAI (AP):When its gasolene pumps started going dry in the United Arab Emirates' poorer northern states earlier this year, Dubai's oil company blamed mysterious service upgrades.Few believed that at the time, and now the company is dropping its...
NAIROBI (AP):Signaling a stepped-up campaign against Somali militants, Kenya's top security chiefs said Saturday that Kenyan forces will pursue militants into Somalia, a response to a spate of attacks in which four...
BAGHDAD (AP): The US is abandoning plans to keep US troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, the Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement ...
TOKYO (AP):Japan feared three months after the Fukushima nuclear power plant was hit by a tsunami that aftershocks could further damage one of its fuel storage pools, causing rods inside to melt...
Seventy-year-old Phyllis Coelho plunged her blue-gloved hands into a plastic sink of gray soapy water and spent an afternoon last week cheerfully washing dishes "to support the revolution".
WASHINGTON (AP): President Barack Obama is campaigning for both his jobs bill and his re-election on a three-day bus tour beginning today through North Carolina and Virginia, two southern states crucial for his chances in next November's election.
VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Benedict XVI began using a wheeled platform yesterday to navigate the long aisle of St Peter's Basilica, adopting the device employed by his ailing predecessor to reduce fatigue.
Fearing renewed warfare, hundreds of Somalis loaded up small children and household goods on donkey-powered carts yesterday in a northern Mogadishu neighbourhood where Islamist militants are taking up positions.
Police in Nigeria raided a newspaper office yesterday after detectives arrested four journalists over the publication of a purported letter from the nation's former president instructing its current leader to fire government officials.
