NEW YORK (AP):The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said yesterday that it has chosen four journalists for its 2011 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous journalism.One edits an independent daily shut by...
WASHINGTON (AP): Facing critics on all sides, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday defended the Obama administration's new policy of deciding which illegal immigrants to send home first.The government is deporting record numbers of...
MANILA (AP):The Philippines has deported 67 Chinese allegedly involved with an international syndicate that engaged in Internet and credit-card fraud.Immigration investigation chief Arvin Santos said in a statement yesterday that the suspects are...
The family of UK student Meredith Kercher who was murdered in Italy four years ago, says the search will continue to find out what really happened on the night she was killed
THE HAGUE, (AP): The International Criminal Court yesterday authorised an investigation into violence that left some 3,000 people dead after Cte d'Ivoire's disputed presidential election last year...
PORT-OF-SPAIN, (CMC): Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has written to the Police Service Commission requesting that it obtain a "full and comprehensive report" on the response of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service to the allegations against anyone...
HANOI (AP): It was already too late when Nguyen Van Cuong heard a neighbour shout "Thief! Thief!" Two men on a motorbike had snatched up his beloved pet dog "Black" and were whizzing away...
BEIJING (AP)Another monk has set himself on fire to protest against China's tight grip over Buddhist practices in Tibet, an activist group said yesterday.Free Tibet said the monk, aged 17 or 18, is from the Kirti monastery in Aba...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez tossed a softball overhand with gusto Thursday, said his latest medical checks have been stellar and ridiculed rumours that his health might have taken a turn for the worse. ...
NEW YORK (AP):Protesters speaking out against corporate greed and other grievances were maintaining a presence in Manhattan's Financial District even after more than 700 of them were arrested during a march on the Brooklyn Bridge in a tense...
BERLIN (AP):Four suspected Islamic extremists were arrested on suspicion of obtaining guns ahead of events marking the anniversary of German reunification, but officials said yesterday they found no weapons or evidence of plans for an attack....
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP):An exiled Libyan Jew fulfilled his lifelong dream by starting the ambitious project of restoring Tripoli's main synagogue yesterday, crying as he broke down a concrete wall blocking the entrance and surveyed the damage...
MADRID (AP): Five Algerians suspected of financing al-Qaida's North African branch have been freed by a judge who said there was no significant evidence against them.The judge ordered the men to stay in Spain, report to judicial authorities twice a month...
WASHINGTON (AP):Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said yesterday he should not have stayed silent after the audience at a GOP debate booed a gay soldier serving in Iraq.The Georgia businessman told ABC's This Week that it would have been...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP):Guyana's president has banned an opposition television station from broadcasting for four months after authorities accused it of airing a slanderous comment about a close presidential associate.The announcement by leader Bharrat...
MEDAN (AP):A small plane on a local flight in western Indonesia crashed into a mountainous area yesterday and all 18 people aboard were feared dead, officials said.
CHARALLAVE (AP): Two commuter trains collided in a tunnel outside Caracas yesterday, killing at least one person, injuring about 30 and leaving frightened passengers gasping for air in the dark, officials said....
SAN JUAN, (AP):Federal agents in Puerto Rico have arrested 22 alleged members of a gang responsible for at least 10 homicides across the United States territory.Local FBI Director Joseph Campbell says agents are looking for another...
PHILADELPHIA (AP):Federal agents raided a Boeing plant that makes military helicopters in suburban Philadelphia yesterday, and charged more than three dozen people with distributing or trying to get prescription drugs, powerful painkillers among...
