A powerful earthquake measuring 6.2 struck a mountainous location in southern Kyrgyzstan on the border with Uzbekistan early Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Civil defense officials say floods and mudslides caused by heavy rains have killed at least 10 people and forced more than 20,000 to leave their homes in northeastern Brazil.
President Hugo Chavez will stand for reelection next year, despite the fact that he is undergoing further cancer treatment in Cuba, the Venezuela government said.
The incoming Roman Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia has pledged to help sex-abuse victims by working harder than anyone to heal "the sins of the past."
BRUSSELS (AP):NATO warplanes destroyed the radar antenna at Tripoli International Airport yesterday, the alliance said, claiming the system was being used for military purposes by Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
SANAA (AP):Security forces in Yemen opened fire yesterday on protesters calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh during a march in a main street in the capital, killing one person and injuring eight others, a medical official said.Security...
NEW JERSEY (AP):A New Jersey rabbi and his wife surrendered to the FBI yesterday on charges that they abducted an Israeli man, beat him and threatened to bury him alive if he did not give his wife a religious divorce.The case against David Wax and his...
JOHANNESBURG (AP):Former President Nelson Mandela spent his 93rd birthday yesterday with friends and relatives, in his rural hometown, as South Africans paid tribute to the anti-apartheid icon through song and community service...
DHAKA (AP):A mob beat to death six college students in a village near the Bangladesh capital yesterday after suspecting the teenagers were planning a robbery, police said.Hundreds of villagers surrounded the seven boys and beat them with iron rods ...
The discovery of three corpses with their eyes gouged out set off a sectarian killing spree that left 30 people dead in a chilling sign that the Syrian revolt against President Bashar Assad is enflaming long-simmering religious tensions.
BEIJING (AP):Canada's foreign minister has told Chinese officials that the case of one of China's most-wanted fugitives jailed in Canada must go through that country's legal process without political interference.John Baird told reporters yesterday...
A large study in older veterans raises fresh concern about mild brain injuries that hundreds of thousands of troops have suffered from explosions in recent wars.
Casey Anthony's whereabouts for her first week of freedom were a closely guarded secret Monday, known only to a select few as she tries to start a new life after being acquitted of killing her daughter.
The discovery of three mutilated corpses set off a wave of sectarian bloodshed that killed up to 30 people over the weekend in central Syria, a dangerous escalation in violence stemming from the country's four-month-old uprising, activists said Monday.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has returned to Cuba to begin chemo-therapy nearly a month after surgery to remove a tumor, and he is expressing optimism the treatment will help him survive his cancer.
WASHINGTON (AP): President Barack Obama held a White House meeting on Saturday with the Dalai Lama, a fellow Nobel Peace laureate, hours after China called on the US to rescind an invitation that could sour relations with Beijing.The Tibetan spiritual...
Rupert Murdoch's loyal lieutenant Rebekah Brooks resigned Friday as chief executive of his embattled British newspapers, becoming the highest-ranking casualty yet in the phone-hacking scandal .
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP):Romanian organised crime prosecutors say about 90 persons have been charged for online fraud against 1,000 people, many of them Americans, amounting to $20 million (€14.2 million).
DADAAB, Kenya (AP):Malnutrition stole most of Habibo's eyesight and left the one-year-old close to death.Medical personnel tried to pump life back into the toddler, but she only moved when her stomach fitfully spasmed.
At least three people are reported to have been killed after three explosions in India's commercial capital Mumbai. According to initial reports, dozens of people have been wounded.
MORE THAN a dozen armed men abducted a naturalised American, her teenage son and Filipino nephew before dawn yesterday from a southern Philippine island near a stronghold of al-Qaida-linked militants, officials said.
