The owner of a troubled large oil refinery on the US Virgin Islands (USVI) has agreed to spend more than $700 million on pollution controls after a series of environmental issues linked to the plant.
Kinshasa (AP) :Wildlife officials in volatile eastern Congo yesterday buried the bodies of eight people killed in an attack on rangers working at a large national park.Virunga National Park director Emmanuel de Merode ...
Los Angeles (AP):Michael Jackson's doctor pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop superstar's death as the case moved rapidly towards trial."Your Honour, I am an innocent man," ...
Kuala Lumpur (AP):Malaysia and South Korea announced plans yesterday to prosecute 12 captured Somali pirates in what maritime officials praised as a move that might deter the hijacking of ships off East Africa....
MOSCOW (AP): Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed revenge yesterday for the suicide bombing that killed 35 people at a Moscow airport, a familiar tough-on-terrorism stance that has underpinned his power but also resulted...
MADERA, California (AP):Madera County authorities are investigating the deaths of a five-year-old girl and her mother. Sheriff's officials say deputies were called to a home in the small, unincorporated community ...
CAIRO (AP):Egypt's top security official accused an al-Qaida-inspired group in the Gaza Strip on Sunday of being behind the New Year's Day suicide bombing that killed 21 people outside a Coptic Christian church in the Mediterranean port city...
ATLANTA (AP):A federal judge upheld Georgia's law banning guns in churches and other places of worship by dismissing a lawsuit Monday that claims the ban violates constitutional rights to freedom of religion and bearing arms.The lawsuit had been filed...
Abuja (AP):Nigerian lawmakers passed a bill yesterday that could extend a voter-registration drive for the oil-rich nation's April elections by more than two weeks, responding to criticisms surrounding...
Kampala (AP):An Uganda Wildlife Authority official says more than 270 African gray parrots have been seized from smugglers in the past month, which suggests there is a syndicate illegally exporting Ugandan wildlife.Johnson Masereka said yesterday...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to track down and punish those behind a suicide bomb attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport which killed 35 people and injured more than 100.
Immigration officials in the United States have deported 27 Haitian migrants previously convicted of serious crimes, the first since last year’s earthquake.
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, says Haiti must have credible elections to maintain support from Washington and the rest of the international community.
(AP):The United Nations warned yesterday that violence is spreading across Ivory Coast, citing nearly two dozen rapes in the country's west and one case where a political opponent was sexually tortured.Local United Nation human...
BEIJING (AP):Snow and icy roads are causing travel woes in southern and eastern China ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, which unleashes the world's biggest annual human migration.Snow and freezing rain at airports in China's...
