CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday offered condolences after the death of former president Carlos Andrés Pérez, but also said he hopes his longtime adversary's style of governing never again returns to the South America...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP):Fears of renewed fighting grew Monday in Ivory Coast following a threat from West African neighbours to force out incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo if he does not soon heed international calls to step down from power.West African...
Two thousand travellers have been left stranded at the main Paris airport, Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, as further snow hits France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
KIRKUK, Iraq (AP):Iraqi Christians yesterday called off Christmas festivities across the country as al-Qaida insurgents threatened more attacks on a beleaguered community still terrified from a bloody siege at a Baghdad church two months earlier.
LONDON (AP): WEATHER-WRACKED Christmas travel eased in Britain on Thursday after days of snow-related delays, with most services running normally at Heathrow Airport and on cross-Channel Eurostar trains.
NEW YORK (AP): AS TRAVELLERS take to road, air and sky in the sometimes-hectic last days before Christmas, they should keep one thing in mind: It could be worse.
SAN DIEGO (AP):HEAVY RAINS have forced widespread road closures in San Diego, hampering Christmas shoppers and stranding some hotel guests.San Diego police Lt Andra Brown said the first floor of the Premier Inn flooded Wednesday, and surrounding roads...
A congress dominated by President Hugo Chavez's allies has passed a law that bars foreign funding for nongovernment organizations and political parties, adding to a series of measures that government opponents say are aimed at cracking down on dissent.
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
LONDON (AP):The Christmas travel season turned angry and chaotic on Monday as British officials struggled to clear snow and ice that paralysed rail and air links and spawned cancellations and delays stranding thousands around ...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Los Angeles (AP):Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, hunger strikes and sit-ins, a group of college students and graduates in Los Angeles say they plan to take their fight for immigrant rights to the states...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
HEFLIN, Ala (AP):His wife riding beside him with their two children in safety seats in the back, John Fisher drove home towards South Carolina along a stretch of Interstate 20 covered with ruts, bumps ...
