Incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has demanded that all foreign peacekeepers leave the country immediately, escalating a dispute over last month's presidential election.
Julian Assange the founder of whistle blowing website Wikileaks has accused the United States of aggressively and illegally investigating him and his site.
Officials in the US state of Oklahoma have executed a prison inmate using a drug cocktail that includes a sedative typically used to euthanize animals.
BRUSSELS (AP):The European Parliament moved yesterday to freeze the assets of Russian officials involved in the death in prison of a corporate lawyer, and urged Russia to do more to punish those who commit crimes against Kremlin critics.
JUBA (AP):Three bomb attacks in Southern Sudan this month, made by aircraft from the northern Sudanese military, violated Sudan's 2005 peace agreement, a joint north-south committee has concluded, a United Nations (UN)...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP): Gunfire and explosions shook Ivory Coast's main city yesterday as supporters and security forces loyal to the two men claiming to be president clashed in the streets, killing at least 15 people and bolstering fears the world's...
ELGIN, Illinois (AP):To those who know her, it's no surprise that Hannah Perryman would keep working for stalking victims, though her own ordeal is over.But the rapid pace of happenings since she came forward to tell her story several weeks ago is...
The United States Senate has approved a controversial $858 billion tax cut package, overwhelmingly voting to extend the Bush-era tax reductions, despite a series of objections from both the left and the right.
New York (AP): The FBI is offering its resources to assist New York homicide investigators chasing a possible serial killer after four women's bodies were found dumped alongside a remote beach highway.
Baghdad (AP):Iraqi authorities have obtained confessions from captured insurgents who claim al-Qaida is planning suicide attacks in the United States (US) and Europe during the Christmas season, two senior officials disclosed yesterday....
Moscow (AP):Fearing more clashes between racist hooligans and ethnic minorities, Russian police detained 1,000 people in a stand-off near a Moscow train station yesterday, taking a strong stance against far right extremists after weekend rioting left...
Sydney (AP): A wooden boat packed with asylum seekers smashed against jagged rocks in a storm off an Australian island yesterday, flinging terrified occupants into churning waters and killing at least 27...
Canadian police and military teams were working late last evening to rescue about 300 people stranded after what a local official termed the most brutal storm to hit the Ontario region in 25 years.
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP):Police in Kansas City say a suspected carjacker chained a man to his front porch before driving off in his red Chevy Camaro.The man's wife told KMBC-TV her husband went out 6:30 a.m.
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
MOBILE, Alabama (AP):A WOMAN was due in court on Tuesday to face charges that she tortured her common-law husband's two young children before they were killed and dumped in wooded areas in Alabama and...
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
HOPE, Arkansas (AP):THE HOME in Hope where Bill Clinton spent the first four years of his life will officially be a national historic site as of January 2.Organisers worked for years to earn the status for the Clinton First Home Museum on Hervey Street.
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP):IMPRISONED FINANCIER Bernard Madoff will not seek to attend his son's funeral out of consideration for the privacy of his son's wife and four children, his lawyer said on Monday.Attorney Ira Sorkin said Madoff instead will mourn privately...
Published:Wednesday | December 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Dhaka (AP):At least 27 people were reportedly killed after a devastating blaze raced through a garment factory that supplies major multinationals such as Gap and JCPenney near Bangladesh's capital yesterday....
