TORTOLA (AP):Authorities found three more bodies, including that of a child, as they searched on Wednesday for survivors from a boat filled mostly with Haitian migrants that capsized amid jagged reefs.The two other victims found near the wreckage were...
WASHINGTON (AP): The chance for hundreds of thousands of foreign-born youngsters brought to the United States illegally to gain legal status is dwindling as time runs out on the Democratic-controlled Congress.House and Senate Democratic leaders...
BOGOTA (AP): The toll of confirmed deaths in Colombia's landslide has reached 47, with at least 80 people still unaccounted for. Antioquia state Emergency Management Director John Rendon tells The Associated Press ...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Obama administration's energy chief asked Congress Tuesday to consider nuclear power and other non-renewable sources in a mandate for utilities to use more clean energy, which could attract Republicans...
JOHANNESBURG (AP):South African police said they arrested 358 illegal miners Tuesday after a shoot-out at an abandoned mine shaft owned by a grandson of Nelson Mandela and a nephew of President Jacob Zuma.Captain...
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (AP):Police say that vandals have blown up a statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin in a St Petersburg suburb. The city police said the explosion late on Monday hurt no one, but left a big crack...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he had to compromise on tax cuts for the wealthy because Republicans were holding middle class Americans hostage.At a short-notice news conference...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP): Nigeria's anti-corruption agency on Tuesday charged former United States Vice-President Dick Cheney over a bribery scheme involving oil services firm Halliburton Co...
Ouagadougou (AP):Health workers will use a new vaccine to protect 20 million people in three West African countries against meningitis, a disease that kills thousands each year on the continent and leaves...
Seoul, SOUTH KOREA (AP):South Korean troops pushed ahead with naval firing drills yesterday, a day after North Korea warned the exercises would aggravate tensions between the rivals following the North's...
Maiduguri, Nigeria (AP):Authorities say a shoot-out between suspected members of a radical Muslim sect and security forces has killed three people in north-eastern Nigeria, including an eight-year-old boy.Police say the shooting...
Nairobi, Kenya (AP): Kenyan police say they want the FBI to help investigate two attacks in the country's capital in which three police officers were killed.
A motorboat overloaded with Haitian migrants slammed into a reef off the British Virgin Islands and capsized yesterday as it tried to evade authorities.
A security raid in the Russian province of Dagestan near Chechnya has left six suspected militants, a police officer and a child dead, while another policeman was killed in a separate attack, officials said yesterday.
Mexican police say armed commandos attacked two drug-rehabilitation centres in this border city across from El Paso, Texas, killing four people and wounding five.
Israel's top policewoman was lauded as a national hero and symbol of courage yesterday after succumbing to burn wounds sustained in a rescue operation during a raging forest fire.
The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, says his government plans to seize private lands to house people left homeless by the worst flooding in the country in 40 years.
A classified document released by Wikileaks has revealed that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had warned last year that donors in Saudi Arabia were the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide.
