WELLINGTON (AP): United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday urged the Senate to move quickly in a lame-duck session to ratify a new arms control treaty with Russia.Visiting the capital of New Zealand,...
MAIDUGURI (AP):Immigration officials say they've deported 700 illegal immigrants from northern Nigeria to prevent them from casting votes in next year's presidential election.
HARARE (AP):A pride of lions fatally mauled a tourist while he showered under a tree as darkness fell at an unfenced campsite in a nature reserve, a conservationist said yesterday.
SINGAPORE (AP): Qantas grounded its Airbus A380 fleet after one of the superjumbo jets blew out an engine yesterday, shooting flames and raining large metal chunks before making a safe emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard....
ALBANY, New York (AP):The fight for control of New York's Senate is coming down to just a few hundred votes, with Republicans already declaring they seized control in Tuesday's elections.Even Democratic Governor...
SAO PAULO (AP):A wave of alleged hate messages posted on Twitter immediately after Brazil's presidential elections must be investigated, a federal prosecutor said yesterday. Janice Ascari said she...
MUMBAI, India (AP):A Delta flight landed in emergency conditions in Mumbai yesterday after a report of suspicious cargo on board, an Indian official said."The security agencies are checking the cargo," said airport spokesman...
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP):In another grisly turn in Mexico's drug war, police have recovered 18 bodies from a mass grave announced in a YouTube posting, a video saying the victims were from a tourist group kidnapped in Acapulco...
Forensic investigators searched for more hidden graves Thursday near where they had already found 18 badly decomposed cadavers that are suspected to belong to Mexican tourists who had set out for Acapulco.
Croatia (AP): Six alleged members of a crime gang were convicted yesterday of conspiring to assassinate a well-known journalist and a fellow worker in downtown Zagreb on October 23, 2008, which shocked Croatia as it was recovering from a war.
Afghanistan (AP): Taliban militants carried out three attacks against Afghan security forces yesterday, targeting a police station, a border patrol and an army checkpoint in strikes that left 12 people dead, officials said.
WASHINGTON (AP): President Barack Obama faced America's new political order with a call for compromise on Wednesday following what he described as a Democratic "shellacking" in United States elections.
Venezuela (AP):A government health official said a team of specialists believe 17 Yanomami Indians have died in a malaria outbreak in the last three months, a toll considerably lower than initially reported by indigenous health workers.
Authorities say a head-on collision between two buses traveling along a pothole-rutted rural highway in northern Nigeria has killed at least 33 people.
ndidates plunged into feverish, final-day campaigning Monday in congressional elections that were expected to strip Democrats of their majority in the House of Representatives and snarl President Barack Obama's agenda in the final two years of his term.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is chairing a meeting of the government's emergency planning committee, Cobra, as calls grow for a full review of airport security.
The United States Homeland Security Department says new aviation security measures are being taken after suspicious packages were found in Britain and Dubai today.
