Mexico (AP):A video posted online shows the kidnapped brother of a former Mexican state attorney general claiming at gunpoint that he and his sister worked for a drug gang.The video posted on YouTube shows Mario Gonzalez...
Slovenia (AP): Slovenia has elected its first black mayor, an immigrant from Africa known as the 'Obama of Piran', the town where he lives. In fact, Peter Bossman, a Ghana-born physician...
(AP):Oil skimmed by villagers from a leaky pipeline caught fire in central Myanmar, setting off a powerful explosion that threw people and drums into the air and killed 14 people, state-run television reported yesterday...
Poland (AP):Polish officials say bodyguards have been assigned to protect some politicians after officials found that the man who killed an opposition party activist last week had a hit list.
China (AP):Security was tightened yesterday at schools in western China following demonstrations last week by Tibetan students who marched to protest reported plans to impose Chinese as the primary language...
Nigeria (AP): Another police officer has been shot to death in northern Nigeria as authorities try to stop a radical Muslim sect accused of committing the targeted killings.
British Petroleum (BP) says it plans to sell four Gulf of Mexico oil fields to Japanese company Marubeni as part of its asset sale to help pay for the oil spill there.
One man was electrocuted and his female partner severely burned, after they attempted to steal copper wire from a vacant building in Southern California on the weekend.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP): Three bystanders died in the crossfire of a shoot-out between gunmen, police and soldiers in northern Mexico yesterday.The victims were a 14-year-old boy and two women aged 18 and 47...
BAGHDAD, Iraq(AP):Iraq's highest court yesterday ordered parliament back to work after a virtual seven-month recess, intensifying pressure to break the political stalemate that has held up...
BERLIN, Germany (AP):Somali pirates seized a German freight ship off the coast of Kenya yesterday, the second commercial vessel to be captured in the region in as many days, officials said. The pirates took control of the...
Finance ministers from the G20 leading economies have agreed to reforms of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), giving major developing nations more of a say.
Unions in France have called for two more days of protests against the government’s plans to increase the age of retirement, as lawmakers cut through red tape to try to make the proposal law within days.
France (AP): The European Court of Human Rights condemned Russia yesterday for letting Moscow ban gay pride marches simply because the city's then-mayor, who famously compared gays to the devil, and other officials disapproved of them.
An outbreak of severe diarrhoea in rural central Haiti has killed at least 54 people and sickened hundreds more who overwhelmed a crowded hospital yesterday seeking treatment.
