South Korean officials said yesterday that there have been continual movements of personnel and vehicles at North Korea's main nuclear test site, but ruled out the possibility that the country is preparing its third atomic bomb test anytime soon.
A Muslim sect suspected of a series of targeted killings and a massive prison break has issued new threats in northern Nigeria, this time invoking al-Qaida's north Africa branch.
Canadian air force officer Colonel Russell Williams has been given a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years for two murders and sexual assaults.
There's a new police chief in this violent borderland where drug gangs have killed public officials and terrified many citizens into fleeing: a 20-year-old woman who hasn't yet finished her criminology degree.
(AP): A grisly video that shows Indonesian security forces torturing suspected separatists in Papua province, burning the genitals of one and running a knife across the neck of another sparked public outcry...
Mexico (AP): Mexican security forces seized at least 105 tons of United States (US)-bound marijuana in the border city of Tijuana on Monday.Soldiers and police grabbed the drugs in pre-dawn raids in three neighbourhoods after police arrested 11 people...
Poland (AP): A man wielding a gun and a knife fatally shot one person and seriously wounded another at Poland's main opposition party yesterday amid a desperately bitter, divisive election campaign.Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the assault...
BEIJING (AP): Rescuers yesterday recovered the bodies of the last of the 37 coal miners trapped by a gas leak at a Chinese mine over the weekend. The official Xinhua News Agency reported that rescuers had found the remaining five bodies trapped...
Myanmar (AP):Foreign journalists will not be allowed into Myanmar to cover the military-ruled country's first election in 20 years, election officials said...
BEIJING (AP):At one moment, the Chinese urologist seemed to be at the height of his career: He had invented a surgical procedure to help patients overcome incontinence and was training doctors in America and elsewhere.
(AP):A super typhoon that killed 13 people and flattened forests and crops in the northern Philippines dumped heavy rains on the capital yesterday as it headed across the sea toward southern China.Typhoon Megi struck the...
California (AP):Yolo County authorities say a convicted sex offender kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl whom he met through a telephone chat room.Thirty-five-year-old Jason Sigur is being held on suspicion of kidnapping, lewd acts with...
(AP):Ethiopia is denying opposition supporters food, other aid, loans and government services in a widespread effort to suppress political dissent, Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday....
(AP): Poland's influential Roman Catholic Church appealed Monday to the country's politicians to oppose in vitro fertilisation, calling the procedure akin to eugenics.The procedure...
Ecuador (AP):Police in Ecuador say the bodies of four Cameroon citizens have been found in a house in the capital in a suspected drug-related slaying.Police Colonel Andres Benitez told The Associated Press that authorities found the bullet-riddled...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP):The Indiana Supreme Court has denied the death-row appeal of a man convicted of killing his wife, her ex-husband and her 10-year-old son 12 years ago.
JOHANNESBURG (AP):A South African journalist arrested after writing about alleged police corruption said a proposed media bill could transform a country known for being among Africa's most free and transparent to one more...
