Published:Thursday | September 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Bangladesh (AP):A speeding train plowed into two buses at a busy crossing in Bangladesh's capital yesterday, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens, a police official said.Dhaka Metropolitan Police official Mohammad...
Published:Thursday | September 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Nigeria (AP):Authorities in Nigeria say as many as 40,000 girls and women have been trafficked to nearby West African countries to serve as sex workers.
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Moldova (AP) Moldova's interim president has dissolved parliament and said new elections will be held November 28. Mihai Ghimpu said the legislature was being dissolved because...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
South Korea (AP): Kim Jong Il made his mysterious youngest son a four-star general in a promotion seen yesterday as the first step toward his ascent as the next leader of North Korea, extending the family dynasty in the reclusive totalitarian country...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Nigeria (AP) Gunmen kidnapped 15 school children on their way to class at a private school near Nigeria's oil-rich and restive southern delta, a police spokesman said yesterday.Abia state police spokesman Geoffrey Ogbonna...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Romania (AP)About 5,000 Romanian workers are protesting over austerity measures taken by the government to trim down the budget deficit amid a deep recession. Health workers, railway workers, defence employees and other...
Rapid progress Tuesday in the drilling of escape tunnels for 33 trapped miners brought smiles, hugs and cheers of "Viva Chile!" from family members and government officials, as hopes rose the men might be rescued sooner than planned.
A small-town mayor and an aide were found stoned to death Monday in a drug-plagued western state, the fifth city leader to be slain in Mexico since mid-August.
AP: President Hugo Chávez's allies won a strong majority in Venezuela's congress, but lost the two-thirds majority needed to carry out major changes on their own, according to election results...
AP:Thousands of Slovenian police, customs officers, vet-erinary inspectors and journ-alists began an open-ended strike yesterday to protest a government plan to freeze their salaries for two years.
The Israeli president, Shimon Peres, and the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have praised the former Cuban president, Fidel Castro, for his support of Israel in a series of recent interviews.
U.S. and European stocks slipped Monday amid uncertainty about the outlook of the global economic recovery, with near-record gold prices suggesting sentiment remains tense as investors seek safe assets.
Gunmen killed a town mayor near the drug-plagued industrial city of Monterrey, authorities said Friday, the fourth mayor in northern Mexico to be murdered in little more than a month.
NEW YORK (AP): A police helicopter that made an emergency landing in the water off New York City had been airborne in anticipation of President Barack Obama's arrival for the UN General Assembly.
MEXICO CITY (AP):A newspaper's stunning, front-page editorial of seeming surrender to drug capos has set off a national debate from the presidential palace to Mexico's equivalent of the water cooler, its ubiquitous town...
Colombia's military killed the field marshal and number two commander of the country's main leftist rebel group in bombing raids and combat, targeting a major encampment at the edge of the country's eastern plains, authorities...
PARIS (AP): A new study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warns that citizens of the world's richest countries are getting fatter and fatter, with the United States leading the charge.
