JOHANNESBURG (AP):A 16-year-old who believes she was kicked out of class for speaking her first language at school has prompted government investigations, and the case is demonstrating how volatile the issue...
Colombia's military killed the field marshal and No. 2 leader of the country's main leftist rebel group in bombing raids and combat at a major guerrilla encampment at the edge of the country's eastern plains, authorities announced Thursday.
A federal judge ordered mental competency testing on Thursday for an Army veteran accused of threatening President Barack Obama and then falsely claiming to have a bomb during a standoff in southern Illinois.
Published:Thursday | September 23, 2010 | 12:10 PM
United States President Barack Obama has pledged a revamp of US foreign aid policy to help lift nations out of poverty by focusing on good governance and encouraging trade and investment.
Published:Thursday | September 23, 2010 | 12:08 PM
The US government says it plans to file new charges against several executives involved in Texan financier Allen Stanford's multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme.
United States Federal authorities are considering whether to prosecute a former securities regulator in Texas, for repeatedly blocking investigations of Allen Stanford’s offshore banking empire.
Published:Wednesday | September 22, 2010 | 4:16 PM
A report by three U.N.-appointed human rights experts Wednesday said that Israeli forces violated international law when they raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla killing nine activists earlier this year.
Published:Wednesday | September 22, 2010 | 1:02 PM
The Vatican says the seizure by police of euro23 million ($30 million) from a Vatican bank account and the investigation of two top bank officials is due to a misunderstanding that should be clarified quickly.
Published:Wednesday | September 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
JERUSALEM (AP): New Palestinian violence could erupt if peace talks collapse after this weekend's expiration of an Israeli settlement slowdown, the Israeli military chief warned yesterday....
Published:Wednesday | September 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
ST.JOHN'S, Newfoundland (AP): Hurricane Igor pelted eastern Canada with heavy rain yesterday, flooding communities, washing out roads and stranding some residents...
Published:Wednesday | September 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
CAIRO (AP): Al-Qaida's North Africa branch claimed responsibility in an audio message broadcast yesterday for kidnapping five French nationals that disappeared in the deserts of Niger last week...
Published:Wednesday | September 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Afghanistan (AP):A helicopter carrying international troops crashed in a rugged section of southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing nine service members in the deadliest such incident in four years for coalition...
Published:Wednesday | September 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Greece (AP):A Greek parliamentary committee probing a real-estate scandal has summoned former Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to testify as a witness.No date was set yesterday for the appearance...
Published:Wednesday | September 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP): Senate Republicans yesterday blocked legislation that would have repealed the law banning gays from serving openly in the United States military.The partisan vote was a defeat...
British forces in Afghanistan have handed over responsibility for security in Sangin to US forces, marking the end of their four-year mission in the area.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP):Dutch police yesterday arrested a British man of Somali ancestry at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport for possible links to a terrorist group, a spokesman for the Dutch prosecutors...
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP): Chile's president said yesterday that his government has done everything within its power to rescue 33 miners trapped underground for 47 days and counting, but would not venture...
Published:Saturday | September 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM
LONDON (AP):British police arrested five London street cleaners over an alleged threat to Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, the second day of a papal trip to Britain that has brought both a warm welcome from Catholics and renewed anger over the clerical sex...
Published:Saturday | September 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM
NEW ORLEANS (AP):After five months, the oil well that had spewed millions of gallons into the Gulf of Mexico is on the verge of being plugged once and for all.A relief well drilled nearly 2.5 miles (4 kilometres) beneath the floor of the Gulf of Mexico...
