Blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng returned home Thursday after a four-year prison stint to find that very little had changed — he was cut off from communication, monitored by security agents, his family still harassed and intimidated.
The third Mexican mayor in a month was slain by suspected drug gang hitmen on the same day the U.S. secretary of state raised hackles in Mexico by saying the country is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago."
The police in Nigeria are now searching for 680 inmates who escaped from a prison in the northern region of the country after gunmen attacked the facility.
British Petroleum (BP) has cited what it calls a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties, for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:11 PM
The top two national security advisers in President Barack Obama's Cabinet on Wednesday denounced plans by a small church in Florida to burn the Muslim holy book to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, saying it would inflame tensions.
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 10:59 AM
Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire Tuesday, killing at least 15 workers and wounding eight, Honduran authorities said.
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
UNITED NATIONS (AP)The United Nations (UN) reported more than 500 rapes in eastern Congo in the past month - more than double the number previously reported.UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Atul Khare told the UN Security Council Tuesday...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP):The White House said yesterday that a Florida church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger United States (US) troops abroad, while the State Department denounced the idea as "un-American" and said it would put...
The top US commander in Afghanistan has warned that the lives of troops will be in danger if an American church sticks to its plan to burn copies of the Koran.
North Korea has responded to an offer from South Korea for emergency food and medical aid, saying it would prefer to receive rice and building materials.
Police in Ecuador say 15 people were killed and at least seven injured when a drunken man drove an SUV into a crowded bus stop in the coastal city of Guayaquil.
Suicide bombers struck a Baghdad military headquarters yesterday and killed 12 people, two weeks after an attack on the same site pointed to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their security.United States troops at the...
NAHUALA (AP):Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala, some of them rescuers who had come to save people already trapped by a wall...
