Sri Lanka (AP): Opposition supporters protesting the arrest of their defeated presidential candidate scuffled with government-backers on the streets of Colombo yesterday before police fired tear gas and broke up the clashes. Thousands of supporters of Sri...
SOMALIA (AP):At least 11 civilians and four security officers were killed in the Somali capital yesterday in two separate incidents of violence, an officer and residents said.Islamic insurgents fired several mortars from Mogadishu's main Bakara market...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP): A series of avalanches engulfed a mountain pass in Afghanistan, trapping hundreds of people in their buried cars and killing as many as 64 people so far, authorities disclosed yesterday....
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Abidjan, Cte d'Ivoire (AP):Protesters torched a police station in western Ivory Coast while claiming their names had been removed from voter rolls in advance of this year's presidential election.Opposition leaders said yesterday's protest in the...
There are more indications that the cold weather in the United States will worsen this week with more snow forecast from a system moving over the country.
MOSCOW, Russia (AP): A Russian naval official says France will allow the sale of an advanced warship to Russia, the Interfax news agency reported yesterday.
WASHINGTON, United States (AP):A blizzard battered the Mid-Atlantic region yesterday, with emergency crews struggling to keep pace with the heavy, wet snow that has piled up on roadways, toppled trees and left thousands without electricity.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP): Many activists attending the inaugural national 'tea party' convention see Sarah Palin as the right person to carry their limited-government, low-tax, freedom-fighting mantel - if only she wanted it.
President of Toyota Akio Toyoda has apologized for the recall of millions of cars across the world and has pledged to set up a new quality control committee.
The US Transportation Department has opened an investigation into the model of motorcar manufactured by Toyota that has been found to have malfunctioning brake pedals.
The ten Americans accused of illegally trying to take children out of Haiti say they met with people they thought were Haitian policemen and a Dominican official, the week before they were stopped at the border.
Venezuela (AP):Venezuela deported alleged major drug traffickers to the United States yesterday, the country's top security official said.Suspected Colombian drug kingpin Salomon Camacho Mora, French...
Mexico (AP)Gunmen have slain a Mexican journalist, the third such killing so far this year.Albertano Guinto, the acting attorney general in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, said it was not yet clear if the death of Jorge...
