JINDO (AP):South Korea's president apologised yesterday for the government's inept initial response to a deadly ferry sinking, as divers fought strong currents in their search for nearly 100 passengers still missing, nearly two weeks...
TUPELO, Mississippi (AP):After spawning deadly tornadoes that flattened homes and businesses in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, a storm system that also caused havoc in the Midwest had Georgia in its sights early yesterday....
One of the tornadoes touched down Sunday about 10 miles west of Little Rock, Vilonia at around 7 p.m., then carved an 80-mile path of destruction as it passed through or near several suburbs.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says, the new phase will focus on searching the ocean floor over a much larger area as it is highly unlikely that any debris will be found on the ocean surface.
JINDO (AP): South Korea's president accepted her prime minister's resignation yesterday over the government's handling of a deadly ferry sinking, although she didn't set a last day in office. In an extraordinary resignation statement to reporters...
MANILA (AP):The United States (US) and the Philippines have reached a 10-year pact that would allow a larger US military presence in this South-east Asian nation as it grapples with increasingly tense territorial disputes with China, according to two...
An estimated 800,000 people — many of them from John Paul's native Poland — filled St. Peter's, the streets around it and bridges over the Tiber River.
The resignation offer comes amid rising indignation over claims by the victims' relatives that the government didn't do enough to rescue or protect their loved ones.
CAIRO (AP):An Egyptian court has sentenced 11 alleged supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president to up to 88 years in prison on charges that include violating a protest law and assaulting police.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP):The Afghanistan presidential elections are headed for a runoff after full preliminary results released yesterday showed the front-runners failed to win to a majority and avoid a second round of voting.
GEORGETOWN (AP):Authorities in Guyana say they will soon establish a suicide-prevention hotline to help reduce the number of suicide attempts and deaths in the South American country.
The divers today found the bodies of 48 girls wearing life jackets in a cabin with a capacity of 30, indicating many ran into the same room when ship tilted. This has pushed the death toll to 185.
HOUSTON (AP):A Nigerian who for years fought extradition to Texas has pleaded guilty to recruiting students in his homeland to internally smuggle heroin into the United States...
ST GEORGE'S (CMC):Guyanese-born journalist Rawle Nelson has been granted EC$100,000 (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) bail by a magistrate court on Wednesday on charges of stealing, forgery and uttering a false document.Magistrate Karen Noel also...
WASHINGTON (AP)Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and 21 other Republican senators accused President Barack Obama yesterday of displaying "an astonishing disregard for the Constitution, the rule of law and the rights of American citizens" by...
JINDO (AP) Angry relatives of some of the more than 130 people still missing from the sinking of the ferry Sewol surrounded the fisheries minister and the coast guard chief yesterday, preventing them from leaving the area where families...
