Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister met with the passengers' relatives in Kuala Lumpur to talk about where to go next. Financial assistance was discussed and family members were urged to submit a plan.
Well over 150,000 tourists — Romans and pilgrims, young and old — turned out for the Mass that Francis celebrated at an altar set up under a canopy on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica.
Search teams recovered a 13th body yesterday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche, a day earlier, swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak.
Divers fighting strong currents and rain were yesterday unable to get inside the ferry that sank off South Korea leaving more than 300 missing or dead .
Pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine yesterday prepared to celebrate Orthodox Easter at barricades outside government offices seized in nearly a dozen cities, despite an international agreement to disarm and free the premises.
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the detention of Cuban independent journalist Juliet Michelena Diaz. Michelena was detained three days before the publication of a bylined report she wrote for the Miami-based independent news platform Cubanet about a case of ordinary police violence she had witnessed in Havana.
One hundred and seventy four survivors have so far been rescued and Korean officials say divers are battling strong currents in poor visibility to find missing passengers.
Early this morning an avalanche swept down a climbing route on Mount Everest, killing at least 12 Nepalese guides and leaving four missing in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak.
PHUKET, (AP): Thai authorities yesterday charged two journalists with defaming Thailand's navy in an online news report about the trafficking of refugees from Myanmar, amid concerns about press freedom in the country.
UNITED STATES NEW YORK, (CMC): Minority caucuses of New York State Legislature and the City Council have written to United States Attorney General Eric Holder calling for an extensive and exhaustive investigation into the 2012 police shooting ...
NIGERIAMAIDUGURI, (AP): The fate of more than 100 girls and young women abducted by Islamic extremists was thrown into uncertainty yesterday when their school principal denied a report from Nigeria's military that almost all the students were free.
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has accused the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago (MATT) of being "selective in its criticisms" after the media group had earlier condemned what it termed "a virulent attack" on a journalist by...
MOKPO, South Korea (AP): A ferry carrying 462 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, sank off South Korea's southern coast on yesterday, leaving more than 280 people missing despite a frantic...
BEIJING (AP):Since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, some lawyers have claimed they can get several millions of dollars in damages for each lost passenger by taking the cases...
NEW YORK (AP): Muslim groups and civil-liberties advocates applauded the decision by New York Police Department (NYPD) officials to disband a controversial unit that tracked the daily lives of Muslims as part of efforts to detect terror threats...
CAIRO (AP):In his weekly sermon, Muslim cleric Ali Abdel-Moati preached to his congregation in a southern Egyptian city about the evils of making hasty judgements.
A forensics expert has told court that the girlfriend of South African double-amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius was shot in quick succession as she fell down.
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC):A High Court judge says he does not believe former prime minister Basdeo Panday should be made to face a third trial for failing to declare the assets of a London-based bank account to the Integrity Commission...
