U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a two-pronged warning to Asia Pacific nations Sunday, announcing that the U.S. will send two additional ballistic missile destroyers to Japan
A Chinese ship involved in the hunt for the missing Malaysian jetliner reported hearing a "pulse signal" yesterday in southern Indian Ocean waters with the same frequency emitted by the plane's data recorders, as Malaysia vowed not to give up the search for the jet.
Millions of Afghans yesterday defied Taliban threats and rain, underscoring their enormous expectations from an election that comes as the country's wobbly government prepares to face down a ferocious insurgency largely on its own.
United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon vowed yesterday that the world would not forget the Central African Republic (CAR), as he visited the country wracked by sectarian violence that has left thousands dead and forced most of the nation's Muslims to flee.
ST GEORGE'S (CMC):A survey on the use of drugs by secondary schoolchildren in Grenada has found that alcohol and marijuana were among the main substances of choice for students and that almost a third would try a substance ...
McALLEN, Texas (AP): The United States Border Patrol has shifted more than 100 agents from California and Arizona to the southernmost tip of Texas, its busiest sector for illegal immigration....
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP):Military officials say the Fort Hood gunman blamed for killing three people and wounding 16 others before taking his own life was from Puerto Rico....
Chile's army has been deployed to the northern city of Iquique after some 300 inmates escaped from a women's jail following an 8.2-magnitude earthquake yesterday.
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexican officials say the first census of the country's education system found at least a third of public schools have infrastructure problems and there are thousands of school workers who can't...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Monday said she had advised President Anthony Carmoa to revoke the appointment of her tourism minister, Chandresh Sharma...
ZAGREB (AP):Croatia's anti-graft authorities have charged the chairman of Hungary's MOL energy group, with bribing a former Croatian prime minister.Croatia's state prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime...
ARIZONA (AP):A delegation of Roman Catholic leaders celebrated Mass along the United States-Mexico border to raise awareness about immigration and to pray for policy changes...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP):It may mean little to investigators that the last words air traffic controllers heard from the lost jetliner were "Good night, Malaysian three-seven-zero", rather than "All right, good night".
SAO PAULO (AP):Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is issuing a defence of a Brazilian journalist who says she has received rape threats after launching a campaign against rape on her Facebook page.Rousseff sent a Twitter post Monday saying that...
MIAMI (AP):United States Customs and Border Protection officials say more passport control agents are coming to three airports and one seaport in Florida to help handle long immigration lines.Federal officials say the additional staffing has been...
CONNECTICUT (AP):A West Hartford man has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman he had offered to assist with an application for US citizenship.Hartford police say 66-year-old Nghi Le offered his...
LOS ANGELES (AP):After a 10-year-old California girl travelled to the Vatican to plead with Pope Francis for help as her father faced deportation, the man was released Friday on bond from immigration detention.Mario Vargas was freed from a detention...
PERTH, Australia (AP):A WARSHIP with an aircraft black box detector was set to depart Australia yesterday to join the search for the missing Malaysian jetliner, a day after ships plucked objects from the Indian Ocean to determine whether they were...
CHULA VISTA, California (AP): THE CHULA Vista school district not only measures the academic progress of Marina Beltran's second-grader, it also measures her son's body fat.Every two years, Antonio Beltran, like his classmates, steps on a scale.
