More than a day and half after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing, no debris from the plane had been found, and the final minutes before it disappeared remained a mystery.
Carlos Salamanca fled Venezuela's growing political turmoil in January with his wife, two teenage children and $7,000. Two months into their journey to the United States, he and his wife are sleeping most nights in an old, worn Nissan.
Russia was yesterday reported to be reinforcing its military presence in Crimea as Moscow's foreign minister ruled out any dialogue with Ukraine's new authorities, whom he dismissed as puppets.
Vietnamese air force pilots yesterday spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people had crashed.
Foreign ministry officials in Rome and Vienna confirmed today that names of two nationals listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand.
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact over the South China Sea early this morning on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact over the South China Sea early this morning on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Valentina Matvienko, the speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament, made clear today that the country would welcome Crimea if it votes in the referendum to join its giant neighbor.
HAVANA (AP):Cuba's foreign minister on Thursday formally accepted a European Union (EU) invitation to begin talks on improving ties, and expressed concern over upheaval in key ally, Venezuela,...
OXON HILL, Maryland (AP):Returning to the national stage for the first time since scandal erupted in his home state, a tough-talking New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Thursday that Republicans must "take on" the media directly as the GOP works to...
LAGOS (AP):Four young men were convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment Thursday in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, a human rights activist said.The four were among dozens caught in a wave of arrests after Nigeria strengthened its...
A neighbour of Oscar Pistorius has testified at his murder trial that he found the South African Paralympic star praying over the body of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp as she lay dead.
Antiretroviral drugs were reportedly administered to the baby in California just four hours after birth. The unidentified nine-month-old child is now said to be HIV negative.
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP): Oscar Pistorius asked a friend to take the blame after a pistol was accidentally fired in a Johannesburg restaurant weeks before the double-amputee runner fatally shot his girlfriend...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP): A transgender teenager who said he was beaten and sexually assaulted in a California high school bathroom recanted the story, police said on Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP):Russia is unlikely to pull back its military forces in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, analysts and former Obama administration officials say, forcing the United States (US) and Europe into a more limited strategy of trying to prevent...
WASHINGTON (AP):The Obama administration took steps Wednesday to support the defences of United States (US) allies in Europe in response to Russia's takeover of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense...
WELLINGTON (AP):They may look like guts stuffed in cellophane, but five fish hauled up from near-record depths off the coast of New Zealand are providing scientists with new insights into how deep fish can survive.In a paper published this week in the...
ALBANY, New York (AP):Under pressure from gun-control advocates, Facebook agreed Wednesday to delete posts from users selling illegal guns or offering weapons for sale without background checks.A similar...
The prosecution is trying to prove that Pistorius intentionally killed his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp during an argument on Valentine's Day last year.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP):In a sombre show of United States (US) support for Ukraine's new leadership, Secretary of State John Kerry walked the streets Tuesday where nearly 100 anti-government protesters were gunned down by...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP):The first witness in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial broke down in tears Tuesday, saying she still remembers the terrified screams of a woman on the night the double-amputee athlete killed his girlfriend by shooting four...
