INDIANAPOLIS (AP):NATHAN SLINKARD was five years old when his mother failed to return him to his father as an Indiana court had ordered.On Tuesday, the 23-year-old man was back home with his father, about a week after he walked into the United States...
NEW YORK (AP) IT HAS been 10 years since a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg created a website called Thefacebook.com to let his classmates find their friends online...
WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama is praising CVS Caremark for its decision to stop selling tobacco products at its drugstores. Obama said CVS is setting a "powerful example", and said the decision will help his administration's efforts to reduce...
BEIRUT (AP): MEN PULL a girl from the rubble and haul her on to a dirty sheet of plastic, while another child, coated in white dust save for a red streak of blood from his nose, lies with his crushed leg...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP): Candidates to replace Afghan President Hamid Karzai faced off yesterday in the first televised debate of a crucial election campaign ahead of the planned withdrawal of NATO combat troops.
LOS ANGELES (AP):Benedict Cumberbatch is a star used to working with other stars, but even he was impressed by the cast of a new project.The British actor of Sherlock and Star Trek fame appears with a pair of Sesame Street Muppets in a video posted...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP):Candidates to replace Afghan President Hamid Karzai faced off yesterday in the first televised debate of a crucial election campaign ...
WASHINGTON (AP):The Food and Drug Administration is using ads that depict yellow teeth and wrinkled skin to show the nation's at-risk youth the costs associated with cigarette smoking.The federal agency said yesterday that it was launching...
TRENTON, New Jersey (AP):High-profile Republicans were adamant Sunday that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie should not resign from his post as chairman of the Republican Governors Association following a former ally's claim that there is evidence...
BILLINGS, Montgomery (AP): Republicans in Congress on Tuesday called for an overhaul to the Endangered Species Act to curtail environmentalists' lawsuits and give more power...
The executors of Nelson Mandela’s will have revealed that the former South African President left an estate provisionally valued at 46 million rand or US$4.1 million.
ATHENS, Greece (AP):A STRONG earthquake with a preliminary magnitude between 5.7 and 6.1 hit the western Greek island of Kefalonia before dawn Monday, sending frightened residents into the streets just over a week after a...
MOSCOW (AP):A 10th-grade student with two rifles burst into his Moscow school on Monday, killing his geography teacher and a policeman in front of about 20 students, investigators said.
PHILADELPHIA (AP):Some schools closed and air traffic was disrupted in Ohio, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast as another winter storm bears down on the eastern United States only a day after temperatures soared into the 50s...
CHICAGO (AP):GAY AND bisexual teen boys use illicit steroids at a rate almost six times higher than do straight kids, a "dramatic disparity" that points up a need to reach out to this group, researchers say.Reasons for the differences are unclear.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP):Saudi Arabia put into effect a sweeping new counterterrorism law yesterday that human rights activists say allows the kingdom to prosecute as a terrorist anyone who demands reform, exposes corruption or otherwise engages...
MUNICH (AP) :United States (US) Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Ukraine, confronting a political crisis and massive anti-government protests, should be free to align with Europe if it wants and not feel coerced by more powerful...
Protesters shut hundreds of Bangkok polling stationsBANGKOK (AP):Protesters trying to derail Thailand's national elections yesterday forced the closure of hundreds of polling stations in a highly contentious vote that has become the...
MOUNT SINABUNG, Indonesia (AP): The death toll from an Indonesian volcano that has been rumbling for months rose to 16 yesterday after rescuers found another charred corpse and a critically injured college student died in a hospital, officials said....
ATLANTA (AP):A 34-year-old man is accused of using a tow truck to take cars that were abandoned in Atlanta during the winter storm and traffic jam.Police said Louis Mitchell Jr was arrested last Thursday and charged with auto theft, forgery and other...
Wearing masks, helmets and protective gear on the arms and legs, radical activists are the wild card of the Ukraine protests now starting their third month.
Syrian "barrel bombs" buried people underneath rubble in four different areas of the city, including near a mosque, and a vegetable market. One bombing killed 10 people in the rebel-held neighborhood
BANGKOK (AP):Gunfire rang out across a busy intersection in Thailand's capital for more than an hour yesterday as government supporters clashed with protesters trying to derail tense nationwide elections one day before the vote was set to begin.
