A Taliban bombing inside an army compound in northwest Pakistan killed at least 20 troops yesterday, officials and militants said, in one of the deadliest attacks to target the country's forces as they battle insurgents in its volatile frontier.The...
Egypt's prosecutors yesterday referred to trial, the country's former Islamist president on charges of insulting the judiciary and defaming its members to spread hate, the fourth case filed against Mohammed Morsi since his July ouster, the state news...
Two explosions shook an anti-government demonstration site in Thailand's capital yesterday, wounding at least 28 people in the latest violence to hit Bangkok as the nation's increasingly bloody political crisis drags on....
Suicide bombings last month in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, about 400 miles from where the Sochi Games will be held, have contributed to the safety anxiety.
A Taliban attack against a popular Kabul restaurant killed 21 people, officials said yesterday, in the deadliest attack against foreign civilians since the war began nearly 13 years ago.
San Francisco (AP):Video from the helmet camera of a firefighter responding to the crash-landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco shows that at least one rescuer was aware someone was on the ground outside the aircraft and even warned a...
PARIS (AP):France's first lady has ended a more than weeklong stay at a hospital where she went to rest after a gossip magazine's report about an alleged affair between President François Hollande and an actress.
ISTANBUL (AP):The main, Western-backed Syrian opposition group voted yesterday in favour of attending a coming peace conference aimed at ending the country's bloody civil war, paving the way for the first direct talks between the rival sides in the...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP):A court in Bangladesh has ordered three journalists of a pro-opposition newspaper held in detention on charges of publishing a false story that alleged Indian security forces had joined Bangladeshi troops in a crackdown before the...
Four-year-old Myls Dobson, who was reportedly in the care of 27-year-old Kryzie King, was found dead last week in a Manhattan apartment bathroom floor.
GLENDORA, California (AP):Structures burned in a wildfire and threatened dozens of homes in dangerously dry foothills of Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains yesterday.Television images showed several...
GENEVA (AP):The Vatican came under blistering criticism from a United Nations (UN) committee Thursday for its handling of the global priest sex-abuse scandal, facing its most intense public grilling to date over allegations that it protected pedophile...
Egypt's Christian minority rally behind charter - AZIYAH, Egypt (AP):Hymns echoing from the new church in this village in Egypt's southern heartland could be heard well after sundown, a reminder of the jubilant mood as Aziyah's...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP): Video FOOTAGE from the helmet camera of a firefighter responding to the crash landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco shows at least one rescuer was aware someone...
WASHINGTON (AP):The House has approved a bill that would require the Obama administration to report weekly on how many Americans have signed up for health-care coverage.The vote was 259-154 on Thursday.
Palestinian mosque vandalised in West Bank - JERUSALEM (AP):Palestinians in the West Bank say a mosque has been vandalised in an apparent attack by a fringe group of extremist Jewish settlers.Local religious leader Salah Jodeh told The...
WASHINGTON (AP):PRESIDENT BARACK Obama is expected to endorse changes to the way the government collects millions of Americans' phone records for possible future surveillance, but he'll leave many of the specific adjustments for Congress to sort out...
MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP):BEHIND THE facade of pristine ski slopes, craft beer, quaint village greens, and one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, Vermont is grappling with painkiller and...
FIVE DECADES and $1 billion after an infamous racial episode made Little Rock, Arkansas, a national symbol of school segregation, the legal fight to ensure that all of its children receive equal access to education is almost over....
ROSWELL, New Mexico (AP): STUDENTS ESCAPING chilly winter temperatures in southeastern New Mexico were congregated in the Berrendo Middle School gym, waiting for classes to start when they heard a loud pop....
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP): Chris Pine says the United States (US) should have done more in the run-up to the Sochi Olympics to protest Russia's anti-gay legislation...
