SALT LAKE CITY (AP):More than 1,000 gay and lesbian couples in Utah have exchanged wedding vows over the past two weeks in jubilant celebrations, but the rush on same-sex marriage licences has come to an end.The United States (US) Supreme Court put a...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP): A Pakistani government official says an explosion has killed 10 members of a family in a remote tribal region in the country's northwest along the Afghan border....
LAS VEGAS (AP):Dolby, long known for pristine sound, is now trying to improve what you see.On Monday, at the International CES gadget show, the company unveiled Dolby Vision, a technology that increases...
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ (AP):Law-enforcement agents in New Jersey have redoubled efforts to fight what they worry could be one of the biggest menaces to come with next month's Super Bowl: sex trafficking...
Guatemalan journalist ordered away from vice prez - GUATEMALA CITY (AP):A Guatemalan journalist is filing a series of legal complaints against a judge's decision to grant the country's vice president a temporary restraining order...
OAKLAND, California (AP):A California judge said Friday that the mother of a 13-year-old girl who was declared brain dead after sleep apnea surgery may remove her daughter from an Oakland hospital if she assumes full responsibility for the consequences,...
HAVANA (AP): Talk about sticker shock! Cubans are eagerly flocking to Havana car dealerships as a new law takes effect eliminating a special permit requirement that has greatly restricted vehicle ownership in the country.To their dismay on Friday, the...
For more than two decades, running for Congress in this sun-soaked city of Cuban exiles has required two things: a Republican registration card and a hard line toward the Castro regime....
BEIRUT (AP):The leader of an al-Qaida-linked group that carried out attacks across the Middle East before shifting its focus to Syria's civil war died on Saturday while in custody in Lebanon, the army said....
WASHINGTON (AP):An unusual alliance of tea party enthusiasts and liberal leaders in Congress is pursuing major changes in the country's mandatory sentencing laws.What's motivating them are growing concerns about both the fairness of the sentences ...
The clashes between a loose alliance of opposition brigades and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have spread across northern Syria since they began late last week.
Opposition activists responded with attacks, strikes and transportation blockades in unrest that has already left at least 275 people dead since last year.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP):The run-up to today's general election in Bangladesh has been marked by bloody street clashes and caustic political vendettas, and the vote threatens to plunge this South Asian country even deeper into crisis.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): Authorities in Puerto Rico have arrested a man suspected in the fatal stabbing of a tourist from Ohio in the United States.Police said yesterday that they expected to soon charge 22-year-old Juan Carela Acevedo.He is...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP): Cambodia's government launched a broad crackdown on the political opposition yesterday, clearing its main protest site, banning its street demonstrations for the immediate future and having a court call in opposition party...
PANAJI, India (AP):A five-story building under construction in the southern Indian state of Goa collapsed yesterday, killing at least seven workers and leaving dozens more feared trapped under the rubble, police said.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP):An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers who were retrieved from an icebound ship in the Antarctic resumed its journey home yesterday, leaving behind another two icebreakers trapped in pack ice.T
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP):It has been decades since parts of the Midwest experienced a deep freeze like the one expected to arrive today, with potential record-low temperatures heightening fears of frostbite and hypothermia - even in a region where...
