Sun | May 24, 2026

World News

Published:Tuesday | October 15, 2013 | 9:50 AM

The death toll is currently 93. It is expected to rise as rescuers struggled to reach patients in a collapsed hospital.

Published:Tuesday | October 15, 2013 | 9:18 AM

The appeals court said the term Allah must be exclusive to Islam or it could cause public disorder.

Published:Tuesday | October 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

HELENA, Montgomery (AP):The government shutdown is slowing the wheels of justice in federal courts by delaying civil cases, forcing prosecutors to operate with skeleton staffs, and raising uncertainty about the system's immediate future if the stalemate...

Published:Tuesday | October 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee (AP):South Korean tyre maker Hankook announced yesterday that it will build its first North American plant in Tennessee, creating 1,800 jobs.Hankook, the world's seventh-largest tyre maker, said it will build the $800 million...

Published:Tuesday | October 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

CLEVELAND (AP):A terminally ill Ohio man who arrived at his daughter's wedding by ambulance gave her away from a hospital gurney.

Published:Monday | October 14, 2013 | 12:51 PM

A shutdown of the US government as a result of the political deadlock has now entered its third week.

Published:Monday | October 14, 2013 | 12:51 PM

That bill would grant a pathway to US citizenship for 11 million immigrants living illegally in the United States.

Published:Monday | October 14, 2013 | 11:51 AM

Officials say they were crushed after panic broke out on a bridge near the Ratangarh temple in Madhya Pradesh state.

Published:Monday | October 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

BOSTON (AP): Voters convincingly backed a state law that allows marijuana to be used by people with debilitating medical conditions such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

Published:Monday | October 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP):As the partial government shutdown rolls on, programmes that rely on federal money are feeling the strain and so are the people who depend on their services.For 16-year-old Alishe'ah Sockwell, federal money makes a big...

Published:Sunday | October 13, 2013 | 12:07 PM

Gunmen kidnapped a team of seven workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross after stopping their convoy early today along a roadside in northern Syria, a spokesman said.

Published:Sunday | October 13, 2013 | 10:45 AM

Senators put faith in party leaders today to devise a plan that would reopen the government and steer clear of a potential default this week.

Published:Sunday | October 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):House talks with President Barack Obama over ending the partial government shutdown and preventing a federal default have stalled, Speaker John Boehner told fellow Republicans yesterday, shifting the focus to Senate efforts to end the twin stalemates.

Published:Sunday | October 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

VALLETTA (AP):For the second time in a week, a smugglers' boat overloaded with migrants capsized in the Canal of Sicily as it made the perilous crossing from Africa to Europe.

Published:Sunday | October 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

BEHRAMPUR, India (AP):The people of India are waking today to count the damage after a massive, powerful cyclone hammered its eastern coastline with heavy rains and destructive winds yesterday. Already, five persons have been reported dead.

Published:Sunday | October 13, 2013 | 12:00 AM

MANILA (AP):A typhoon that flooded villages and farms in the Philippines' major rice-growing region yesterday killed at least 13 people.

Published:Saturday | October 12, 2013 | 12:35 PM

The US has not provided details of the operation that led to Mehsud’s capture, but officials in Afghanistan say he was held in the eastern section of the country and taken to a US military base.

Published:Friday | October 11, 2013 | 9:23 AM

Human Rights Watch says it conducted an on-site investigation and interviewed more than 35 people, including survivors and fighters from both sides of the offensive.

Published:Friday | October 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

LONDON, England (AP):The British government took another crack at curbing illegal immigration yesterday, introducing a bill that would require immigration checks to accompany private-housing applications ...

Published:Friday | October 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP):Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan was abducted by gunmen who snatched him from his hotel and held him for several hours yesterday in apparent retaliation for a US special forces raid that captured an al-Qaida suspect in the capital...

Published:Friday | October 11, 2013 | 12:00 AM

INDIANAPOLIS (AP):A new study has found that deaths in Indiana from drug misuse have quadrupled since 1999 for a jump bigger than all but three states.The study by the Trust for America's Health found Indiana had the country's 17th highest rate of drug...

Published:Thursday | October 10, 2013 | 11:45 AM

Researchers using weather observations, computer models and other data have calculated that Kingston, Jamaica, starting in about a decade, will probably be off-the-charts hot — permanently.

Published:Thursday | October 10, 2013 | 9:56 AM

The State Department says the delivery of large-scale military systems as well as cash assistance to the Egyptian government will be withheld.

Published:Thursday | October 10, 2013 | 12:00 AM

HONOLULU (AP):The Hawaii Department of Health and federal agencies are warning the public to stop using a diet supplement and have asked retailers to take the product off the shelves after reports of hepatitis and liver failure around the state,...

Published:Thursday | October 10, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (CMC):The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) yesterday urged Caribbean countries that still have the death penalty to abolish it, or at least to impose a moratorium on its application...

Pages

Subscribe to World News