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Published:Sunday | September 29, 2013 | 12:00 AM

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP):A major earthquake rocked Pakistan's southwest yesterday, killing at least 15 and sending panicked people running into the street just days after another quake in the same region killed hundreds, officials said.

Published:Sunday | September 29, 2013 | 12:00 AM

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP):A Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban has been honoured as Harvard University's humanitarian of the year.

Published:Sunday | September 29, 2013 | 12:00 AM

AP:It almost feels these days as if there is no safe place - that after global jihad strikes a Nairobi shopping mall or a deranged shooter invades the Washington Navy Yard, the next target could very well be our own store, school, theatre or stadium.

Published:Sunday | September 29, 2013 | 12:00 AM

MUMBAI, India (AP):Frantic relatives kept a vigil yesterday at the site of a collapsed apartment building that killed at least 42 people in India's financial capital of Mumbai, as the search for around a dozen people missing in the rubble grew bleak.

Published:Sunday | September 29, 2013 | 12:00 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):Kenya yesterday sharply criticised a decision by the United States to reissue a travel advisory for the country in the wake of the deadly attack on an upscale mall in the capital Nairobi, highlighting fears that the assault could...

Published:Friday | September 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has announced $2.5 billion in new commitments to meet United Nations goals ranging from cutting extreme poverty by half to ensuring universal primary-school education...

Published:Friday | September 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The Postal Service's proposal to raise the price of mailing a letter to 49 cents is sure to face scrutiny from lawmakers as a Senate panel considers bipartisan legislation to overhaul the cash-strapped agency.Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe's...

Published:Friday | September 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM

PITTSBURGH (AP): A western Pennsylvania woman who dropped out of school to work during the Great Depression finally has her high school diploma in time for her 103rd birthday.

Published:Thursday | September 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):The militant group behind the takeover of a Nairobi mall claimed yesterday that a Kenyan government assault team carried out "a demolition" of the building, burying 137 hostages...

Published:Thursday | September 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

BUCHAREST (AP): A bill allowing stray dogs to be euthanised is legal, Romania's constitutional court ruled yesterday, prompting hundreds of dog lovers to block a main road outside Parliament in protest....

Published:Thursday | September 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ROME (AP):Silvio Berlusconi's 28-year-old girlfriend says she courted the 76-year-old former premier relentlessly until he finally surrendered, and is now just waiting for him to agree to marry her.In an interview published yesterday in the Italian...

Published:Thursday | September 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

SAN JUAN (AP):The United States Coast Guard says it has rescued 49 Haitian migrants and two Dominicans from a sinking boat off Puerto Rico's northwest coast.Spokesman Ricardo Castrodad said yesterday that crews are still looking for possible missing...

Published:Thursday | September 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP)The French government has declared the economic crisis over and is promising that its budget for next year will bring growth and jobs, but experts are criticising the proposal from all sides and a true rebound looks a ways...

Published:Thursday | September 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

MADISON,Wisconsin (AP):State health officials are trying to help pregnant women who smoke kick the habit.Health administrators say at least 13 per cent of women in Wisconsin smoke during pregnancy.

Published:Thursday | September 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) Americans stepped up purchases of new homes in August after cutting back in July, suggesting that higher mortgage rates are not yet slowing the housing recovery.Sales of new homes increased 7.9 per cent last month to a seasonally...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2013 | 4:04 PM

US Geological Survey the 7.7-magnitude quake yesterday afternoon at a depth of 13 miles north-east of Awaran.

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

UNITED NATIONS (CMC):The Caribbean, which ranks second behind sub-Saharan Africa for HIV/AIDS infection rates, has led the world in reducing the number of new infections between the period 2005-2011...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

UNITED NATIONS, CMC: Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have pledged their commitments to ensuring the rights of the disabled community...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

BROWNSVILLE, (AP):For more than two decades, Sigifredo Saldana Iracheta insisted he was a United States (US) citizen, repeatedly explaining to immigration officials that he was born to an American father and a Mexican mother in a city just south ...

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

HONOLULU (AP):More than 20 pure-bred goats, most of them pregnant, were stolen from a Hawaii farm on a full moonlit night, with duct tape used to keep the animals from making noise, their owner said.Reports are that 23 goats valued for a total of about...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Here are details about some of the victims. Ross Langdon, an architect who worked in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania, creating eco-lodges and socially sustainable tourism in ecologically sensitive locations...

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

NAIROBI (AP):Four thunderous explosions rattled Nairobi's upscale mall yesterday, part of a battle between Kenyan troops and al-Qaida-linked terrorists.

Published:Monday | September 23, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP):Pakistan released its highest-ranking Afghan Taliban prisoner on Saturday in an effort to jump-start Afghanistan's struggling peace process, Pakistani officials said.The Afghan government has long demanded that Pakistan free Mullah Abdul...

Published:Monday | September 23, 2013 | 12:00 AM

LIMA, Peru (AP):Pope Francis has removed a Roman Catholic bishop in Peru who an influential former prelate says is suspected of sexually abusing minors. Gabino Miranda, 53, was removed as part of the new pope's "zero tolerance" policy against abuse...

Published:Monday | September 23, 2013 | 12:00 AM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP):Technical experts at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) were reviewing on Saturday a further disclosure from Syria about its chemical weapons program.A day earlier, the body that polices ...

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