NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Terrified shoppers huddled in back hallways and prayed they would not be found by the Islamic extremist gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside Nairobi's top mall yesterday....
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) The Mexican government searched for victims and continued assessing the damage yesterday from the one-two punch of storms Manuel and Ingrid, as a missing Federal Police helicopter working on the rescue was found crashed....
BAGHDAD (AP)Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, struck a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighbourhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at...
WASHINGTON (CMC):The Unied States (US) Department of State says Jamaicans and Haitian are among nationals not eligible to apply for the 2015 Diversity Visa Programme (DV-2015).In making the announcement on Wednesday, the department also pointed out that...
ACAPULCO (AP): Mexico's government said 58 people were missing after a massive landslide smashed through a tiny coffee-growing village deep in the country's southern mountains, where fresh waves of rain threatened.
WASHINGTON (AP): Even as the economy shows signs of improvement and poverty levels off, new US census data suggests the gains are halting and uneven. Depending on education, race, income, and even marriage...
ASUNCIÓN (AP):As one of the richest men in one of Latin America's poorest countries, Paraguay's new president says he knows the wealthy can do more to combat poverty, starting with landowners like him who can afford to pay taxes on the soy profits that...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2013 | 12:00 AM
Charity awarded grant to help immigrants - RICHMOND, Virginia (AP):Commonwealth Catholic Charities Inc has been awarded a $250,000 grant to support its programme to help immigrants achieve United States (US) citizenship.
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2013 | 12:00 AM
UNITED STATES (AP):Walgreen Co is joining a growing push from big businesses to shift more responsibility for finding insurance on to their employees as health-care costs continue to climb.The nation's largest drugstore chain disclosed yesterday that it...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2013 | 12:00 AM
ACAPULCO, (AP):Thousands of exhausted, hungry and increasingly despondent tourists lined up late into the night on a muddy road outside a military base for a chance to get home on one of two precious air bridges out of this famed beach resort isolated...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2013 | 12:00 AM
ATHENS (AP):Thousands of civil servants marched through the Greek capital and the second largest city of Thessaloniki yesterday, as a two-day nationwide strike against planned job cuts shut down all public services....
MIAMI (AP):Florida's higher-education leaders are adding their voices to the immigration debate.Eighteen of the state's college presidents signed a letter last week asking Florida's congressional delegation to pass an immigration overhaul.
WASHINGTON (AP):Police say at least 12 people have died in the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard.DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier said during a news conference yesterday that 12 people were confirmed dead.Lanier says people were told to stay in their...
CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP):A five per cent increase in the high school graduation rate among males in West Virginia could save $100 million each year in crime-related costs, as well as boost the state's economy, according to a national policy...
Hurricane Ingrid makes landfall on Mexico's coastMIAMI (AP):Ingrid has made landfall on Mexico's coast near La Pesca, weakening from a hurricane to a tropical storm.
LUCKNOW, INDIA(AP) In a country where many girls are still discouraged from going to school, Sushma Verma is having anything but a typical childhood....
As many as three gunmen opened fire Monday inside one of the US Navy's oldest buildings, attacking office workers at a heavily guarded military facility in the heart of the nation's capital.
TIRANA, (AP):Albania's new Socialist prime minister has easily won approval for his government in parliament, pledging to fight poverty and unemployment and take the country closer to the European Union in the next four years....
