INDIANAPOLIS (AP):Planned Parenthood is suing to block a new Indiana law that tightens abortion-pill regulations, arguing that the law wrongly targets the organisation's clinic in Lafayette.
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP):In an unprecedented ruling that tests the military's aura of inviolability, a court indicted former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf Tuesday on murder charges stemming from the 2007 assassination of ex-Prime Minister...
JOHANNESBURG (AP):Neighbours, an ex-girlfriend, a member of a firearms club and a former soccer player who claims Oscar Pistorius threatened him are all named among the 107 potential state witnesses for the double-amputee...
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP):The North Carolina law banning registered sex offenders from commercial social networking sites like Facebook that children can use is unconstitutional because it's vague and violates free speech, the state Court of Appeals...
A district court judge in California has given state authorities permission to force-feed dozens of prisoners who have been on hunger strike for more than six weeks.
NEW YORK (AP): Coastal communities should assume floods are going to happen more frequently and realise that spending now on protective measures could save money later, according to a report issued by a presidential task force charged with developing a strategy for rebuilding areas damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, (CMC): Minister of the People and Social Development, Dr Glen Ramadarsingh, yesterday described as "baseless" allegations that his ministry was running a sex ring, with employees being forced to provide sex for favours.
BAHAMAS NASSAU, (CMC): The Bahamas government says there is quite a lot of misinformation regarding the detention and repatriation of migrants in the country and would not participate in any discussions with protestors in Miami.
BRIDGETOWN, (CMC): Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has again defended the policies of his ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) government and is promising Barbadians that the projects outlined in the 2013 national budget will be implemented despite the ongoing economic situation in the country.
MEXICO CITY (AP): As Mexican children trooped back to school yesterday, they had already learned one lesson: You can't believe everything you read in your textbook.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP): Nearly 4,800 young people in Utah have been given temporary reprieves from deportations under President Barack Obama's deferred action initiative that was launched one year ago.
WASHINGTON (AP): Unemployment rates rose in more than half of US states last month and fewer states added jobs, echoing national data that show the job market may have lost some momentum. The Labour Department said yesterday that unemployment rates increased in 28 states.
MANILA, (AP): Torrential rains brought the Philippine capital to a standstill yesterday, submerging some areas in waist-deep flood waters and making streets impassable to vehicles, while thousands of people in northern regions fled to emergency shelters.
CEBU, Philippines (AP):As the MV Thomas Aquinas cruised toward Cebu city in the central Philippines, navy marshal Richard Pestillos prepared for a brief stop while some passengers watched a band and others soaked in the night breeze on the deck.Then the...
ISLAMABAD (AP): Pakistan's government has halted all state executions temporarily, just a week ahead of the planned hangings of several al-Qaeda-linked militants.
CAIRO (AP): After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like "prisoners of war" before a Muslim woman offered them refuge...
Members of Congress are split over whether the U.S. should cut off military aid to Egypt, highlighting the difficult choices facing the Obama administration.
CAIRO (AP):Egyptian authorities are considering disbanding the Muslim Brotherhood group, a government spokesman said yesterday, once again outlawing a group that held the pinnacle of government power just more than a month earlier.
BOISE, Idaho (AP):A wind-driven wildfire burned its way through sage and pine trees near the Idaho mountain resort community of Sun Valley yesterday as sheriff's deputies expanded evacuation orders to 1,600 homes.
ISLAMABAD (AP):A Pakistani court yesterday dismissed charges against a cleric who accused a young Christian girl of blasphemy and who was arrested last year for allegedly forging evidence against her, his lawyer said.The case had brought new spotlight...
CEBU (AP): Divers combed through a sunken ferry yesterday in a desperate search for dozens of people missing after a collision with a cargo vessel near the central Philippine port of Cebu....
