By Ashley Powers Los Angeles Times LAS VEGAS – When Sen. Harry Reid introduced Michelle Obama on Monday, he referred to the first lady as “the closer.” Reid and Pennsylvania Senate hopeful Joe Sestak certainly […]
By Celia Rivenbark McClatchy-Tribune News Service Poor Joe Biden. A video gone viral and produced by Yahoo News shows a series of man-on-the-street interviews in which the majority of people asked couldn’t recall the name […]
By Henry Chu Los Angeles Times LONDON – Britain and Germany stepped up their aviation security measures Monday to try to close gaps exposed by last week’s airplane bomb scare. Both countries were layover points […]
By Troy Wolverton San Jose Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. – Google’s Android software continued its rocket-like ascent over the summer, ending the third quarter with the dominant market share in the United States among […]
By Britta Guerke dpa LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was released Monday from hospital after a nearly two-week stay for a flu infection, with her spokeswoman saying she was completely recovered. Thatcher, […]
Mike McCarthy Washington (dpa) – Iran’s use of a Russian-built nuclear reactor shows that the country does not need its own programme for producing nuclear fuel and enriched uranium, the US State Department said Tuesday. […]
By Wolfgang Dahlmann, Hubert Kahl and Jean-Baptiste Piggin dpa OBERHAUSEN, Germany – Paul, the German octopus who found fame during this year’s soccer World Cup by predicting eight correct successive match winners, has died, his […]
By Jerry Hirsch Los Angeles Times If you are in the market for an expensive German luxury car, think again, Consumer Reports warns in its annual ranking of auto reliability Tuesday. “The larger (European) manufacturers, […]
By Sheera Frenkel McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday made his first public offer to renew a moratorium on settlement construction, a move that Palestinians disparaged but that showed […]
By Stefan Korshak dpa (MCT) KIEV, Ukraine – Ukrainian police have detained a woman suspected of trying to sell her 2-year-old daughter to human organ traffickers, the Interfax news agency reported Monday. The woman, 28, […]
By Janet Stobart Los Angeles Times (MCT) LONDON – More than five years after a flurry of rush-hour bombings killed 52 people on London subway trains and a bus, an official inquest finally opened Monday […]
By Dion Nissenbaum McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) TORKHAM, Afghanistan – For more than a week since a U.S. helicopter strike killed two Pakistan paramilitary soldiers, Pakistan has blocked scores of Western supply convoys on the vital […]
By Lawrence J. Haas WASHINGTON – No one should expect allies to always agree. The United States and Britain tangled over strategy during World War II, and the Soviet Union did not always see eye […]
By Frank Rafalski and Jeff Black dpa (MCT) BERLIN – The assertion made by German President Christian Wulff last weekend that Islam “belonged” in Germany has unleashed a new wave of debate over immigration and […]
By Geraldine Baum Los Angeles Times (MCT) NEW YORK – During his sentencing Tuesday to life in prison, Faisal Shahzad – a Pakistani immigrant who gave up a secure suburban life in America to become […]
Jeff Abramowitz Tel Aviv (dpa) – Documents newly-published to mark anniversary of the 1973 October war have revealed how pessimistic leading Israeli military figures were at the start of hostilities with Egypt and Syria. Former […]
Eva Krafczyk, Helen Maguire Nairobi/Berlin (dpa) – A German terrorism suspect has been arrested in Kenya and deported home, the German Foreign Office confirmed on Tuesday. Kenyan media reported that police sources thought the Muslim […]
By Michael Muskal Los Angeles Times (MCT) LOS ANGELES – Guess what television star is floating a political trial balloon (certainly inflated a bit with his own hot air), looking ahead to the 2012 presidential […]
By Kim Geiger Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT) WASHINGTON – More than two decades after President Ronald Reagan had a solar water heating system removed from the White House roof, President Barack Obama will become the […]
By Thomas Burmeister dpa AMSTERDAM – Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders goes on trial Monday for inciting racial hatred, as his party – the third largest in parliament following June elections – prepares to work […]
Wellington (dpa) – Former Fiji prime minister Mahendra Chaudhryhas been arrested and charged with breaching public emergency regulations which bar public meetings, according to reports from thecapital Suva on Sunday. Chaudhry, who was ousted by […]
By Ron Grossman Chicago Tribune (MCT) CHICAGO – Some might assume that the idea of a Rahm Emanuel candidacy for mayor would be cause for celebration along Devon Avenue, the longtime rialto of Chicago’s Jewish […]
By Jeff Black dpa (MCT) BREMEN, Germany – Germany on Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of reunification, and President Christian Wulff used the occasion to address a simmering controversy about immigration and integration. On Oct. […]
By Mery Mogollon and Chris Kraul Los Angeles Times (MCT) CARACAS, Venezuela – Despite a strong showing by opposition candidates, President Hugo Chavez’s supporters maintained control of Venezuela’s congress in national elections, according to preliminary […]
By Robert Faturechi Los Angeles Times (MCT) LOS ANGELES – Disneyland has agreed to allow a company intern to wear her religious headscarf at work, according to a Muslim rights group that intervened after the […]
Colombo (dpa) – A man shot dead a female teacher inside a school Thursday in south-eastern Sri Lanka and then used his gun to take his own life, police said. The shootings took place […]
By Weedah Hamzah Beirut (dpa) – Gunmen have kidnapped a Lebanese priest near the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt and are demanding a ransom in return for his release, Lebanese radio reported Thursday. Lebanon’s […]
By Pham Trung Bac Hanoi (dpa) – Police in Vietnam arrested four alleged members of an international human-trafficking ring and freed six women they were escorting to Singapore, a police official said Thursday. The […]
By John Grafilo Manila (dpa) – Six civilians were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a house in the southern Philippines, a police spokesman said Thursday. Two people were also injured in the […]
By Jean-Baptiste Piggin Berlin (dpa) – A pilot was killed in a mid-air collision at a German air show on Saturday, police said. One of the two planes in the collision remained airborne, but […]
By Henry Chu Los Angeles Times (MCT) LONDON – Pope Benedict XVI arrived Thursday in Britain to an enthusiastic reception by fellow Roman Catholics and promptly warned the country not to let rampant secularism swamp […]
MOSCOW (dpa) – Police are reopening the case of a Russian opposition journalist and politician seven years after his mysterious death, Interfax news agency reported Thursday. It quoted a spokesman for the investigators as saying […]
By Yigal Schleifer Istanbul (dpa) – Eight passengers in a commuter van were killed when the vehicle was hit by an explosion, Turkey’s state-run Anatolian Agency reported Thursday, quoting local officials. Three passengers were […]
By Christi Parsons Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT) WASHINGTON – President Obama, who has worked to shield his daughters from the spotlight, will publish a children’s book later this fall framed as a letter from him […]
Bangkok (dpa) – A helicopter filming a Thai television documentary crashed into the Chao Phraya River Saturday after hitting an electricity wire, slightly injuring four on board, police said. The state-run National Broadcasting Television […]
By John Grafilo Manila (dpa) – Four people were killed when their homes were swept away by floods in the southern Philippines, police said Saturday. A 7-month-old baby was also missing in the flooding […]
Sao Paulo/Caracas (dpa) – Searchers found the body of a Venezuelan governor on Saturday, a day after his car rolled off a highway into a river. The body of Willian Lara was found downstream from […]
By Shelby Grad LOS ANGELES – Britney Spears is denying allegations in a sexual-harassment lawsuit filed by a former bodyguard alleging that she mistreated her two children, saying L.A. County social workers investigated and found […]
By Luisa Yanez MIAMI – The pastor of a Florida church announced Thursday he is calling off his plans to burn copies of the Quran on Saturday – the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. […]
By Michael Logan NAIROBI, Somalia (dpa) – U.S. marines stormed a German container ship being held by Somali pirates and freed its 11 crew members in the early hours of Thursday morning, a U.S. naval […]
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