By Katerina Zachovalava Prague (dpa) – A 56-year-old man died and three people were injured in a generator blast in the Czech Republic, officials said on Thursday. The generator exploded and caught on fire in […]
By Henry Chu Los Angeles Times LONDON – Scotland Yard said Tuesday that it expected to question a top aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron in a growing scandal over a tabloid newspaper’s alleged […]
By Michael A. Memoli Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – President Obama plans to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by attending a memorial service at the Pentagon, the White House said […]
By Liz Sly Los Angeles Times BAGHDAD – Two American soldiers were killed and nine were injured Tuesday when a man wearing an Iraqi army uniform opened fire on them inside an Iraqi commando compound […]
Pat Reber Washington (dpa) – Mark David Chapman, the man convicted of shooting the famous ex-Beatle John Lennon in 1980, was denied parole on Tuesday by a New York parole panel. Chapman was sentenced to […]
By Robert Carmichael Phnom Penh (dpa) – A 20-kilogram pet crocodile was recaptured in Cambodia two days after it dug its way to freedom, media reports said Tuesday. Cambodian police told the Phnom Penh […]
By Anna Tomforde dpa LONDON – Tony Blair on Monday canceled a high-profile book-signing session of his best-selling memoirs in the British capital, amid mounting security fears and expected large-scale protests. “I’m really sorry for […]
By Ulf Mauder dpa MOSCOW – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday refused to close the door on speculation that he might seek to return to Russia’s Kremlin as the nation’s president in 2012 elections. […]
Rome (dpa) – The son of an Iranian woman who has been sentenced to death by stoning after being found guilty of adultery has appealed to the pope to intervene on his mother’s behalf, Radio […]
Sinikka Tarvainen Madrid (dpa) – The militant Basque separatist group ETA on Sunday declared a ceasefire that left the Spanish government sceptical, but enthused separatists in the Basque region. ETA decided several months ago not […]
By Kate Linthicum Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES – The woman poses in front of a shining Dodge roadster, squinting into the sun. She wears a snow-white fur stole around her neck and an uneasy […]
By Alex Rodriguez Los Angeles Times ISLAMABAD – In a nation pummeled by stifling poverty, homegrown militancy and most recently, epic flooding, the game of cricket is supposed to serve as salve, a getaway from […]
By Joseph Ax The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) HACKENSACK, N.J. – Deep in the Vietnamese jungle, about 20 miles south of Da Nang, a military recovery team has spent weeks scouring a mountainside clearing, searching for […]
By William Spain MarketWatch NEW YORK – Burger King Holdings Inc. shares jumped nearly 25 percent Thursday, rallying as the fast-food giant said it will be gobbled up by investment firm 3G Capital for $24 […]
By Brian Cox Chicago Tribune CHICAGO – Skokie, Ill., police on Thursday were continuing to look for a burglar who broke into a home then continually apologized for the crime to a woman who happened […]
By Thomas Burmeister Amsterdam (dpa) – In the second grisly case of its kind in the Netherlands in recent weeks, Dutch police said Thursday they have discovered the corpses of three new-born babies. A 41-year-old […]
Matt Tempest London (dpa) – Britain’s Foreign Secretary, William Hague, was forced to deny months of newspaper and internet speculation that he is homosexual on Wednesday. The trigger for a statement from Hague was the […]
By Ned Parker Los Angeles Times BAGHDAD – In a crystal-chandeliered palace once occupied by Saddam Hussein, American and Iraqi leaders gathered Wednesday for the latest ceremony to herald an independent, democratic Iraq. But in […]
Jochen Neumeyer, Jeff Black Berlin (dpa) – German federal prosecutors Wednesday charged a 54-year-old Austrian man with espionage, alleging he fed Russian security services with details of helicopter designs, officials said. A statement from the […]
By Robert Carmichael Phnom Penh (dpa) – A Cambodian woman has been charged with intentional killing after she admitted drowning a 6-year-old girl to steal her gold earrings worth 45 dollars, national media reported Wednesday. […]
By Sheera Frenkel McClatchy Newspapers JERUSALEM – An unidentified gunman killed four Israelis at a Jewish settlement near the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday night, just days before the U.S.-sponsored peace summit was […]
Katie Kahle Rome (dpa) – Libyan leader Moammer Gaddafi has called on the European Union to pay Libya at least 5 billion euros (6.4 billion US dollars) per year to stop illegal immigrants from Africa, […]
By Duaa Eldeib Chicago Tribune CHICAGO – It may not make for good conspiracy theory fodder, but a sunken Kennedy boat sure has a certain ring to it. River Maiden, a 59-foot steel boat registered […]
Israel’s Yediot Ahronot newspaper reported on Tuesday that Hamas has carried out in the last few days a series of tests for an advanced “Fajr” rocket. Its range can reach 80 kilometers. According to the […]
By Saeed Shah McClatchy Newspapers KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – U.S. forces lost 22 soldiers in Afghanistan, mostly to roadside bombs, since Friday, marking a bloody step-up in the insurgency as a major U.S.-led offensive seeks to […]
Kathmandu (dpa) – Seven people were killed in Nepal’s far-western district of Kalikot when a house collapsed after 24 hours of continuous rain, media reported Tuesday. The three-storey house came down Monday night, burying […]
Jakarta (dpa) – A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted Sunday for the first time in 400 years, shooting black smoke and ash up to 1,500 metres into the air and prompting the […]
By Jan-Uwe Ronneburger Santiago (dpa) – The start of drilling for a rescue shaft to reach 33 trapped Chilean miners was delayed until Monday because technical preparations had yet to be finished, the head of […]
By Hazel Parry Hong Kong (dpa) – A 13-year-old Hong Kong schoolgirl has been sentenced to a two-year probation for threatening to kill her mother for confiscating her mobile phone, a radio report said Saturday. […]
BEIJING _ More than 40 people were killed in a crash landing of a Chinese passenger plane in north-eastern China late Tuesday, state media reported. The bodies of 43 people had been recovered, Xinhua […]
By Till Mundzeck GARCHING, Germany _ Astronomers have spotted a solar system just 127 light-years from earth with at least five planets orbiting a star, the biggest system found since exoplanetary research began, the […]
By Andrea Sosa Cabrios Mexico City (dpa) – Mexican police found at least 19 bodies in the ventilation shaft of a mine near the central city of Pachuca, Mexican media reported Monday citing police officers. […]
By Girlie Linao and Hazel Parry Manila (dpa) – A sacked police officer on Monday seized a tourist bus in the Philippines with 22 Chinese nationals from Hong Kong and three Filipinos aboard, police said. […]
By Takumi Mizutani TOKYO _ Manual labor is becoming more and more difficult for Japan’s aging farmers, prompting a Tokyo professor to devise a high-tech solution: mechanize the bodies of the farmers themselves. […]
BEIJING _ Six people in China were arrested and 41 detained for distributing milk contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine, local media reported Saturday. Those arrested were found to be selling the contaminated milk […]
By Robert Carmichael Phnom Penh (dpa) – A Cambodian man killed five family members and injured three others after they prevented him from raping his 16-year-old sister-in-law, local media reported Friday. The man, identified […]
By Anna Tomforde dpa LONDON – Scotland’s Justice Minister, Kenny MacAskill, on Thursday defended his controversial decision to free the convicted Lockerbie bomber on health grounds a year ago, saying that predicting how long a […]
By Liz Sly Los Angeles Times BAGHDAD – Iraqis danced in the streets when U.S. troops withdrew from their cities a little over a year ago. After the last American combat brigade trundled across the […]
By Meg Jones Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Losing a buddy on a battlefield is a universal theme in Hollywood war films, and yet when it happens in the Afghan war documentary “Restrepo,” there’s no foreshadowing, no […]
Kuala Lumpur (dpa) – A Malaysian Islamist party asserted that Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Day celebrations encourage free sex that has led to a spate of baby dumpings that have grabbed national headlines, a […]
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