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. […]
By Richard Winton LOS ANGELES _ A woman who attacked actor Leonardo DiCaprio with a broken beer bottle was ordered to stand trial Thursday. Aretha Wilson, 40, is accused of attacking DiCaprio with […]
By Jason Garcia ORLANDO, Fla. _ A New Hampshire family who witnessed the Feb. 24 death of a killer-whale trainer at SeaWorld Orlando has sued the company in state court in Orlando, claiming their […]
By Hudson Sangree and Queenie Wong SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ The landing didn’t seem so bad at first. There was a loud thud. The pilot said the plane had blown a tire, and people […]
By Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton LOS ANGELES _ A man with two knives pounded on the door of Paris Hilton’s home Tuesday morning, according Los Angeles Police Department sources. The incident occurred […]
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 Todd Spangler WASHINGTON _ A 22-year-old woman accused of hitting U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., in the face with a pie last week will have her case suspended while government investigators decide whether […]
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. […]
San Francisco (dpa) – A concertgoer died in an apparent suicide when he jumped from the roof of an amphitheatre onto the stage where a folk music duo was performing, the San Francisco Chronicle reported […]
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 Pat Curry and Jonathan Bullington CHICAGO _ Does this mean the honeymoon is over? Some of the guests attending a wedding reception at a Skokie banquet hall Wednesday night apparently didn’t hold […]
By Andrew Blankstein and Kate Linthicum LOS ANGELES _ Who was Jean M. Barrie, the woman whose steamer trunk stored for decades in the basement of an L.A. apartment building contained the mummified remains […]
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 […]
Madrid (dpa) – A bull leapt into the stands at an arena in northern Spain and ran amok, injuring 40 spectators, media reports said. The bull jumped onto the wall at the side of […]
By Sunrita Sen New Delhi (dpa) – The death toll in a road crash in the northern Indian hill state of Himachal Pradesh has risen to 40, police said Thursday. Twenty-one women and seven […]
By Dawn C. Chmielewski and Jessica Guynn Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES – Google revolutionized the way people access information. Now it wants to transform how people get entertainment. The search giant is touting an […]
By Barbara Demick Los Angeles Times BEIJING – A North Korean military aircraft crashed into a cornfield in northeastern China about 100 miles from the border, the Chinese government said Wednesday. Analysts believed the flight […]
By Alvise Armellini dpa BRUSSELS – Belgium is set to embark on a radical plan to sterilize most cats in the country by 2016, an official said Wednesday, confirming a report by the Sud Presse […]
Gustavo Ondarza La Paz (dpa) – Former Bolivian president Juan Pereda Asbun was arrested for flashing a group of minors in a suburb of the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and police […]
By Michael Logan Nairobi/Dar es Salaam (dpa) – Tanzanian police are holding a Kenyan man on suspicion of attempting to sell a teenage albino for his body parts, reports said Wednesday. Attacks against albinos […]
By John Grafilo Manila (dpa) – Philippine police on Wednesday formed a panel to investigate a police officer allegedly caught on video torturing a crime suspect. The officer had been relieved of duty and […]
Sid Astbury Sydney (dpa) – If Jessica Rudd’s novel is made into a film, the female lead would have red hair and the man she knifes to become prime minister would have a blond mop. […]
By Sheera Frenkel McClatchy Newspapers JERUSALEM – A man reportedly threatened Tuesday night to kill himself and several hostages at the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv before security personnel overpowered and captured him. Nadim Injaz, […]
Anna Tomforde London (dpa) – If all publicity is good publicity, Tony Blair should count himself lucky that his decision to donate millions from his forthcoming book launch to injured soldiers has placed him – […]
Kathrin Lauer Bucharest (dpa) – Romania ordered a Russian diplomat out of the country Tuesday in a tit-for-tat expulsion for the arrest of an alleged Romanian spy in Moscow. The foreign ministry said the first […]
By Mark Magnier Los Angeles Times NEW DELHI – India’s BlackBerry users breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday as word spread that their beloved smart-phone devices would keep beeping after Aug. 31, the deadline New […]
By Dion Nissenbaum McClatchy Newspapers KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., arrived in Kabul on Tuesday for another tough diplomatic mission to smooth over newly strained relations between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and […]
By Sid Astbury Sydney (dpa) – A 31-year-old Australian was killed by a shark Tuesday as he surfed in the early morning near Gracetown, 270 kilometres south of the west coast city of Perth. […]
By Nadeem Sarwar Islamabad (dpa) – Three people have died at relief camps for Pakistan’s flood victims as diseases started to spread, media and health officials said on Tuesday. Relief workers are scrambling to […]
By Shabtai Gold Baghdad (dpa) – At least 40 people were killed Tuesday morning when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an Iraqi army recruiting centre in Baghdad, officials were quoted by local media […]
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