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. […]
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 […]
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