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 […]
By Nehal El-Sherif, Shabtai Gold Nasiriyah, Iraq (dpa) – Simply wearing jeans, listening to pop music or having too much fun in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah now can can elicit the […]
Berlin (dpa) – Because your eyes move faster than your arms, an optical device may one day steer your car around sudden, sharp curves the instant you see the danger ahead, according to a team […]
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By John M. Glionna BEIJING _ Chinese officials declared Sunday a national day of mourning to remember the more than 1,200 people killed by recent flooding that still held parts of the country in […]
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By Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times JOHANNESBURG – A former university librarian on Thursday said he wanted to kill as many Americans as possible in bomb attacks that killed 76 people in the Ugandan capital […]
By Jacel Lepiarz dpa WARSAW – Polish police said Thursday that a suspected Israeli Mossad agent accused of helping obtain a fake passport used in the killing of a Hamas leader has been extradited to […]
By Matt Helms, Gina Damron, Zlati Meyer and Elisha Anderson Detroit Free Press FLINT, Mich. – Police have a man in custody in connection with the serial stabbings that left as many as five dead, […]
Jeff Black, Helen Maguire Berlin (dpa) – The impending online availability of Google’s novel Street View mapping technology for 20 of Germany’s largest cities has unleashed a wave of unease – in a country long […]
By Paul Walsh and Abby Simons MINNEAPOLIS _ Barely old enough for junior high, a 12-year-old rural Minnesota girl may be charged with DWI, according to authorities. She was at the wheel of […]
By Michael Logan Nairobi/Washington (dpa) – A notorious Ugandan rebel group has abducted hundreds of villagers in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced them to fight, Human Rights Watch […]
By Nadeem Sarwar Islamabad (dpa) – A second wave of floods is passing through Pakistan’s rivers and may affect more areas in the central province of Punjab, the head of the Pakistan Meterological Department said […]
By Lennart Simonsson dpa STOCKHOLM – Sweden’s anti-corruption unit has received six complaints into wedding gifts received by Princess Victoria and her husband on their recent honeymoon, the unit told the German news agency dpa […]
By Jim Souhan Star Tribune (Minneapolis) HAVEN, Wis. – He’s never looked weaker, not when limping around Torrey Pines or even while holding ersatz news conferences as his personal life imploded. Tiger Woods walked off […]
By Batsheva Sobelman and Jeffrey Fleishman Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM – In the most gripping testimony yet before a commission investigating the deadly commando raid on a Gaza Strip bound humanitarian aid flotilla, Israel’s chief […]
Ksenija Prodanovic Sarajevo/Belgrade (dpa) – Bosnian officials said Wednesday that the remains of 20 bodies had been found in the manmade lake of Perucac, located between Bosnia and Serbia. The head of the Bosnian Institute […]
Warsaw (dpa) – “Are you for or against the cross?” Poles ask each other as they gather for heated debate in front of the presidential palace. That question is at the […]
Manila (dpa) – Rescuers recovered Wednesday three bodies of crewmen from a cargo ship that sank last weekend in the central Philippines, a coast guard report said. Eight crew members were […]
By Rachel Bernstein Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES – Patients with brain tumors don’t have many good options – surgery and radiation can damage crucial parts of the brain, and chemotherapy drugs don’t easily cross […]
McClatchy-Tribune News Service As a nation of immigrants, the United States has long held that people born on U.S. soil become citizens – with the notable exception of the period when slavery was legal. But […]
Mike McCarthy Washington (dpa) – The United States is drawing up a 30-billion-dollar sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia despite Israeli concerns about the proposed package, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The centerpiece of […]
By Richard A. Serrano Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – The youngest prisoner at the U.S. Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is scheduled to stand trial Tuesday on allegations of killing a U.S. soldier and […]
By Bill Smith Beijing (dpa) – Soldiers were searching the rubble of collapsed buildings for some 1,300 missing people on Monday after floods and landslides hit north-western China’s Gansu province. Premier Wen Jiabao travelled […]
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