YUCAIPA, California (AP):Gerardo Barrientos and his girlfriend Lluvia Ramirez wanted time away from the suffering they see every day at a government hospital in Tijuana, Mexico.
ACAPULCO (AP):A gang of armed, masked men are being sought by Mexican police after they burst into a rented home in the Mexican resort of Acapulco and raped six Spanish tourists. Acapulco Mayor Luis Walton says the men held a group of 12 Spaniards ...
NEW YORK (AP):Prosecutors say a New York City police officer charged with seeking to kill and eat women hinted in an online chat that his wife might have been on the menu.Federal prosecutors said on Monday that Gilberto Valle engaged in a grisly...
WASHINGTON (AP): The State Department has reassigned its special envoy for closing the United States prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in another step away from one of President Barack Obama's first campaign promises.Ambassador Daniel Fried is starting...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP):A passenger jet carrying at least 20 people crashed yesterday in heavy fog near Kazakhstan's principal city, Almaty, killing all on board, the airline and officials said.The Kazakh Prosecutor-General's office...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday swiftly and unanimously approved President Barack Obama's choice of Senator John Kerry to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state....
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Former Jamaica Prime Minister PJ Patterson has called on Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders to decide on their priorities as well as set a specific time table in order to accelerate regional growth and development.Addressing the...
SANTA MARIA (AP):The repercussions of a tragic nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people in southern Brazil widened yesterday, as mayors around the country cracked down on such venues in their own cities and investigators searched two other...
SANTA MARIA (AP): There was no fire alarm. There were no sprinklers or fire escapes. And when a band member tried to put out a fire that had been started by pyrotechnics, the extinguisher didn't work....
PHNOM PENH (AP): Two more children have died in Cambodia of bird flu, bringing the number of fatal cases to four since the start of this year.The Cambodian office of the United Nation's World Health Organisation said a 17-month-old girl from central...
MEXICO CITY (AP): AN ORDER of Roman Catholic priests in Mexico has produced a video urging relatives of drug cartel victims to forgive the killers, sparking debate in a country that has suffered more than 70,000 estimated druggang killings.
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP):Mississippi's only abortion clinic said it received notice last Friday that the state Health Department intends to revoke its operating licence.
NEW DELHI (AP):In the court of public opinion, the men being tried for the gang rape of an Indian university student should be hanged in a public square.That demand for swift justice might make it impossible for them to get a fair trial in a court of law.
The French defence ministry has reported that its troops in Mali have taken control of the airport in the northern town and Islamist stronghold of Gao.The report said Gao's airport and the strategic Wabary bridge were secured, though fighting continued...
WASHINGTON (AP):Residents of Newtown, Connecticut, yesterday joined with parents, pastors, survivors of gun violence and Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a march on Washington for gun control .
CAIRO (AP):The director of hospitals in Egypt's Mediterranean city of Port Said says two soccer players are among the 27 people killed in riots there.Violence erupted in Port Said after a judge sentenced 21 people to death in connection with a February...
MOSCOW (AP):Militant Orthodox activists have attacked members of Russia's embattled gay community protesting against a planned law banning 'gay propaganda'.Russia's Parliament is to consider...
NEW YORK (AP):An esteemed religious counsellor in New York City's ultra-orthodox Jewish community was sentenced yesterday to 103 years in prison for molesting a girl who came to him with questions about her faith.Nechemya Weberman was convicted in...
LONDON (AP):Prince Harry's admission that he killed Taliban fighters while working as a helicopter gunner in Afghanistan drew intense British media coverage yesterday and sparked concerns about possible reprisals.The 28-year-old prince spoke in a pooled...
AIN AMENAS, (AP):Algeria's special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert yesterday in a "final assault" aimed at ending a four-day-old hostage crisis, the state news agency reported.
