Last Updated: April 2, 2011 1:39pm
By REUTERS
Southwest Airlines grounded 81 aircraft from its Boeing 737 fleet for inspection after a gaping hole in the fuselage forced one of its planes to make emergency landing in Arizona on Friday, the company said on Saturday.
Last Updated: April 2, 2011 10:47am
By REUTERS
Thousands of street parties will be held across Britain to celebrate Prince William’s marriage to Kate Middleton next month, local government officials said on Saturday, as royal wedding fever grips parts of the country.
Last Updated: April 2, 2011 10:08am
By QMI Agency
The FBI has asked for help to decipher a note found in the pocket of a homicide victim discovered in a Missouri field 12 years ago.
Last Updated: April 2, 2011 12:47pm
By Ange Aboa and Loucoumane Coulibaly, REUTERS
Soldiers of Ivory Coast’s rival leaders battled for the main city Abidjan on Saturday, clashing by the presidential palace and state TV offices in a conflict so brutal that 800 people have died in one smaller town alone.
Last Updated: April 2, 2011 12:00am
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Last Updated: April 2, 2011 1:16pm
By Chizu Nomiyama and Chisa Fujioka, Reuters
Japan’s prime minister made his first visit to the country’s tsunami-devastated region on Saturday as officials grappling to end the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl said they may have discovered why radiation has been leaking into the sea.
Last Updated: April 2, 2011 12:31pm
By ISMAIL SAMEEM, Reuters
At least 10 people have been killed and 83 wounded in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said on Saturday, on a second day of violent protests over the burning of a Qur'an by a radical fundamentalist Christian in the United States.
Last Updated: April 1, 2011 2:52pm
Prince William has reportedly opted out of the modern-day tradition of men wearing wedding bands.
Last Updated: April 1, 2011 12:28pm
By REUTERS
A dog that survived in a house swept away to sea three weeks ago by the devastating Japan tsunami was saved on Friday by a coast guard rescue team flying over an island of debris.
Last Updated: April 1, 2011 9:43am
By REUTERS
Celebrity polar bear Knut died by drowning, the Berlin Zoo said on Friday, as thousands of outraged fans planned a demonstration on Saturday against the zoo’s plan to stuff the animal. Knut, who won worldwide fame as a cute cub who defied long odds of surviving after his mother rejected him, died suddenly in front of hundreds of stunned visitors on March 19, aged four, after he fell unconscious into a pool of water at his enclosure.
Last Updated: April 1, 2011 9:52am
By Phil Noble, REUTERS
Britain’s Prince William has admitted to feeling nervous and daunted as he looks forward to his wedding to Kate Middleton in four weeks’ time.
Last Updated: April 2, 2011 11:42am
By Maria Golovnina and Alexander Dziadosz, Reuters
A Western coalition air strike hit a group of rebels on the eastern outskirts of Brega late on Friday, killing at least 10 of them, rebel fighters at the scene said on Saturday.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 4:59pm
By Brigitte Pellerin, Parliamentary Bureau
Gun control in Canada usually means restricting firearms and imposing regulations on their owners. In South Carolina, lawmakers are loosening the rules.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 2:33pm
By Dan Wiessner, Reuters
Seven U.S. winners of the $319 million Mega Millions lottery said Thursday they are still deciding whether to split it with five unlucky co-workers who chose not to play this time around.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 5:28pm
By REUTERS
The killer whale that last year drowned a trainer at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, performed publicly Wednesday for the first time since the death.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 1:04pm
By REUTERS
Britain’s Prince Harry revealed on Thursday his family thought his elder brother William would never take the plunge and marry Kate Middleton.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 3:58pm
By Yereth Rosen, Reuters
Diabetic pilot Douglas Cairns plans a flying expedition to the North Pole to show what those with his illness can accomplish in the air.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 1:08pm
By Reuters
German police said on Thursday they had detained a 25-year-old man suspected of planning a bomb attack outside a soccer stadium in the western city of Dortmund.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 1:04pm
By Ayesha Rascoe, Reuters
Not yet a year after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, Republicans are renewing efforts to drill for oil and gas in a fiercely contested Alaskan wildlife refuge.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 9:53am
By Reuters
The warm-up to France’s 2012 presidential election intensified on Thursday when Francois Hollande said he would run for the Socialist Party ticket against his former partner Segolene Royal
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 10:12am
By Reuters
As many as 5,000 prisoners escaped from the main jail in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital Abidjan on Thursday following a gun battle, residents and a military source told Reuters.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011 9:58am
By Eva Dou, Reuters
Speaking English is increasingly a basic requirement for participating in international business, but a new study shows large gaps in English skills around the world.
Last Updated: March 30, 2011 9:18pm
By QMI Agency
A morbidly obese man is dead after he was found fused to a chair that he had been stuck on for two years.
Last Updated: March 30, 2011 12:37pm
By Reuters
Thieves stole four diamonds worth several million dollars from a trader’s stand at the world’s biggest watch and jewellery fair in Basel on Wednesday, prosecutors said.
Last Updated: March 30, 2011 12:40pm
By Reuters
The U.S. and Mexican governments Wednesday announced multimillion dollar rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the shooting of two U.S. immigration agents.