Foreign adoptions by Americans decline sharply
NEW YORK (AP)—The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents plunged by 18 percent last year to the lowest level since 1992, due in part to Russia’s ban on adoptions by Americans. Adoptio...
March 23, 2014
NEW YORK (AP)—The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents plunged by 18 percent last year to the lowest level since 1992, due in part to Russia’s ban on adoptions by Americans. Adoptio...
HOSN, Syria (AP)—The Syrian Army ousted rebels from a massive Crusader fortress after several hours of fierce fighting, killing at least 93 of them as they fled to neighboring Lebanon, an army comm...
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon says racial discrimination remains “a dangerous threat” and is urging countries and people around the world to follow the lesson of Nelson...
ROME (AP)—Pope Francis has a warning for Italy’s mobsters: They will go to hell if they don’t repent and renounce their “blood-stained money and blood-stained power.” The pontiff on Frida...
HAVANA (AP)—Cuba is giving hundreds of thousands of medical workers raises that in some cases exceed 100 percent, official media on the island announced Friday, though pay remains much lower than w...
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP)—Pakistani police say at least 25 people died and over 30 were injured in a multivehicle collision involving two trucks and two passenger buses on a coastal highway in the coun...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)—The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics face “challenging deadlines,” the head an IOC inspection committee said Friday, adding that a meeting with top government officials this wee...
CAIRO (AP)—Egypt’s largest university expelled two dozen students for allegedly taking part in violent protests on campus earlier last week, the state news agency reported Friday, as supporters o...
BEIRUT (AP)—Syrian troops captured a famed Crusader castle near the border with Lebanon on Thursday, running the two-starred government flag high above the stone ramparts of the 12th-century fortre...
DUBLIN (AP)—A former Irish Republican Army commander was charged Friday in connection with the 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of a Belfast woman, a politically explosive crime because of...
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP)—New Mexico environmental regulators are blocking two companies from digging up an Alamogordo landfill in search of a rumored cache of what some consider the worst Atari video ...
PARIS (AP)—A stolen Rembrandt masterpiece valued at more than $5 million has been found in Nice and returned to its rightful owners after 15 years in the wilderness. The haunting chiaroscuro oil p...
SEOUL (AP)—North Korea launched 30 short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast Saturday, South Korea said, in the latest in a series of apparent protests against ongoing U.S.-South Korean m...
BEIJING—The Chinese administration of President Xi Jinping is taking a cautious attitude toward a tripartite summit meeting of Japan, South Korea and the United States, scheduled during the Nuclear...
NEW DELHI (AP)—A strong earthquake shook an area east of India’s Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal on Friday evening, officials said. There were no immediate reports of serious damage or casua...
BRUSSELS (AP)—Two almost simultaneous signatures Friday on opposite sides of Europe deepened the divide between East and West, as Russia formally annexed Crimea and the European Union pulled Ukrain...
JOHANNESBURG (AP)—Oscar Pistorius is selling the house where he killed Reeva Steenkamp to raise money for his legal bills, the athlete’s lawyer said Thursday. Pistorius has not returned to the ...
BANGKOK (AP)—Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled Friday that a general election held in February was invalid, setting the stage for a new vote and dealing another complication to the country’...
Visitors are dwarfed by Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on Friday. The $450 million building opened to public on Friday after years of debate about transforming the surrounding historic area with an ...
BRUSSELS (AP)—European Union nations on Thursday agreed on a sweeping policy to fight tax evasion after tiny Luxembourg dropped its reservations to new rules which render its secretive banking cult...
ROME (AP)—Rome’s iconic Spanish Steps are getting a makeover. High-end jeweler Bulgari is donating €1.5 million ($2 million) to the city of Rome to restore the staircase that connects the swa...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP)—A U.S. Army general who had a three-year affair with a captain and had two other inappropriate relationships with subordinates was reprimanded and docked $20,000 in pay Thursd...
SEATTLE (AP)—Seattle police on Thursday released previously unseen images showing drug paraphernalia from the scene of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s suicide 20 years ago. Police spokeswoman Re...
ROME (AP)—Italian authorities say they have rescued more than 4,000 would-be migrants at sea over the past four days as the war in Syria and instability in Libya spawn new waves of refugees. The ...
CARACAS (AP)—Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has used the military, legislative and judicial power consolidated during 15 years of socialist rule in a sudden series of blows against opponents w...
BEIJING (AP)—U.S. First lady Michelle Obama tried her hand at Chinese calligraphy Friday during a visit to a high school in Beijing at the start of a weeklong visit to China aimed at promoting educ...
BANGUI (AP)—The United Nations’ top human rights official warned Thursday that the hatred between Christian and Muslim communities in Central African Republic is “at a terrifying level” and a...
KABUL (AP)—Four men with pistols stuffed in their socks attacked a luxury hotel in Kabul on Thursday, opening fire in a restaurant and killing nine people, including four foreigners, officials said...
YANGON (AP)—Myanmar will hold by-elections later this year to fill 28 unoccupied parliamentary seats, its top elections official said Thursday, letting contending parties test the political waters ...
NEW DELHI (AP)—An Indian court convicted five men Thursday for raping a photojournalist and a call-center operator last summer inside an abandoned textile mill in the financial hub of Mumbai, cases...
WASHINGTON (AP)—U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered economic sanctions against nearly two dozen members of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and a major Russian bank that provides them su...
NEW YORK (AP)—Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law recounted the night of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the Al-Qaida leader sent a messenger to drive him into a mountainous area for a meeting inside a...
VIENNA (AP)—U.S.-Russian tensions over Ukraine spilled over into nuclear talks with Iran Wednesday, with Moscow’s chief envoy at the negotiations warning that his country may take “retaliatory ...
CAIRO (AP)—Egyptian security forces raided a warehouse suspected of being a militants’ bomb factory on Cairo’s outskirts, sparking an hours-long battle Wednesday with gunmen that left two milit...
NEW YORK (AP)—It’s called the chicken from hell: a birdlike dinosaur about 2.1 meters tall that weighed around 226 kilograms when it roamed western North America on its long, slender hind legs. ...
JERUSALEM (AP)—Israeli warplanes unleashed a series of airstrikes on Syrian military posts early Wednesday, killing one soldier and wounding seven in one of the most serious clashes between the cou...
WASHINGTON (AP)—The U.S. government’s top intelligence lawyers on Wednesday renewed assurances that Congress is adequately monitoring government surveillance programs. But it’s suddenly an awkw...
HELSINKI (AP)—A 19-year-old Finnish supermarket cashier with millions of Internet fans of her language imitation YouTube video is heading for America hoping her gibberish hit will open up a new car...
NEW YORK (AP)—U.S. prosecutors in New Jersey charged the managing clerk of a New York City law firm and a Morgan Stanley stockbroker with netting nearly $6 million through an insider trading scheme...
LONDON (AP)—A former News of the World reporter who was convicted of phone hacking told a British court Wednesday that the tabloid’s editor, Andy Coulson, authorized payments for the illegal eave...
WASHINGTON—For President Barack Obama, Russia’s aggressive annexation of Crimea is testing central tenets of his foreign policy philosophy: his belief in the power of direct diplomacy, his prefere...
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—Russia and the United States exchanged threats Wednesday at a tense U.N. Security Council meeting over the Ukraine crisis, with Moscow’s envoy warning that the U.S. ambassador...
BOGOTA (AP)—The embattled leftist mayor of Bogota lost his bid to stay in office Wednesday as President Juan Manuel Santos refused to heed a ruling by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. ...
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Surrendering to Russia’s inexorable seizure of Crimea, Ukraine announced plans Wednesday for mass troop withdrawals from the strategic peninsula as Moscow-loyal forces s...
WASHINGTON—Following are excerpts from an interview with Fiona Hill, Director, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. Putin has a very different worldview. ...
WASHINGTON (AP)—The National Security Agency has been recording all of a foreign country’s phone calls, then listening to the conversations up to a month later, The Washington Post reported Tuesd...
CAIRO (AP)—An Egyptian court on Tuesday convicted four police officers in the deaths of 37 detainees, most of them supporters of the ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who suffocated in a po...
VIENNA (AP)—Iran and six world powers focused Tuesday on what an EU official called the “nitty-gritty” of a deal meant to curb Tehran’s nuclear program and end sanctions on the Islamic Republ...
WASHINGTON—In the weeks since the Ukraine crisis began, culminating in Tuesday’s decision by Russia to annex Crimea, President Vladimir Putin has ignored every gauntlet the United States and its ...
MOSCOW (AP)—Russian President Vladimir Putin made his case for taking Crimea back from Ukraine and explained his decision to defy the West despite the threat of sanctions. He also spoke to concerns...
WASHINGTON (AP)—Fourteen men were charged with operating an online child exploitation network that investigators said preyed upon hundreds of boys across the United States and overseas, authorities...
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—Politically fueled ethnic violence in South Sudan since mid-December has led to the brutal killing and abuse of thousands of civilians and sparked a government campaign to vilif...
WELLINGTON (AP)—The plane must be somewhere. But the same can be said for Amelia Earhart’s. Ten days after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared with 239 people aboard, an exhaustive interna...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — Ten days after a Malaysian jetliner disappeared, Thailand’s military said Tuesday it saw radar blips that might have been from the missing plane but didn’t report it “beca...
NEW YORK (AP)—The universe was born almost 14 billion years ago, exploding into existence in an event called the Big Bang. Now researchers say they’ve spotted evidence that a split-second later, ...
BANGKOK (AP)—Thailand’s government on Tuesday lifted a state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding areas after violence related to the country’s latest political crisis eased. The Cabinet h...
NEW YORK (AP)—L’Wren Scott, a fashion designer and celebrity stylist who was Mick Jagger’s girlfriend, was found dead in Manhattan on Monday in what was being investigated as an apparent suicid...
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Barack Obama pressed visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Monday to help break the logjam to elusive Mideast peace talks, acknowledging with a deadline fast approac...
COLOMBO (AP)—Sri Lankan anti-terrorist police have arrested two prominent human rights activists in the government’s latest crackdown on rights defenders, colleagues and a media advocacy group sa...
MOSCOW (AP)—With a historic sweep of his pen, President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty Tuesday to annex Crimea, describing the move as correcting past injustice and a necessary response to what he ...
LABWEH, Lebanon (AP)—The Lebanese Army sent commandos to the tense border with Syria on Monday, as fears rose that the ongoing flight of rebels from one of their fallen strongholds into a flashpoin...
PRETORIA (AP)—Oscar Pistorius once said he mistook the sound of a washing machine for an intruder and went into “combat mode” in his house, a South African guns expert testified Monday at the a...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—A Mormon women’s group pushing for gender equality was informed Monday that its members won’t be allowed to protest on church property at an upcoming Church of Jesus Christ ...
CARACAS (AP)—Security forces on Monday took control of a Caracas plaza that has been at the heart of antigovernment protests that have shaken Venezuela for a month. Clusters of National Guardsmen...
TRIPOLI (AP)—U.S. Navy SEALs seized an oil tanker off the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, stopping an attempt by a Libyan militia to sell the shipload of crude in defiance of the Libyan government....
PYONGYANG (AP)—China’s top negotiator on North Korea’s nuclear programs has arrived in Pyongyang. No details of the purpose of the trip, which began Monday, were immediately announced by North...
NEW YORK (AP)—Tony award-winning Broadway composer Mitch Leigh has died. He was 86. Leigh’s assistant, Lisa Maldonado, says the writer of the music for the celebrated hit “Man of La Mancha”...
BUCHAREST (AP)—Romania’s president said Monday that Russia has created a chain of conflicts around the Black Sea to further President Vladimir Putin’s goal of rebuilding the former Soviet Union...
BELGRADE (AP)—The ruling center-right party that has vowed to overhaul Serbia’s struggling economy and push for membership in the European Union won a landslide victory in a parliamentary vote Su...
NEW YORK (AP)—The DNA of a baby boy who was buried in Montana 12,600 years ago has been recovered, and it provides new indications of the ancient roots of today’s American Indians and other native...
NATICK, Mass. (AP)—They call it the holy grail of ready-to-eat meals for soldiers: a pizza that can stay on the shelf for up to three years and still remain good to eat. Soldiers have been asking ...
NEW DELHI (AP)—The main opposition candidate for Indian prime minister will contest next month’s elections from a revered Hindu holy city, a decision that analysts said was a sign of his commitme...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP)—Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas only faces bad options, from his perspective, as he heads into a White House meeting Monday with U.S. President Barack Obama. He could a...
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Obama administration last year increasingly censored government files or outright denied access to them under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of...
MOSCOW (AP)—Investigators in Russia say at least 14 people in a village in the Far East have died of apparent methanol poisoning after drinking counterfeit liquor. Officials in the Krasnokamensk r...
NEW YORK (AP)—St. Patrick’s Day festivities were in full swing Sunday with the usual merriment of bagpipes and beer, but political tensions lingered in the northeastern U.S., where city leaders w...
SEOUL (AP)—North Korea fired 25 short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast Sunday in an apparent continuation of protests against ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills, South Korean of...
NEW YORK (AP)—As workers tried to clear away the last of the rubble that once was two New York City apartment buildings, a pair of congregations gathered to mourn Sunday—one for its lost church a...
HELSINKI (AP)—Thousands of people have protested against fascism in southwestern Sweden, calling for dialogue and tolerance. Left-wing and antifascist groups organized the demonstration in Malmo a...
KINGSTON (AP)—A Jamaican juror has been charged with attempted bribery in a high-profile murder trial of top dancehall reggae star Vybz Kartel, police on the Caribbean island said Sunday. The Jam...
CAIRO (AP)—Egypt’s interim leader on Sunday said that the general public opposes the inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood in the political process because he said it uses violence. In a wide-ran...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP)—Australia took the lead Monday in searching for the missing Boeing 777 over the southern Indian Ocean as Malaysia requested radar data and search planes to help in the unprecedent...
SAN SALVADOR (AP)—El Salvador’s Supreme Electoral Court has declared an ex-guerrilla from the country’s civil war the president-elect after a tight, contested runoff. The court late Sunday al...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Fireworks exploded and Russian flags fluttered above jubilant crowds Sunday after residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. The Uni...
SAN DIEGO (AP)—Veterinarians at the San Diego Zoo have performed an operation on a newborn gorilla that was delivered by cesarean section. The zoo says the two-kilogram female was born Wednesday b...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP)—Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armored vehicles Saturday took control of a village near the border with Crimea on the eve of a referendum on whether the re...
ALGIERS (AP)—About 100 Algerian activists from a new antigovernment movement staged a rare protest Saturday against the ailing president and his decision to run for a fourth term. While there was...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP)—Malaysian authorities on Sunday were examining an elaborate flight simulator taken from the home of one of the pilots of the missing jetliner, after it was established that whoever...
CAIRO (AP)—An Egyptian singer known for his antigovernment songs said Saturday that authorities stopped him from performing at an arts festival attended by the country’s interim president and mil...
NEW DELHI (AP)—India’s top court on Saturday temporarily stayed the hanging of two of the four men convicted for the 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi. The Suprem...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP)—A Pakistani judicial official reduced on Saturday the 33-year jail sentence of a doctor alleged to have helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden to 23 years, one of his la...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP)—Residents of Ukraine’s Crimea region voted on Sunday in a contentious referendum on whether to split off and seek annexation by Russia. The vote is regarded as illegiti...
NEW YORK (AP)—Emergency workers sifted through debris Saturday from the site of a deadly explosion at two New York City apartment buildings as they worked to clear the way for investigators to sear...
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution declaring Sunday’s referendum on the future of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula illegal, and close ally China abstained, underlining Moscow’s in...
LOS ANGELES (AP)—An exploratory subway shaft dug just down the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has uncovered a treasure trove of fossils in the land where saber-tooth cats and othe...
TRIPOLI (AP)—Libya’s ousted prime minister gave his first interview since he left the country, saying in the televised appearance aired Saturday that he doesn’t recognize parliament’s dismiss...
NEW YORK—A Japanese woman was among those killed in the collapse of two apartment buildings in Harlem on Wednesday, the Japanese Consulate General in New York has announced. Mayumi Nakamura, 34,...
LIMA (AP)—Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori suffered a stroke on Friday and was hospitalized in stable condition with some loss of control of his left upper arm, his doctor said. Neurolo...
HOUSTON (AP)—A man who became known for claiming he was the U.S. sailor kissing a woman in Times Square in a famous World War II-era photo taken by a Life magazine photographer has died. Glenn McDu...
WASHINGTON (AP)—St. Patrick’s Day came to the White House a few days early this year. Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny kicked off the holiday at events across Washington on Friday, including a m...
MUMBAI (AP)—An old, seven-story residential building collapsed Friday in a Mumbai suburb, killing at least seven people and injuring another eight, police said. The building had already been cond...
NEW YORK (AP)—Real estate mogul Donald Trump said Friday he will not run for governor and criticized the state’s Republican Party for failing to unify behind him. “While I won’t be running ...
PARIS (AP)—Paris court delivered France’s first-ever conviction for genocide Friday, sentencing a Rwandan former intelligence chief to 25 years in prison over the 1994 killings of at least 500,00...
PHOENIX (AP)—A man convicted of killing nine people, including six monks, during a robbery at a Buddhist temple where his mother and brother belonged was sentenced Friday to 249 years in prison. ...
WASHINGTON (AP)—U.S. officials say the Pentagon is sending 25,000 cases of military prepackaged meals to Ukraine, in response to a wide-ranging request from that country for some rifles, ammunition...
NEW YORK (AP)—U.S. President Barack Obama’s appearance on the “Between Two Ferns” satirical online talk show this week has reached 15 million views—almost at Justin Bieber levels. The web...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP)—The Malaysian jetliner missing for more than a week had its communications deliberately disabled and its last signal came about 7½ hours after takeoff, meaning it could have ende...
NEW DELHI (AP)—Indian navy ships supported by surveillance planes and helicopters scoured Andaman Sea islands for a third day on Saturday without any success in finding evidence of a missing Malaysi...
LONDON (AP)—The West braced Friday for a vote by the Crimean Peninsula to secede from Ukraine—and likely be annexed by Russia—as the last attempt for diplomacy broke down despite threats of cos...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP)—A driver fleeing police gunned a gray Honda Civic through a street barricade and into a crowd of South By Southwest festival attendees early Thursday, killing a Dutch man on a bi...
LONDON (AP)—Just try sugar-coating this: The World Health Organization says your daily sugar intake should be just 5 percent of your total calories—half of what the agency previously recommended,...
BEIJING (AP)—Four people were hacked to death in a knife fight at a market Friday in southern China, and one person was fatally shot by police, state media said. Conflicting reports said the viol...
NEW DELHI (AP)—A New Delhi court on Thursday confirmed the death penalty imposed by a lower court to four men convicted for the gang rape and murder of a young woman on a moving bus in 2012. A sp...
BEIJING (AP)—A popular Chinese instant messaging service has removed at least 40 accounts with content about political, economic and legal issues in a possible sign communist authorities are tighte...
WASHINGTON (AP)—Human Rights Watch criticized the United Nations Thursday for raising the possibility of Myanmar contributing U.N. peacekeepers, describing the nation’s military as among the most...
HAT YAI, Thailand (AP)—Thai authorities on Thursday detained 220 suspected Turkish migrants hiding in a secluded camp in the deep south and believed to be victims of a trafficking ring. Acting on...
KABUL (AP)—An Afghan election commission official says four election coordinators were kidnapped in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar Province, which borders neighboring Pakistan. Sareer Ahmed Ba...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP)— Ukraine’s largest bank says customers in the nation’s Crimean Peninsula are lining up to withdraw cash from their accounts as the region occupied by Russian troops pre...
WASHINGTON (AP)—Failings exposed last spring at a U.S. nuclear missile base, reflecting what one officer called “rot” in the ranks, were worse than originally reported, according to Air Force d...
SAN SALVADOR (AP)—El Salvador’s electoral court on Thursday declared leftist candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren the winner of the tight presidential election, making him the first former rebel comm...
JERUSALEM (AP)—The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said Thursday it had agreed to halt a wave of rocket fire on Israel, signaling an end to the heaviest fighting between the sides since 20...
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—The U.N.-Arab League mediator for Syria warned Thursday that if the Syrian government goes ahead with presidential elections, the opposition will probably refuse to participate ...
TORONTO (AP)—A left-leaning politician popular in liberal downtown Toronto kicked off her campaign to replace Rob Ford on Thursday, setting up a showdown with the conservative mayor who vows he wil...
LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP)—A coroner says a 78-year-old U.S. man has died two weeks after he woke up in a body bag at a funeral home after being mistakenly pronounced deceased. Coroner Dexter Howard sa...
KINGSTON (AP)—Popular dancehall reggae star Vybz Kartel and three co-defendants were convicted of murder Thursday, in a high-profile trial under heavy security in this Caribbean country’s supreme...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — A Malaysia Airlines plane sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing, an indication that it was still flying for hundreds of miles or more, a U.S...
NEW YORK (AP)—A gas leak triggered an earthshaking explosion that flattened two apartment buildings on Wednesday, killing at least six people, injuring more than 60 and leaving four missing. A tena...
GENEVA (AP)—United Nations officials confirm they have received allegations that Saudi Arabian princesses have been held against their will. But Xabier Celaya of the U.N.’s Office of the High Co...
ISTANBUL (AP)—Riot police clashed with antigovernment protesters in Istanbul and other Turkish cities following Wednesday’s funeral of a teenager, who had been in a coma since a police tear-gas c...
MOSCOW (AP)—The owner of a leading independent Russian news website has fired its chief editor following official complaints over the outlet’s coverage of Ukraine. Lenta.ru says Alexander Mamut...
SAN JUAN (AP)—Authorities in Puerto Rico said Wednesday that they have arrested 63 people accused of running a $10 million drug-trafficking operation in the island’s second largest city. U.S. At...
NEW YORK (AP)—A 1936 Nobel Peace Prize discovered at a South American pawn shop is heading to the auction block in the United States. The 1936 Nobel Peace Prize recipient was Argentina’s foreign...
PRETORIA (AP)—A South African police officer swung a cricket bat at Oscar Pistorius’ bullet-marked bathroom door during his murder trial on Wednesday, using two key pieces of evidence to re-enact...
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Barack Obama expressed a glimmer of hope Wednesday that a referendum on the future of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula can be halted, as he met with the new leader of the for...
WASHINGTON (AP)—The head of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee declared on Tuesday that the CIA interfered with and then tried to intimidate a congressional investigation into the agency’s po...
TRIPOLI (AP)—Libya’s parliament ousted Western-backed prime minister Ali Zidan in a Tuesday vote, removing the first democratically chosen leader who had struggled for 15 months to stem the count...
NEW YORK (AP)—Zach Galifianakis brought the ferns, and U.S. President Barack Obama opened a new avenue of presidential communication. The president urged young people to sign up for the new healt...
VALPARAISO, Chile (AP)—Michelle Bachelet returned to Chile’s presidency Tuesday after a four-year break, facing an economic slowdown and student-led protests that have paralyzed the country in re...
VALPARAISO, Chile (AP)—U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has been discussing the “difficult situation” in Venezuela with other Latin American leaders attending Chile’s presidential inauguration o...
JERUSALEM (AP)—Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday expressed sorrow over the fatal shooting of a Jordanian judge and announced a joint investigation into the incident, seeking to ease tensions wit...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP)—An Israeli airstrike killed three Gaza militants Tuesday near an area where an unmanned Israeli surveillance aircraft crashed earlier in the day, an official in the Pales...
KABUL(AP)—A Swedish journalist was shot to death while he was out reporting in an affluent and well-guarded area in Kabul Tuesday, highlighting fears of rising violence ahead of a crucial election ...
PRETORIA (AP)—Oscar Pistorius fired guns in public in the months before he killed his girlfriend—once out of a car sunroof on a road and once in a crowded restaurant, a onetime friend said at the...
BEIRUT (AP)—The number of Syrian children affected by the civil war in their homeland has doubled in the past year to at least 5.5 million—more than half the country’s children—with devastati...
NEW YORK (AP)—Nearly 1,500 Haitians filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking compensation from the United Nations for victims of a cholera outbreak that health officials say has killed more than 8,000 peopl...
MANILA (AP)—The Chinese coast guard prevented delivery of supplies to Filipino soldiers guarding a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, and an envoy rejected a Philippine protest over the interfe...
NEW YORK (AP)—A British man testifying in the terror trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law said Tuesday he flew on planes over the Middle East and Europe with explosives in a shoe after the Sept....
WASHINGTON (AP)—For nearly five years, government and industry officials have been exploring ways to make it easier to find airliners and their critical “black boxes” that end up in the ocean. ...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — The missing Boeing 777 jetliner changed course over the sea, crossed Malaysia and reached the Strait of Malacca — hundreds of kilometers from its last position recorded by civ...
WASHINGTON (AP)—The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill late Monday making big changes in the military justice system to deal with sexual assault, including scrapping the nearly century-old ...
VATICAN CITY (AP)—Pope Francis will make his first trip to Asia in August, visiting South Korea to participate in a Catholic youth festival, preside over a beatification ceremony for 124 Korean mar...
DHARMSALA, India (AP)—Young Tibetans are leading the fight to free their homeland from Chinese rule, the leader of the community’s government-in-exile said on Monday’s 55th anniversary of an up...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP)—The sexual assault case against an army general was thrown into jeopardy Monday when the judge said the military may have improperly pressed ahead with a trial to send a messa...
WELLINGTON (AP)—New Zealanders will soon get to vote on whether to change their national flag, which many view as a relic from a colonial past. Prime Minister John Key on Tuesday announced plans ...
EILAT, Israel (AP)—Israel’s prime minister on Monday triumphantly toured a display of dozens of rockets that navy commandos intercepted in the Red Sea last week, alleged to be on their way from I...
LONDON (AP)—Prime Minister David Cameron plans to make his first visit as British leader to Israel and the Palestinian territories this week. Cameron’s Downing Street office says he will meet I...
GENEVA (AP)—Leaders of a U.N. investigation of human rights abuses in Central African Republic said they will look into “reports of genocide” as they launched the probe Monday. The chair of t...
CHICAGO (AP)—The head of a suburban Chicago family accused of stealing $7 million in goods in a decade-long shoplifting spree will stay in jail because he is a flight risk, a federal judge ruled Mo...
PYONGYANG (AP)—With no one else on the ballot, state media reported Monday that supreme leader Kim Jong Un was not only elected to the highest legislative body in North Korea, he won with the unani...
PRETORIA (AP)—Hunched over, vomiting into a bucket by his feet and retching loudly, Oscar Pistorius was vividly reminded at his murder trial Monday of the gruesome injuries he inflicted on his girl...
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a school that tried to ban students from wearing “I (heart) Boobies!” bracelets to promote breast cancer awareness, ending a ...
CARACAS (AP)—The opposition mayor of San Cristobal said Monday that Venezuelan government forces attacked and dismantled barricades raised by protesters at key intersections in his city and fired t...
SAN SALVADOR (AP)—Authorities in El Salvador began the final count of votes Monday in a presidential runoff whose razor-close margin led the conservative challenger to announce his party is on “a...
KIEV (AP)—The Crimean parliament voted Tuesday that the Black Sea peninsula will declare itself an independent state if its residents agree to split off from Ukraine and join Russia in a referendum...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP)—One of the two men traveling on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner with a stolen passport was a 19-year-old Iranian man believed to be trying to migrate to Germany, and had no te...
WASHINGTON (AP)— A special blend of mother’s milk just for girls? New research shows animal moms are customizing their milk in surprising ways depending on whether they have a boy or a girl. The ...
NEW YORK (AP)—U.S. scientists say they’ve taken a key step toward harnessing nuclear fusion as a new way to generate power, an idea that has been pursued for decades. They are still a long way f...
BRUSSELS—Gerard Mortier, a Belgian opera director whose nonconformist style often grated the tradition-bound elite and who became a fiercely avant-garde impresario, has died. He was 70. Prime Mini...
BOGOTA (AP)—Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is back in elected office—this time in the Senate. Uribe’s party was the top vote-getter in the Senate in congressional elections Sunday in...
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Barack Obama will meet this week with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the White House said, in a prominent show of U.S. support for Ukraine’s fledgling new g...
SAN SALVADOR (AP)—Authorities declared El Salvador’s presidential runoff election too close to call late Sunday, with just a 0.2-percent margin separating a one-time Marxist guerrilla and the con...
KIEV (AP)—As separatists in Crimea kept up pressure for unification with Moscow, Ukraine on Sunday solemnly commemorated the 200th anniversary of the birth of its greatest poet, with the prime minis...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — Vietnamese aircraft spotted what they suspected was one of the doors of a missing Boeing 777 on Sunday, while troubling questions emerged about how two passengers managed to boa...
BERLIN (AP)—Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s former prime minister, has begun medical treatment at Berlin’s Charite hospital, but the doctors caring for her said Saturday it’s too soon to say how ...
PARIS (AP)—The Louvre has always showcased nudes. Never quite like this. Paris police say they arrested six women Saturday for baring their breasts and more outside the pointy-pyramid entrance to...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP)—Fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking over Skype from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, said his living situation is a bit like prison—with a more lenient visitor...
BEIRUT (AP)—Syrian government forces seized a town from rebels near the Lebanese border on Saturday, their latest attempt to cut off opposition fighters’ fluid supply lines from the country, stat...
KABUL (AP)—In 2009, the United States gave Wazhma Frogh the International Woman of Courage award for her women’s rights activism in Afghanistan. Prominently displayed in Frogh’s office is a pic...
CAIRO (AP)—Egypt’s interim president on Saturday issued a much-anticipated decree governing an upcoming presidential election that clears the way for a vote many expect will be won by the country...
KATMANDU (AP)—An Indian jetliner caught fire while landing in Nepal’s capital on Saturday, but there were no casualties reported among the 170 people on board, officials said. The right wheels ...