5 die as boat goes down on calm day
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Five people died after a whale watching boat with 27 people on board sank off Vancouver Island on Sunday...
Death toll expected to rise
KABUL, Afghanistan — A strong earthquake in northern Afghanistan shook buildings from Kabul to Delhi, cut power and communications in some are...
11-year-old grew up in Pakistan
NEW DELHI — Twelve years ago, a deaf and mute 11-year-old girl crossed the Indian border into Pakistan. Today, finally, she flew home to a...
Rain could lead to slides, floods
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Record-breaking Hurricane Patricia pushed rapidly inland over mountainous western Mexico early Saturday, rapid...
AMMAN, Jordan — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday renewed his push to ease violence and tension between Israel and the Palestinians in talks with Palestinia...
TORONTO — Canadian voters emphatically reclaimed their country's liberal identity, putting Justin Trudeau, the youthful son of one of the country's most dynamic politici...
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish authorities today banned a protest rally and march by trade union and civic society activists who lost friends and colleagues in Turkey's bloodi...
LONDON — London's Royal Free Hospital says a nurse who recovered from Ebola last year is being treated for an unusual late complication of the infection.
A military airc...
OSLO, Norway — A Tunisian democracy group won the Nobel Peace Prize today for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement.
The Norwegian Nobe...
STOCKHOLM — Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature today for works that the prize judges called “a monument to suffering and courage.”
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