Guatemalan community buried by massive event
SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala — Guatemalan officials weighed what to do with the site of a massive, acres-wide mudslide th...
STOCKHOLM — Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada won the Nobel Prize in physics today for the discovery of neutrino oscillations.
The Royal Swedish Acad...
ANTIBES, France — In a matter of minutes, torrential rains transformed the postcard-perfect French Riviera into a terrifying flood zone, leaving at least 16 dead, trappi...
DAMASCUS, Syria — Russian warplanes have attacked the Islamic State group and other insurgents in central and northern Syria with a wave of new airstrikes, Syrian and Ru...
MOSCOW — Russian military jets carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria today for the first time, the defense ministry said.
The airstrikes target...
Migrants cause tensions to rise
ZAGREB, Croatia — Tensions escalated between Serbia and Croatia today as the longtime foes struggled to come up with a coherent way to dea...
MINA, Saudi Arabia — At least 453 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a stampede today on the outskirts of Mecca, the deadliest tragedy to strike the annual ...
HAVANA — Pope Francis begins a 10-day trip to Cuba and the United States on Saturday, embarking on his first trip to the onetime Cold War foes after helping to nudge for...
[naviga:h3]12 dead as security fires on tour group[/naviga:h3]
CAIRO — At least 12 people were killed and 10 injured in Egypt’s southwestern desert Sunday when security ...
A towering construction crane, center, is seen collapsed over the Grand Mosque, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, early Saturday morning. The towering construction crane toppled o...
