Most victims are women, children
JOS, Nigeria — Rescue workers armed with body bags today dug into the rubble of buildings destroyed by two car bombs in a central Nigeria...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's president pledged today to disband the coast guard amid mounting criticism of its failure to save hundreds of passengers trapped last ...
SAVASTEPE, Turkey — Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey’s worst mining disaster: company negligence.
And he knows one other ...
President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attend the dedication of ...
Francis confirms it, slates beatification
VATICAN CITY — Pope Paul VI, who did much to modernize the Roman Catholic Church but pronounced a ban on artificial contraceptio...
276 were kidnapped from Nigerian school
ABUJA, Nigeria — A Nigerian government official said “all options are open” in efforts to rescue almost 300 abducted schoolgirls f...
Search for girls, Boko Haram continues
LAGOS, Nigeria — The effort to rescue the 276 schoolgirls believed to be captives of Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria was...
ISTANBUL — Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians, says a meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem this month will help move the two churches c...
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are set to begin a special investigation of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, raising the stakes in a poli...
DONETSK, Ukraine — The pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine decided today to go ahead with Sunday’s referendum on autonomy despite a call from Russian President Vlad...
