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...
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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...
Torrential rain falls for 2 days
JOSO, Japan — Floods may fill your house with mud, but at least it’s standing and you’re alive.
“It’s still here!” said 34-year-old Chie ...
LONDON — Judy Carne, a star of the U.S. comedy show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” has died in a British hospital. She was 76.
She was famous for popularizing the “Sock it...
Zimbabwe slow to pursue case
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Amid fears that extraditing an American bow hunter for killing Ceil the lion could hurt Zimbabwe’s hunting business, autho...
Automatic appeal gets removed
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church’s process for annulling marriages today, allowing for fast-track decision...
ROME — Italy’s top criminal court has scathingly faulted prosecutors for presenting a flawed and hastily constructed case against Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyf...
LONDON — She has lived longer than any of her predecessors, seen a dozen prime ministers come and go, and presided over six decades of British history — from war with Ge...
