Tourists' trash provides feast
PARIS — Rats are on the rampage in the elegant garden of the Louvre Museum, so bold they romp on the grass in broad daylight, defying death...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas meant to last at least three days and end nearly a month of fighting went into effect in the Gaza Strip thi...
TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. reported a 5 percent jump in quarterly profit Tuesday, outpacing expectations as vehicle sales grew in North America and Europe, offsetting a ...
Associated Press
LUDIAN, China (AP) — Some 10,000 troops used pickaxes and backhoes to clear roads and dig residents from collapsed homes Tuesday after a quake in southw...
War started 100 years ago
LIEGE, Belgium — Former enemies during World War I united for ceremonies surrounding the 100th anniversary of the start of the conflict, with Be...
MONROVIA, Liberia — The deadly scourge of Ebola means people here no longer shake hands when greeting others. In taxis
where people used to cram onto the laps of others,...
12,000 homes collapse in magnitude 6.1 event
KUNMING, China — Rescuers dug through shattered homes today looking for survivors of a strong earthquake in southern China’s ...
WASHINGTON — The United States declared Sunday it is “appalled” by Israel’s “disgraceful” attack on a United Nations school sheltering some 3,000 displaced people in sou...
LOUHAJONG, Bangladesh — A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized today in central Bangladesh, killing at least two people and probably many more as horrifi...
298 people aboard flight were killed
HRABOVE, Ukraine — With the sound of artillery blasts at a distance, 70 international investigators arrived Friday at the eastern Ukr...
