Christians worry for safety
ASSIUT, Egypt — It was nighttime and 10,000 Islamists were marching down the most heavily Christian street in this ancient Egyptian city, chan...
Python escaped, strangled them
TORONTO — The mother of two small boys strangled by a 100-pound python in their sleep earlier this week in Canada had posted photos on Face...
It crawled through ventilation system
CAMPBELLTON, New Brunswick — A python escaped from its enclosure at a pet store in Canada, slithered through a ventilation system in...
TOKYO — A U.S. military helicopter crashed today at an American base on Okinawa, and all four crew members are believed to have survived, Japanese and U.S. officials sai...
CAIRO — A top U.S. diplomat met with a jailed senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood early today as part of mediation efforts to end the standoff between Egypt’s milita...
But some posts will open today
WASHINGTON — Amid online “chatter” about terror threats, U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed at least thr...
MOSCOW — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has left a transit zone of a Moscow airport and entered Russia after authorities granted him a temporary asylum, ...
MADRID — The driver was on the phone with a colleague and apparently looking at a document as his train barreled ahead at 95 mph — almost twice the speed limit. Suddenly...
PARIS — A staggering $53 million worth of diamonds and other jewels was stolen Sunday from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, in one of Europe's biggest jewel...
RIO DE JANEIRO — In his historic visit to Brazil, Pope Francis urged young Catholics to make a “mess” in their dioceses and break out of their spiritual cages.
Francis’ ...
