CAIRO — Egyptian police in riot gear swept in with armored vehicles and bulldozers today to clear two sprawling encampments of supporters of the country’s ousted Islamis...
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...
