TERESOPOLIS, Brazil — Efforts to fly rescue helicopters to hundreds of people stranded by massive mudslides were slowed by renewed rains in a region north of Rio de Jane...
TUNIS, Tunisia — Unrest engulfed Tunisia on Saturday after a popular rebellion forced the president to flee: Dozens of inmates were killed in two prison fires, looters e...
Fighting causes disease to spread
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Tiny Shamsa is a victim of the war against Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan, but it wasn’t bullets or bombs...
BEIJING — A Chinese farmer has been sentenced to life in prison for avoiding highway tolls adding up to more than $530,000 by pretending his trucks were military vehicle...
LONDON — The British government says employers will no longer be allowed to force employees to retire at age 65.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said ...
BRISBANE, Australia — Deadly floodwaters began to recede today from the devastated streets of Australia’s third-largest city, while officials warned it could be days bef...
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil — Survivors of mudslides in mountain towns north of Rio recounted today the horrors of watching homes swept away by walls of earth and water and of f...
Flooding threatens up to 20,000 homes
BRISBANE, Australia — Emergency sirens blared across Australia’s third-largest city today as floodwaters that have torn a deadly pat...
Thousands still await U.S. visas
MIAMI — Haitian-American leaders and others are using today’s anniversary of Haiti’s massive earthquake to implore the Obama administrati...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea reiterated Saturday a proposal for unconditional talks with South Korea to ease tensions on the divided peninsula.
The latest offer come...
