Cause of office blast is unknown
MEXICO CITY — Rescuers searched the rubble for survivors and authorities promised a thorough investigation after an office building blast...
Virtual world is very real
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has put church leaders on notice, saying social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter aren’t a virtual wo...
Country to host big sports events
SANTA MARIA, Brazil — Flammable and toxic foam soundproofing on the ceiling. Just one exit for a large club that could hold hundreds of ...
CAIRO — Egypt’s army chief warned today of the “the collapse of the state” if the political crisis roiling the nation for nearly a week continues.
The warning by Abdel-F...
SANTA MARIA, Brazil — The bodies of the young college students were found piled up just inside the entrance of the Kiss nightclub, among more than 230 people who died in...
Newcomer puts up fight
JERUSALEM — A badly weakened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled today to keep his job by extending his hand to a new centrist party that a...
Ambassador, 3 others killed
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faces tough questions in her long-awaited congressional testimony concerning the assaul...
Victims were gas workers
WASHINGTON — Three U.S. citizens were killed in last week’s hostage standoff at a natural gas complex in Algeria, while seven Americans made it o...
ALGIERS, Algeria — Algerian bomb squads searched a gas refinery laced with mines today, looking for more explosive traps a day after the discovery of more bodies through...
Desert gas plant siege continues
ALGIERS, Algeria — About 60 foreign hostages are still unaccounted for three days into a bloody siege with Islamic militants at a gas pla...
