HONOLULU — On Dec. 7, 1941, high school senior Daniel Inouye knew he and other Japanese-Americans would face trouble when he saw Japanese dive bombers, torpedo planes an...
20-year project awes visitors
DORDRECHT, Netherlands — Just as the first storms of winter roll in, Dutchman Johan Huibers has finished his 20-year quest to build a full-s...
LONDON — A nurse who took a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge apparently killed herself three days later, with a coroner’s officer sa...
BEIRUT — Syria’s most powerful ally, Russia, said today that President Bashar Assad is losing control of his country and the rebels might win the civil war, the first ti...
NEW DELHI — With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became ...
MEXICO CITY — The plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground in a nose-dive at ...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI hit the 1 million Twitter follower mark today as he sent his first tweet from his new account.
In perhaps the most drawn out Twitter lau...
CAIRO — Egypt’s military warned Saturday of ‘disastrous consequences’ if the crisis that sent tens of thousands of protesters back into the streets is not resolved, sign...
Disc jockeys 'shattered'
LONDON — The news that Prince William and the former Kate Middleton were expecting their first child — joyous news for a couple looking forward t...
Kelly criticizes U.N.'s decision
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations has voted overwhelmingly to recognize a Palestinian state, but the Palestinians still face enormous l...
