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...
Man speaks to giant crowd
NAJAF, Iraq — An anti-American cleric whose militia was once the nemesis of U.S. troops in Iraq said Saturday that his followers were still resi...
LONDON — Oscar-nominated British actor Pete Postlethwaite, described by director Steven Spielberg as “the best actor in the world,” has died at age 64 after a long battl...
