WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Two strong earthquakes struck the Solomon Islands on Sunday, triggering a tsunami warning, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. People throughout the Pacific island chain awoke to a strong quake at ...
LONDON -- British police said Tuesday that they are investigating the unexplained death of media personality Peaches Geldof and will hand their findings to a coroner. A post-mortem will be performed in the next few days on 25-year-old Geldof, who was ...
PERTH, Australia -- Underwater sounds detected by a ship searching the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet are consistent with the pings from aircraft black boxes, an Australian official said Monday, dubbing it "a most promising lead" ...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The international community has widely praised Afghanistan for holding national elections that saw a heavy turnout despite complaints about a shortage of ballots and reports of fraud. Millions of Afghans defied Taliban threats and ...
NEW DELHI -- An Indian court on Friday sentenced to death three men who raped a photojournalist inside an abandoned textile mill last year in Mumbai, India's biggest city. A fourth defendant was sentenced to life in prison, prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said.
A Canadian-born journalist working for the Associated Press in Afghanistan was shot and wounded Friday when a police officer opened fire on her vehicle. A German photographer travelling with her was also killed in the attack. Kathy Gannon, 60, who grew ...
LONDON -- British authorities on Wednesday warned people with heart or lung conditions to avoid exertion as a combination of industrial pollution and Sahara dust blankets the country in smog. The environment department said the air pollution level could ...
Hoaxes, jokes and pranks… oh my! April 1st is the one day of the year when we can expect a little extra tomfoolery. And these days the first place to look for it is on YouTube. April Fools' Day has become something of a viral marketing campaign for many ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft has released an iPad version of its popular Office software suite, a breakthrough heralding a new era under a CEO who promises to focus more on the devices that people are using instead of trying to protect the company's ...
DOHA, Qatar -- An American couple charged with starving their 8-year-old adopted daughter to death in the Gulf Arab county of Qatar was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison, a verdict that stunned and shocked the family, according to the couple's ...
DOHA, Qatar -- An American couple charged with starving their 8-year-old adopted daughter to death in the Gulf Arab county of Qatar was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison, a verdict that stunned and shocked the family, according to the couple's ...
A Saskatoon man who recently travelled to West Africa and is now critically ill with a high fever and other symptoms has tested negative for a number of exotic diseases, including Ebola, according to the World Health Organization. In a tweet sent early ...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Security guards searched four attackers -- twice -- before allowing them to enter an Afghan hotel where the young men proceeded to the restaurant and killed nine diners, including four foreigners and an AFP journalist, his wife and two ...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Security guards searched four attackers -- twice -- before allowing them to enter an Afghan hotel where the young men proceeded to the restaurant and killed nine diners, including four foreigners and an AFP journalist, his wife and two ...
Ukraine's armed forces took what may prove to be one of their final stands Saturday in Crimea, as pro-Russian forces stormed and seized control of an air force base amid a barrage of gunfire and explosions. A tense blockade of the Belbek air base base that ...
A Calgary woman was among the nine people killed in a brazen attack at a hotel restaurant in Afghanistan and foreign affairs is working to bring her body home. Zeenab Kassam, 57, of Calgary was one of two Canadians killed in the terrorist attack at The ...
A Calgary woman was among the nine people killed in a brazen attack at a hotel restaurant in Afghanistan and foreign affairs is working to bring her body home. Zeenab Kassam, 57, of Calgary was one of two Canadians killed in the terrorist attack at The ...
A Calgary woman was among the nine people killed in a brazen attack at a hotel restaurant in Afghanistan and foreign affairs is working to bring her body home. Zeenab Kassam, 57, of Calgary was one of two Canadians killed in the terrorist attack at The ...
A Calgary woman was among the nine people killed in a brazen attack at a hotel restaurant in the Afghanistan and foreign affairs is working to bring her body home. Zeenab Kassam, 57, of Calgary was one of two Canadians killed in the terrorist attack at The ...
Two Canadian women killed in a mass shooting at the Kabul Serena Hotel in Afghanistan on Thursday evening have been identified. They were among a total of nine people who died in the attack, including an Afghan journalist with the French news agency ...
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