Floods, Mudslides Kill at Least Eight in Venezuela

2008/11/21 05:02:22

Heavy rains unleashed flooding and mudslides in Venezuela that killed at least eight people, includi...

Resort Sues Competitors for Swiping Beach Sand

2008/11/21 03:54:04

A developer is suing two Spanish-owned hotel groups for allegedly stealing nearly 100 truckloads of ...

Congo Rangers Return to Protect Gorillas From Violence

2008/11/21 03:38:08

The director of Congo's Virunga Park says rangers who fled fighting between rebels and soldiers are ...

Stinky Man Lives 'The Terminal' With 3-Month Layover

2008/11/21 02:13:23

For reasons he can't explain, the Japanese man has been in Terminal 1 of the Benito Juarez Internati...

Officials: Mexican Drug Officer Took Cartel $ to Leak Info

2008/11/21 00:43:46

Officials say Mexico's former drug czar took $450,000 to leak information to a powerful cartel....

Hunger Plagues Haiti After Storm Wipes Out Food Supply

2008/11/20 05:34:35

At least 26 severely malnourished children have died in the past four weeks in the remote region of ...

Pakistan protests over U.S. missile strikes

2008/11/20 05:24:24

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan summoned U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson on Thursday to protest over m...

Grenade fails to scare hardcore Thai protesters

2008/11/20 04:58:03

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Diehard protesters occupying the Thai prime minister's offices brushed off a gre...

Riot Erupts After Bomb Kills 8 at Pakistan Funeral

2008/11/21 04:04:36

Police said a bomb killed eight mourners at the funeral of a Shiite cleric gunned down Friday in nor...

Iraqis Burn Bush Effigy Where Saddam Statue Fell

2008/11/21 03:47:27

Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush i...

Pirates Rake in $150M at Expense of Global Economy

2008/11/21 03:03:40

In further evidence of the ongoing creation of a pirate economy, Kenya's foreign affairs minister sa...

U.N. Urges China to Apologize for Tiananmen Massacre

2008/11/21 01:23:04

The U.N. Committee against Torture wants China to apologize to the victims of its Tiananmen Square c...

Germany Abandons Attempt to Ban Scientology

2008/11/21 00:24:16

Germany is dropping its pursuit of a ban on Scientology after finding insufficient evidence of illeg...

Somali politicians fuel piracy, says African Union

2008/11/20 05:31:08

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The growth in piracy off Somalia is being aggravated by the country's feuding po...

Japan-U.S. missile defense test fails off Hawaii

2008/11/20 05:22:17

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Japanese warship failed to shoot down a ballistic missile target in a joint...