Xinhua SHANGHAI, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen people were confirmed dead and 25 others injured, five critically, after a liquid ammonia leak at a refrigeration unit in Sh...
Los Angeles Times TUOLUMNE CITY, Calif. -- Officials reported Saturday that the Rim fire has burned 219,000 acres in and around Yosemite National Park as hot conditions ...
BBC News Six people, one of them a juvenile, were put on trial for last December's notorious gang rape and murder of a female student on a bus in the Indian capital, Del...
BBC News Reports that former South African President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital are incorrect, South Africa's presidency says. The BBC and other ne...
BBC News Archbishop Pietro Parolin, a 58-year-old Vatican diplomat, is to take over the key post of top foreign policy adviser and deputy to Pope Francis in October. He ...
Fox News After failing to win support from the United Nations and the British public for military action in Syria, the Obama administration is just now trying what some ...
USA TODAY SHARECONNECTTWEETCOMMENTEMAILMORE. SAN FRANCISCO — Apple's in-store iPhone trade-in program is launching today in the U.S.. Customers who bring in an iPhone wi...
NY1 Another new poll shows Public Advocate Bill de Blasio leading the crowded Democratic race for mayor, with former Comptroller Bill Thompson and City Council Speaker C...
Chicago Daily Herald WASHINGTON — Despite 75 years of federal marijuana prohibition, the Justice Department said Thursday that states can let people use the drug, licens...
Telegraph.co.uk Hyon Song-wol, rumoured to be a former girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has been executed for 'violating laws against pornography,' according to news reports out of South Korea. According to some accounts, her crime was making a sex tape. and more »
