United States authorities have launched an investigation into 18 photos that show American soldiers posing with the corpses of Afghan insurgents. The Los Angeles Times said it obtained the photos from a soldier who wanted to put spotlight on “the ...
Extremists opposed to educating women have been blamed for the poisoning of at least 140 female students and teachers in northeast Afghanistan. Health officials in Takhar province say is appears the Rostaq district school’s water tank was contami ...
Three people have been arrested in northeast Brazil for murder and cannibalism. Authorities say Jorge Beltrao Negroponte, his wife, Cristina da Silveira, and his mistress, Bruna da Silva, confessed to murdering at least two women and eating their ...
Central Chile was rocked by a strong earthquake shortly before midnight on Monday, prompting authorities to initiate precautionary evacuation orders for coastal towns along a 500 mile stretch between the cities of Constitucion and Tongoy. Chile's ...
Pakistani police say one child died and two others were wounded Monday when their school was attacked by a lone militant. The attacker threw a hand grenade as he passed the Iqra Public School just outside of Peshawar. The grenade exploded by a gr ...
Nearly 400 inmates, including at least two on death row, escaped from a prison in the northwest Pakistan city of Bannu on Sunday after Taliban militants attacked the facility. An unidentified senior Taliban commander told Reuters about 150 milita ...
Authorities in Queensland, Australia have arrested three men for stealing a 7-year-old penguin named Dirk from Sea World. Police spokesperson Rachel Clark says the trio was charged with trespassing, stealing, and unlawfully keeping a protected an ...
Two earthquakes struck in the Gulf of California early Thursday, shaking buildings in Mexico and Arizona. The U.S. Geological Survey reports both earthquakes were centered about 85 miles northeast of Guerrero Negro, Baja California. They struck w ...
A hospital in northeast Argentina has temporarily suspended five medical professionals after a newborn declared dead was found alive in the morgue. Chaco province health officials have launched an investigation into the incident.
Authorities in India say a 22-year-old first time father will be charged with murder in the death of his 3-month-old daughter Afreen. Police say Umar Farooq beat and burned his daughter because he wanted a son. He was arrested on Sunday and initi ...
Two massive earthquakes struck off the coast of Indonesia Wednesday afternoon, prompting the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to issue tsunami watches for the entire Indian Ocean. Both watches were lifted several hours later when waves of no more t ...
At least 19 people died and around 30 others were wounded Tuesday in two suicide attacks in Afghanistan. Authorities say most of the dead were police officers. A Taliban spokesperson told media outlets the group planned both attacks.
Rescue efforts continued Monday at a copper mine in southern Peru where miners have been trapped since last week. Cabinet Chief Oscar Valdes said 20 specialists joined the operation to help reinforce shafts inside the Cabeza de Negro mine after a ...
A massive avalanche buried more than 100 people Saturday morning in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Authorities say about 70 feet of snow and rock fell from the Siachen Glacier and buried a military outpost in the Gayari sector. At least 139 people ...
A suicide attack in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday left 9 people dead and at least 23 others wounded. The International Security Assistance Force confirmed NATO personnel are among the dead.
Over a dozen migrant workers died early Tuesday when a fire broke out at a market in Moscow, Russia. Fire department spokesman Sergei Vlasov said the blaze started around 5 a.m. in living quarters at Kachalovsky market. The fire caused the roof ...
A UTair flight crashes shortly after takeoff in Siberia Monday, killing over two dozen people. The Emergency Situations Ministry in Russia said the ATR-72 aircraft lost contact with air traffic control shortly after leaving an airport in Tyumen. ...
Nine Afghan police officers in the southeast province of Paktika were killed Thursday night by a fellow police officer. Afghan officials say the men had been drugged with sleeping pills earlier in the day and were asleep when they were shot. The ...
Authorities in Finland say they have arrested a man who carried out two separate shootings at an office building and school in Orivesi on Friday. There were no deaths in either shooting and only one person was wounded. Police have not identified ...
A Saudi diplomat was kidnapped by a group of armed men Wednesday in southern Yemen, officials in Saudi Arabia confirmed. The Saudi Foreign Ministry said Abdullah al-Khalidi, a deputy consul at the embassy in Aden, was leaving his home in the dist ...