Authorities in Nepal launched a rescue mission Monday for more than 2,000 tourists that have been stranded near Mount Everest for six days. Bad weather conditions forced the tourists to seek shelter in the village of Lukla, a popular starting poi ...
A Tibetan nun died Thursday after setting herself on fire in southwest China. The state-run Xinhua news agency identified the woman as 35-year-old Qiu Xiang. The incident occurred in the Ganzi region of Sichuan Province. It is unclear why the wom ...
An attack targeting the compound of a NATO contractor based in Herat, Afghanistan on Thursday left two Afghan security guards and five insurgents dead.
Thai authorities reported Wednesday the death toll in the country’s months long flooding has risen to 427. The ministry of public health said most of the causalities died of drowning or electrocution.
Failed landing gear forced the pilot of a LOT Polish Airlines flight carrying 231 people from New Jersey to Poland to make an emergency landing on the plane’s belly Tuesday at the Frederic Chopin International Airport in Warsaw. The landing was s ...
Four days after a massive earthquake rocked eastern turkey, officials confirmed the death toll had risen to 523. Rescue efforts continued Thursday as the number of people pulled alive from the rubble began to dwindle. Two survivors were found on ...
Chinese authorities have arrested a 24-year-old man in the death of Wang Yue, the toddler who died last week from injuries sustained in two hit-and-run accidents. The state-run Xinhua news agency reports Hu Jun was behind the wheel of one of the ...
A small funeral for former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was held at an undisclosed location early Tuesday morning, the National Transitional Council has confirmed. Also buried Tuesday in unmarked graves were Gadhafi’s son Mutassim and his defens ...
As Turkish officials confirmed the death toll in Sunday’s massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake has risen to 264, rescue teams worked frantically to sift through piles of rubble before time runs out for those trapped underneath. Floodlights were set u ...
The apparent heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, died over the weekend after a long battle with an undisclosed illness. Prince Sultan passed away early Saturday morning at a New York hospital, officials ...
The Chinese toddler who was ignored by dozens of people after being run over by two cars in a busy market last week has died of her injuries. According to officials at the Guangzhou Military Hospital, 2-year-old Wang Yue passed away at 12:32 a.m. ...
Libyan rebel fighters broke out into celebratory gunfire Thursday after conflicting reports surfaced of the capture and death of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The reports hit media stations as the last of Gadhafi’s loyal forces were driv ...
France’s Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday the death of a woman who was kidnapped from her holiday home in Kenya on October 1. The ministry said they are “almost sure" Marie Dedieu, who was in bad health at the time of her abduction, died in S ...
A Tibetan nun protesting China’s rule of Tibet and calling for the Dali Lama’s return died Monday after setting herself on fire. The London-based Free Tibet group identified the woman as 20-year-old Tenzin Wangmo. The incident occurred in Ngaba C ...
Flooding, landslides and collapsed buildings has been reported across Central America after a week of extremely heavy rain. Authorities say at least 84 people in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras have died. Nine others remain missing ...
One pilot was injured and a second was missing Friday morning after their fighter jet crashed at an air show in northwest China. According to reports, the men were performing in a show in Shaanxi Province county of Pucheng when their JH-7 aircraf ...
Two Spanish women working with the medical charity Doctors Without Borders were kidnapped at a Kenyan refugee came on Thursday. Spain’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the abductions, but did not release the names of the women.
The fifth son of Moammar Gadhafi was reportedly captured this week in the coastal city of Sirte. Citing field commanders in Sirte, Tripoli Revolutionary Council leader Abdallah Naker says Moatassim Gadhafi and several aids were captured Wednesday ...
A top leader of the Zetas drug cartel was arrested in northern Mexico Wednesday as part of a massive operation in which authorities seized 27.5 tons of marijuana and freed 36 kidnap victims. Officials confirm Carlos Oliva Castillo, also known as ...
An attack on a refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur region on Monday night left three United Nations peacekeepers dead and at least six others wounded. The UN mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said gunmen ambushed a security unit patrolling the Zam Zam camp n ...