Two American hikers who have been jailed in Iran for 2 years on espionage charges will likely be freed “in a couple of days,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a recent interview with NBC’s Ann Curry. An attorney for Josh Fattal and Shane Bau ...
Russia’s Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery announced Monday that the Lokomotiv hockey star who survived a plane crash that killed 35 of his teammates has died. Alexander Galimov died Monday of severe burns that covered over 80% of his body.
Security in New York City and Washington, D.C. was heightened this week after intelligence officials received "specific and credible" intelligence about a possible attack to coincide with the ten year anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The ...
Russian officials have confirmed the majority of the Kontinental Hockey League team Lokomotiv was on board the plane that crashed Wednesday just moments after takeoff from an airport near Yaroslavl.
An early morning earthquake in Indonesia left at least 2 people dead and sent hundreds of others fleeing to the streets. The U.S. Geological survey reports the 6.6 magnitude tremor struck the North Sumatra region of Sumatra Island at 12:55 a.m. T ...
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Alaska early Friday morning prompted the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to issue a tsunami warning for the Aleutian Islands. The tremor struck in the Pacific Ocean at 2:55 a.m. local time about 120 mile ...
In a private hearing on Wednesday, an Aruban judge ruled authorities can hold Gary Giordano for two more months to continue to question him about the disappearance of Robyn Gardner. Giordano, 50, was taken into custody last month after he told po ...
Rescue workers pulled 19 more miners from a flooded coal mine in northeast China on Tuesday. They men had been trapped in the mine, which was operating illegally, since August 23. The Xinhua news agency reports the Hengtai coal mine in Heilongjia ...
A brutal attack at a daycare in central China on Monday left at least two children seriously wounded and six others with minor wounds. Chinese state media reports a 30-year-old female worker at Xiaofuxing Daycare in the Minhang district of Shangh ...
Five members of the Los Zetas drug cartel have been arrested for last week’s attack on a casino in Monterrey, Mexico. Nuevo Leon Gov. Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz announced Monday that the men set Casino Royale on fire because the owners refused to ...
More than 50 people died at a casino in northern Mexico Thursday after gunmen set the building on fire. According to reports, six to eight masked men carrying automatic rifles entered Casino Royale in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon and doused the building ...
A remote region of northern Peru was rattled by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake Wednesday afternoon. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the tremor’s epicenter was located near the Brazilian border about 50 miles north of Pucallpa and about 350 miles n ...
The National Park Service has closed the Washington Monument indefinitely after discovering Tuesday’s earthquake cracked stones at the top of the 555 foot structure. In a statement posted on their website, the park service said they will have “st ...
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck central Virginia Tuesday afternoon just before 2 o’clock, the U.S. Geological Survey has confirmed. The epicenter was located 4 miles south of Louisa, Virginia near the town of Mineral. The tremor was felt in New ...
Two German men who went missing in Afghanistan last Friday may have been kidnapped, according to the German Foreign Ministry. The unidentified men, who were reportedly working for an aid organization, disappeared while hiking north of Kabul near ...
A jet operated by the Canadian carrier First Air crashed Sunday just 5 miles from the airport where it was supposed to land. Authorities say only three of the fifteen people on board survived. The dead included all four crew members.
A Sunni mosque in Khyber Agency, a tribal region of Pakistan, was rocked by a deadly explosion Friday. Government officials say about 300 people were at the mosque in Ghundi village for Friday prayers when a suicide bomber entered and detonated h ...
Venezuelan authorities have launched a massive search for 8 soldiers still missing after Wednesday evening’s helicopter crash in the Caribbean Sea. Firefighters and Navy divers are participating in the search effort, according to state media repo ...
Two Afghan soldiers died and nine others were wounded Thursday morning when a suicide bomber attempted to drive a truck laden with explosives through the main gate of a United States-run base in eastern Afghanistan. The International Security Ass ...
A British woman’s honeymoon in the Seychelles islands ended in tragedy this week when her husband of just two week was killed by a shark. Authorities say 30-year-old Ian Redmond was snorkeling off Anse Lazio beach on Praslin Island Tuesday aftern ...