To protest a film mocking Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, Iran has blocked citizens from using Google and YouTube. According to the country’s semiofficial new agency Mehr, the government’s decision came after the public demanded the move. It is unclear ...
St. Maarten authorities have released more details about the Jamaican man arrested in connection with the stabbing deaths of a South Carolina couple. Prosecutors only identified the man by his initials, M.K.J, which is common in the Dutch Caribbe ...
Authorities in St. Maarten say they have arrested a man in connection with the slaying of an American couple at the Ocean Club Resort in Cupecoy. Prosecutor General Taco Stein said the suspect’s name will not be released until the initial investi ...
Authorities in west Nepal have halted the search for three climbers missing since Sunday’s deadly avalanche on Manaslu mountain, the eighth-highest peak in the world. The climbers are believed to be dead.
As violent protests rage in Pakistan over the anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims, Yum! Brands announced they are temporarily closing all KFC locations in the country. A spokesman for the company said the move is a “precautionary measure.”
A British soldier who was unaware she was pregnant gave birth at a UK military camp in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. Britain's Defense Ministry confirms the soldier, who has not been identified, delivered a premature baby boy at Camp Bastion i ...
Authorities in northern Mexico have launched a massive manhunt for more than 100 inmates that escaped from a minimum-security prison about 2 miles from the United States border. Federal police, soldiers and 70 members of a special forces military ...
A violent super typhoon moving north in the Pacific is expected to pass close to east Japan before making its way to South Korea over the weekend. According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Typhoon Sanba is currently packing winds over 150 mp ...
Guatemala's "Volcan de Fuego," or Fire Volcano, began spewing ash and lava Thursday morning, prompting thousands of residents to flee nearly 20 communities situated at the base of the 12,346 foot volcano. Authorities have not reported any deaths, ...
A deadly factory fire in Karachi has prompted Pakistani officials to open a murder investigation into factory owners and government workers who failed to enforce proper safety regulations. The fire ripped through Ali Enterprises clothing factory ...
Pakistani officials say firefighters are still trying to put out a deadly blaze that engulfed a garment factory overnight in Karachi. Karachi Commissioner Roshan Ali Shaikh told reporters that firefighters face difficulties in reaching certain pa ...
Libyan protesters attacked the US Embassy in Benghazi late Tuesday with guns and rocket propelled grenades, killing four consulate workers as they tried to flee the area. The White House identified two of the dead as J. Christopher Stevens, the a ...
Three people were killed and several others were wounded Monday when Taliban militants fired at a United States base in eastern Afghanistan. The dead have been identified as Afghan intelligence agents. The wounded include Afghan soldiers and at l ...
A top leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is believed to have been killed in an air raid in southern Yemen. Officials with Yemen’s Defense Ministry say Said al-Shihri, the second in command of AQAP, died Monday with 5 other militants when ...
Turkish officials say an overloaded migrant boat sank just 160 feet off the coast of Menderes township on Thursday, leaving at least 60 people dead. The intended destination of the boat is unknown. The 39-foot long vessel was carrying more than 1 ...
A 4-year-old girl was found unharmed amid three dead bodies inside a BMW parked outside the town of Chevaline, French Alps on Wednesday. The child went unnoticed because she quietly hid under luggage and the legs of a female victim. Police believ ...
Tsunami warnings were issued for Costa Rica and nearby countries following a powerful, 7.6 magnitude earthquake Wednesday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey initially reported a 7.9 magnitude tremor struck in the Pacific Ocean about 7 miles sout ...
Griselda Blanco, a former Colombian drug lord who is considered a pioneer of the large scale trafficking of cocaine into the United States in the 70s, was shot and killed Monday in the Belen area of Medellin, the capital of Colombia’s Antioquia p ...
A strong earthquake off the east coast of the Philippines prompted tsunami warnings to be issued for the Philippines, Palau, Taiwan, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and Yap. The epicenter of the 7.6 magnitude earthquak ...
Canadian police have identified dismembered human remains discovered in two waterways over the past week as those of 41-year-old single mom Hua Guang Liu. Liu, the former owner of a Scarborough spa, was reported missing on August 11, according to ...