Heavy rain and flooding on the Japanese island of Kyushu has killed over a dozen people, local authorities have confirmed. Kumamoto and Oita prefectures were the worst hit areas. Record amounts of rainfall was recorded in Kumamoto Thursday and mo ...
A horrific attack with an air pump left a 13-year-old Chinese boy with severe internal injuries. According to reports, two adult men held Du Chuanwang down and pumped compressed air into his body with an air pump they had inserted in his rectum. ...
An Egyptian couple attempting to enter the United Arab Emirates was detained this week at Sharjah International Airport after security officers discovered a 5-month-old baby boy in their carryon luggage. Police say it appears the couple hid their ...
Canadian police say a severed human head found Sunday at Angrignon Park in Montreal has been identified as that of Jun Lin, the Chinese student whose murder and dismemberment was filmed and posted online. Model and adult film star Luka Rocco Magn ...
Officials in Cuba say dozens of people are ill and at least 3 people have died in a cholera outbreak in the eastern city of Manzanillo. Several drinking wells are believed to be the source of the outbreak. Authorities say water samples are being ...
A deadly explosion at a crowded railway station in southeast Pakistan late Wednesday is likely the work of Baloch separatist militants, officials say. The bomb was planted in a tea stall at the station in Sibi, a town in Balochistan province.
Bad weather has been blamed for the deaths of at least 95 people in southeast Bangladesh. Authorities in Chittagong region said heavy rain deadly landslides and flooding and brought bad lightening. Mohammad Serajul Huq Khan, the Divisional Commis ...
For the second time in a week a boat carrying asylum seekers capsized in the waters between Australia and Indonesia. The wooden fishing boat from Indonesia was apparently smuggling refugees to Australia’s Christmas Island when it overturned Wedne ...
An estimated one hundred people in the eastern Uganda district of Bududa remained missing Tuesday following massive landslides.
Officials in Mexico say three federal officers died Monday at the hands of two fellow officers suspected of being involving in a drug trafficking ring. According to the Public Security Ministry, the officers were shot while trying to take the two ...
Authorities in northern Canada say some 30 people could be buried in rubble after a roof collapse at a two-story mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario. The roof collapse happened Saturday around 2:30 p.m. at Algo Centre Mall. Twenty-two people suffered mi ...
Mexican authorities have announced the man they thought was the son of top drug lord Joaquin Guzman, aka El Chapo, is actually a car salesman who has no ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel. The man was identified Friday as Felix Beltran.
Officials say the son of Mexico’s most wanted drug lord Joaquin Guzman aka “El Chapo” has been captured in Jalisco state. Marines arrested Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar Thursday in the city of Zapopan. It is unclear what led them to Guzman’s locat ...
An 11 hour gun battle between soldiers and Taliban militants holed up with hostages at a luxury hotel on the outskirts of Kabul left a total of 26 people dead, Afghan authorities say. No Afghan or NATO troops were killed.
Rescue teams from Australia and Indonesia are searching the waters off Christmas Island for dozens of Sri Lankan refugees who were stranded in the ocean after their boat capsized Thursday. The accident happened about 120 nautical miles north of t ...
Afghan officials have confirmed at least 3 NATO soldiers were among the 21 people killed in a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday. All three soldiers were reportedly Americans.
A gunman claiming to be an al Qaeda militant was captured Wednesday in southern France after taking 4 people hostage at a bank. Authorities say all four of the hostages are unharmed and the gunman is alive but wounded after the 5 hour standoff. T ...
Police in northwest Pakistan say it appears the Taliban is not linked to the shooting death of Ghazala Javed, a Pakistani singer popular among ethnic Pashtuns in the Middle East. Police official Imtiaz Altaf told CNN Javed’s ex-husband, Jehangir ...
A young woman identified as Manju Kunwar was beheaded by her father Tuesday in the northern India state of Rajasthan after he accused her of “indecent behavior.” Authorities say 46-year-old Oghad Singh, a marble miner in the village of Dengar Ka ...
A university in western Canada was briefly placed on lockdown early Friday morning after a fatal shooting occurred during an apparent robbery on campus. Police have not made any arrests. Three people died at the scene and a fourth person was crit ...