A bomb close to detonation was found Friday morning on a high-speed train in Taiwan, prompting the quick evacuation of hundreds of passengers. The explosive device was safely disarmed and seized by authorities for further investigation. Taiwan Hi ...
Fourteen people died Wednesday in two separate shootings in western Mexico, authorities confirmed. Both shootings occurred in Michoacan, a state mostly controlled by the Knights Templar drug cartel. It is unclear if Knights Templar was responsibl ...
Authorities in Iran say the death toll in Tuesday’s earthquake has risen from 4 to 30. Some 800 others were injured. No other details have been released.
A gunman is in critical condition in central Serbia following a shooting rampage that left 13 people dead. According to reports, 60-year-old Ljubisa Bogdanovic shot and killed his mother and son just before dawn Tuesday in the town of Velika Ivan ...
Southern Iran was rocked by a powerful earthquake Tuesday afternoon, sparking fears that the nuclear plant near the quake’s epicenter may have been damage. Atomstroyexport, the Russian company that built the plant in Bushehr, was quick to report ...
Britain’s first ever female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, has died. The 87-year-old, who reportedly suffered from Alzheimer’s in recent years, passed away Monday morning after having a stroke. Her children, Mark and Carol Thatcher, announced ...
A multi-story building illegally occupied while still under construction collapsed Thursday in western India, leaving dozens of people dead and numerous others injured. The building is located in Thane, just outside of Mumbai.
Human rights group Amnesty International is speaking out against Saudi Arabia for allegedly sentencing a man to be paralyzed. The man facing the shocking sentence has been identified as 24-year-old Ali Al-Khawahir.
Oscar Pistorius’ legal team won an appeal for more lenient bail conditions on Thursday, paving the way for the track star to travel outside South Africa to compete. Judge Bert Bam said Pistorius’ passport will be returned to his lawyer, Barry Rou ...
A suspect in the 2002 beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has been arrested in Karachi, Pakistan, according to a senior Pakistani official. The U.S. State Department has not confirmed the report.
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina was declared the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church Wednesday afternoon on second day of the conclave. He was selected on the fifth ballot, earning at least 77 of the 115 cardinal ...
A teenage drug cartel assassin who recently confessed to the murders of at least 10 people was found dead on the side of a road in central Mexico last week. Authorities identified the boy as 13-year-old Jose Armando Moreno Leos, a cartel hitman w ...
An early morning crash on a highway in northern India at least a dozen young children dead, authorities of Punjab state confirm. The accident occurred in Gahir area of Jalandhar district around 8 a.m. local time. The school bus collided head on w ...
Seventeen Afghan police officers were drugged and then shot to death as they slept early Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan. Officials say two officers acting on behalf of the Taliban carried out the brutal attack. Both men have reportedly been arr ...
Award-winning TV and short film director Adam Strange died this week in a shark attack in New Zealand. Thought to be the first shark attack in the country in 37 years, the tragic incident took place Wednesday off of Muriwai Beach just west of Auc ...
An early morning shooting at a lumber plant in central Switzerland on Wednesday left 7 people seriously wounded and three people, including the shooter, dead. While police say the motive of the shooting remains unknown, they have identified the g ...
Nineteen foreigners died in southern Egypt Tuesday morning when the hot air balloon they were riding in exploded and plummeted to the ground. Two Egyptians believed to be the balloon’s operators reportedly survived.
Oscar Pistorius was granted bail Friday by Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair despite prosecutors insisting he is a flight risk. Nair said prosecutors failed to prove the Olympian is at risk of fleeing the country to escape premeditated murder charges ...
The top police investigator on the murder case against Oscar Pistorius has been replaced following the revelation he is facing 7 counts of attempted murder in connection with an October 2011 shooting. Hilton Botha will be removed from the case af ...
In a written affidavit read Tuesday in court by his lawyer, Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius rejected the prosecution’s accusations of premeditated murder in the Valentine’s Day death of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius shot Steenkam ...