Americas

Alaska Airlines ramp agent found inside cargo hold after pilot hears ‘banging’
An airport worker who fell asleep and found himself trapped in a plane’s cargo hold forced a Los Angeles-bound Alaska Airlines flight to return to...
Impoverished Indian tribe struggles to stop surge in teen suicides
The people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are no strangers to hardship or to the risk of lives being cut short.
Boy, 3, shoots his one-year-old brother dead with unattended handgun
A three-year-old boy has shot dead his one-year-old brother after picking up a gun at their Cleveland home, officials said. Police are investigating...
Fresh protests in Brazil against Rousseff, corruption
By early Sunday afternoon, organizers said some 190,000 people across the country had answered the call to protest, driven in large part by the widening...
Ambassador: US handed Cambodia to ‘butcher’ 40 years ago
Twelve helicopters, bristling with guns and U.S. Marines, breached the morning horizon and began a daring descent toward Cambodia’s besieged capital.
Police officer charged with murder after black man shot dead in U.S.
A South Carolina police officer has been charged with murder after he shot dead a black man who appeared to be fleeing from him.
Fate of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev entrusted to U.S. jury
The fate of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be entrusted to jurors Tuesday when they start deliberating the guilt of the 21-year-old American accused...
Fate of Boston bomber entrusted to U.S. jury
The fate of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be entrusted to jurors Tuesday when they start deliberating the guilt of the 21-year-old American accused...
U.S. woman dies at 116 after six-day reign as world’s oldest person
Gertrude Weaver, who last week became the world’s oldest-known living person, has died at the age of 116 at a senior care facility in Arkansas, officials...
Boston bombing trial: Can ‘Svengali’ defence save Tsarnaev?
The real defence of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, experts say, will begin only after the jury’s verdict, when Tsarnaev’s...
Chile flood toll rises amid growing fears for missing
At least 25 people are dead and 125 others are still missing in the north of Chile as flash floods across the Atacama area, home to the world’s driest...
Historic Obama-Castro meeting may take place at Panama summit
Raul Castro, who took control of the 11-million-strong still nominally Communist island from his brother Fidel seven years ago, has confirmed he will be...
Fidel Castro appears in public for first time in over a year
Cuba’s former president and revolutionary icon Fidel Castro has made his first public appearance in 14 months, local media reported Saturday. The...
Amanda Knox pledges to champion wrongly convicted people
Amanda Knox has said she will work to give a voice to the wrongly convicted, following her dramatic exoneration last month in the murder of British student...
Brazil clashes after 10-year-old boy shot dead by police
Clashes have taken place in Brazil after a 10-year-old boy was allegedly shot dead by police during an operation against drug gangs.
California man gets 18 years for running U.S. ‘revenge porn’ site
A California man who posted thousands of sexually explicit photos of men and women on a “revenge porn” website was jailed for 18 years in what...
'Anti-Muslim' Hitler bus adverts cause uproar in Philadelphia
Controversial ads showing a photograph of Adolf Hitler with a former Arab leader have started appearing on Philadelphia transit buses.
Alabama death row inmate to be freed after nearly 30 years
An Alabama inmate who spent nearly 30 years on death row will go free Friday after prosecutors told a judge there is not enough evidence to link him to...
Grandson of Getty oil tycoon found dead in Los Angeles home
The grandson of billionaire Getty oil founder J. Paul Getty was found dead on Tuesday afternoon at his home in Los Angeles, the family said in a statement.
Man, woman found dead after U.S medical office shooting
A man and a woman were found dead after the man stormed a medical office building in downtown Fresno , California and shot the mother of his five children...
Teen libertarians lead the charge in Brazil’s right-leaning movement
The grandson of Japanese immigrants, Kim Kataguiri, 19, is a social media star whose quirky videos skewer Rousseff and the ruling party’s social...
Twenty five in hospital after Air Canada flight slides off runway
An Air Canada plane made an “abrupt” landing and skidded off the runway at the Halifax airport in bad weather, and officials said early Sunday...
Needle exchange set up after huge increase in HIV cases in Indiana
Indiana’s governor has authorised the short-term use of a needle-exchange programme to combat an HIV epidemic in a rural county. Republican...
Detroit mother made daughter put her sister’s body in freezer
A teenager told authorities that her mother killed two siblings and forced her to put one of the bodies in the freezer of their Detroit home where both...
Mexico march marks 6 months since 43 students disappeared
Parents of 43 missing students marked the six-month anniversary of their disappearance with a march of a few thousand supporters Thursday, urging the country...
Pope, Obama to discuss environment and the poor during White House visit
The president and first lady Michelle Obama will welcome the pontiff as a guest at the White House on September 23.
One person killed when tornadoes hit Oklahoma, Arkansas
The slow start to tornado season in the U.S. came to a blustery end, when tornadoes raked Tulsa during its evening rush hour on Wednesday, killing one...
Ruins of ‘secret Nazi hideout’ discovered in Argentinian jungle
Archaeologists believe ruins found deep in a remote jungle could be the remains of a secret hideout built by the Nazis to flee to after the Second World...
Count me in: Republican Ted Cruz reveals he will stand for President in 2016
US Senator Ted Cruz from the hardline Republican right confirmed Monday he will run for president in 2016, the first major candidate to officially declare...
Chilean Catholics protest naming of Bishop linked to sex abuse
Black balloons in hand, hundreds of Catholics gathered at a church in the small Chilean city of Osorno on Saturday to protest the appointment of bishop...

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