Americas
Colombia’s FARC rebels invite Miss Universe to attend peace talks
Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels have invited the newly-crowned Miss Universe Paulina Vega, a native of the country’s Caribbean coast, to attend...
Heroics of engineer recounted after deadly New York train crash
The engineer of a New York commuter train that plowed into a vehicle this week at a suburban rail crossing picked up an injured passenger and carried him...
Seeing things in black and white: Dead segregated in southern U.S. war memorial
A plan to update a war memorial in Greenwood, South Carolina, led to the mayor being threatened with arrest — all because it segregates World War I and...
Seven dead after New York commuter train hits vehicle
Seven people are dead after a crowded Metro-North commuter train hit a sport utility vehicle on the tracks north of White Plains, New York, Tuesday night,...
Six dead after New York commuter train hits vehicle
At least six people are dead after a crowded Metro-North commuter train hit a vehicle on the tracks north of White Plains, New York, Tuesday night, sparking...
Cuba publishes Castro photos to quiet rumours of ill health
Fresh images released by Cuban state media show former president Fidel Castro at his home with his wife, Dalia, during a meeting with the leader of a students’...
Chile’s president pushes to ease ban on all abortions
President Michelle Bachelet sent legislation to Congress on Saturday proposing to allow some abortions in Chile, a socially conservative South American...
Sweeping laws could usher in new age of anti-terror efforts for Canada
Newly tabled anti-terrorism legislation would give Canada’s spy agency more power to thwart a suspected extremist’s travel plans, disrupt bank...
Mitt Romney rules himself out of the 2016 race for the White House
Republican Mitt Romney revealed he is not running for the White House in 2016, in a surprise announcement on Friday.
Canada says man bought lottery ticket 7 seconds too late to win millions
A Quebec man who was denied part of a $27-million jackpot because he missed the deadline to buy the ticket by seven seconds has lost his appeal to the...
Gas blast wrecks Mexico children’s hospital, at least two dead
A gas truck blew up outside a maternity hospital in Mexico City on Thursday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens and trapping others after the...
Gas blast wrecks Mexico children’s hospital, at least two dead
A gas truck blew up outside a maternity hospital in Mexico City on Thursday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens and trapping others after the...
Supreme Court gives last-minute death penalty reprieve to Oklahoma trio
A death row prisoner was been granted a stay of execution on Thursday, the day before he was due to be killed by lethal injection.
Dead Argentina prosecutor Alberto Nisman ‘feared his guards’
The prosecutor whose suspicious death set off a crisis for Argentina President Cristina Kirchner no longer trusted even his bodyguards at the violent end...
Mexico protest marks four months since students’ disappearance
Thousands of protesters in Mexico City are marking four months since the disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students in southern Mexico.
Argentina to disband intelligence service after prosecutor death
President Cristina Kirchner said that she would disband Argentina’s intelligence service, after a prosecutor was found dead just hours before he...
Thousands march in Venezuela over economic crisis, shortages
Demonstrators against Venezuela’s economic crisis - facing sky-high inflation and shortages of food and consumer goods - took to the streets in their...
Captured on film: Police shoot black man dead as he surrenders to them
Newly-released footage has revealed the moment a man was shot dead during a police traffic stop in New Jersey as he got out of a car with his hands raised. The...
State of the Union: Obama asks for new war powers to fight Islamic State
U.S. President Barack Obama vowed in the State of the Union address Tuesday to relentlessly hunt down terrorists from “Pakistan to the streets of...
U.S., Cuba set for historic talks to normalize ties
The United States and Cuba will hold their highest level talks in decades on Wednesday, moving to reopen embassies and normalize ties after decades of...
Brazil, Netherlands recall Indonesia ambassadors after executions
Brazil and the Netherlands recalled their ambassadors in Indonesia after the Southeast Asian nation ignored their pleas for clemency and executed six prisoners...
Brazil president Rousseff ‘outraged’ at Indonesian execution of Brazilian
Brazil’s president was “distressed and outraged” after Indonesia defied her repeated pleas and executed one of her countrymen convicted...
U.S. Secret Service leaders told to leave in shake-up
The U.S. Secret Service is undergoing a sweeping reorganization, its director said Wednesday, after a number of scandals tarnished the image of the force...
Files from U.S. UFO investigations now online
Conspiracy theorists, UFO enthusiasts, and amateur internet sleuths rejoice! Forty-six years after the conclusion of Project Blue Book, a secret U.S.
Mexico: Families can enter army bases to search for missing students
Mexican authorities say the parents of 43 missing students can enter army bases to search for their sons, but say there is no evidence the army was involved...
Developing: As many as 10 killed in Texas prison bus crash
Law enforcement officials say a bus carrying 12 prisoners and three corrections officers fell from an overpass in West Texas and crashed onto train tracks...
Officials reveal cause of fatal Washington subway evacuation
A woman died and at least two people were critically injured after smoke filled a subway car in downtown Washington on Monday afternoon.
Canadian police arrest brothers on terror-related charges
Twin brothers from Ottawa have been charged with terrorism-related offences after police in Ottawa arrested them on Friday night.
Brazilian police detain 50 during protests over bus fare hikes
Tensions were high in Sao Paulo after police resorted to tear gas and detained some 50 protesters, as thousands took to the streets against the country’s...
Final settlement: Ex-wife cashes oil magnate’s $975m alimony cheque
The ex-wife of a US oil billionaire has cashed one of the largest divorce awards in US history - a cheque for $975m, her ex-husband’s lawyer has...
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