2013-05-02
VATICAN CITYBenedict XVI, the pope emeritus, is set return to live in the Vatican on Thursday afternoon, marking the beginning of an unprecedented cohabitation: a retired pontiff living...
2013-05-02
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — They have seen how the troubles start from the smallest things. They have seen the police powerless before mobs fired with religious zeal and armed with bricks and swords. They...
2013-05-02
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Indians expressed outrage at the Pakistan government Thursday over the death of a convicted Indian spy who had been attacked with a brick by two fellow inmates in a Pakistan prison,...
2013-05-01
Bolivian President Evo Morales says he is expelling the U.S. Agency for International Development, accusing it of interfering in his country's internal affairs. Morales said Wednesday...
2013-05-01
By Iain Rogers BARCELONA (Reuters) - Bayern Munich cruised into a first all-German Champions League final when they routed Barcelona 3-0 at the Nou Camp on Wednesday to secure a crushing 7-0 aggregate...
2013-05-01
Violence in Iraq rose sharply in April, with 460 people killed according to figures, raising fears of a return to the all-out sectarian conflict that plagued the country in past years. The majority of...
2013-05-01
Thousands take part in May Day march in Dhaka demanding better safety at work and death penalty for Rana Plaza owner Bangledeshis hold pictures of relatives and loved ones still missing after the Rana...
2013-05-01
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday the Arab League’s acknowledgment that Israelis and Palestinians may have to swap land in any peace deal was ‘a very big step forward.’ Arab states...
2013-05-01
Libya's disgruntled militiamen are flexing their muscles in the capital, Tripoli. Both the foreign and justice ministry buildings in the city remain surrounded by a mix of young and older men in...
2013-04-30
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland may spend any spare cash from future budgets rather than ease austerity measures, Finance Minister Michael Noonan said on Tuesday, after it left its plans to cut spending by...
2013-04-30
Afghan National Security Forces have shrunk by 4,000 troops and policemen from last year and are still 20,000 people short of the numbers they expect to have in place by the end of next year,...
2013-04-30
Willem-Alexander became the first king of the Netherlands since 1890 today, ascending a throne largely stripped of political power but still invested with enormous symbolic significance for the Dutch...
2013-04-30
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting mostly higher on Wall Street, but poor results from Pfizer are holding down the Dow Jones industrial average. The Dow was down three points to 14,814 at...
2013-04-30
CAIRO - Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi said Tuesday his government will no longer privatise state firms, in a break with a policy launched in the 1990s by his ousted predecessor Hosni Mubarak's...
2013-04-30
Print 30 April 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of Somalia’s Deputy State Attorney, Ahmed Malim Sheikh Nur, expressing deep concern that the recent attacks in...
2013-04-30
JERUSALEM, April 30 (Reuters) - A Palestinian man stabbed and shot dead an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli ambulance service and police said. It was the first time an...
2013-04-30
AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan says that more 45,000 refugees in its territory who fled Syria's civil war have chosen to return since last August. Enlarge Syrian elderly refugees walk at the Zaatari refugee...
2013-04-30
AMSTERDAM — Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated on Tuesday, handing over to her eldest son, Willem-Alexander, who became the first king of the Netherlands in more than 120 years. An estimated...
2013-04-30
The VIROCLIME project has studied the impact of climate change on the transport, fate and risk management of viral pathogens in water. Over a four-year period, the project has examined and sought ways...
2013-04-30
BAGHDAD -- Shiite-dominated areas in southern and central Iraq were rocked Monday by car bomb explosions that killed at least 22 people and fueled fears that the country is sliding into a civil war....
2013-04-30
Italy's new Prime Minister Enrico Letta has won his first vote of confidence. He had earlier pledged to reverse an austerity policy he said was killing Italy and focus on jobs and growth. Italy's...
2013-04-30
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is to abdicate in favour of her son Prince Willem-Alexander - an event which is being celebrated across the nation. Queen Beatrix, 75, will sign the instrument of...
2013-04-30
Apparently the US and UN are on the same schedule in addressing Syria. No one is too enthusiastic about entering another Middle East conflict, especially since the Arab League is still arming both...
2013-04-30
BANGLADESH, my country, is again in tears. Last week in Savar, a suburb of Dhaka, the capital, a poorly constructed building that housed garment factories and other businesses collapsed. More than 300...
2013-04-30
TOKYO — Two years after a triple meltdown that grew into the world’s second worst nuclear disaster, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is faced with a new crisis: a flood of highly...