Published May 16, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 Gplus0 SEOUL, South Korea – What does a sudden South Korean media obsession with cars parked next to fire hydrants, and construction workers neglecting to wear hard hats, have to do with the country's worst disaster in years? It's...
India's main opposition BJP has risen like a phoenix from the depths of despair. As the leads poured in on Friday morning, it was clear that the party is steaming ahead to its biggest victory in 30 years. This, after two losing two elections in a row - the party was able to mop up only 116...
Anti-government protesters angered by the deaths of at least 283 workers in Turkey's worst mining disaster have clashed with police across the country. In the western city of Izmir, about 100km from Soma, which was hit hard by Tuesday's mine explosion, police fired tear gas and water cannon at...
SAO PAULO: Protesters and police clashed in Sao Paulo Thursday, as demonstrations against the World Cup and rallies calling for improved public services erupted in several Brazilian cities. Officers in Brazil’s largest city fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who set piles of trash...
VOA News A court in Sudan has sentenced a pregnant woman to death by hanging for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. Twenty-seven-year-old MariamYahyaIbrahim, who is already the mother of a 20-month-old son, was convicted of apostasy on Sunday and given four days to abandon her faith. On...
NEW YORK: President Barack Obama praised the new September 11 museum on Thursday as "a sacred place of healing and of hope" that captures both the story and the spirit of heroism that followed the attacks. "Like the great wall and bedrock that embrace us today, nothing can ever break us. Nothing can...
