World News

20-12-2011
In mourning, hermit kingdom North Korea seals itself off[711 views]

DANDONG, China/WASHINGTON - North Korea was in seclusion on Tuesday, a day after it announced the death of its leader Kim Jong-il, as concerns mounted over what would happen next within one of the world's most secretive and unpredictable nations.
19-12-2011
N Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies[786 views]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died of a heart attack at the age of 69, state media has announced.
19-12-2011
Mass burial for Philippines floods victims[830 views]

A mass burial has been organised in the Philippines for scores of people killed by flash floods on the southern island of Mindanao.
15-12-2011
Jailed Afghanistan rape victim Gulnaz is freed[971 views]

An Afghan woman jailed for adultery after a relative raped her has been freed, her lawyer has told the BBC.
15-12-2011
Belgian grenade attack casts somber shadow[716 views]

Liege, Belgium -- Flowers, teddy bears and candles mark the spot Wednesday where a gunman tossed grenades into a crowded Liege market square a day before, claiming several lives and wounding scores more.
14-12-2011
Liege attack: Belgian police search for gunman motive[944 views]

Police in Belgium are trying to determine what motivated a local man to open fire on a busy marketplace in Liege, killing at least four people.
12-12-2011
Dutch architects apologize for 9/11 blast look-alike design[1,782 views]

SEOUL - A Dutch architectural firm has apologized for its design of twin skyscrapers in central Seoul which resemble the exploding World Trade Center towers in New York and have infuriated families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
08-12-2011
Wall St edges up with eyes on EU summit[528 views]

NEW YORK - Hopes the euro zone will figure out a solution to its ongoing debt crisis inspired enough buying to push stocks to a third day of gains on Wednesday in light trading.
08-12-2011
Rapid retreat of Chile glacier captured in images[871 views]

SANTIAGO, Chile — Researchers in Chile released a series of time-lapse photos Wednesday showing the dramatic retreat of a glacier in Patagonia.
08-12-2011
Blagojevich gets 14 years in prison for corruption[789 views]

CHICAGO — The Rod Blagojevich who once challenged a prosecutor to face him like a man, the glad-handing politician who took to celebrity TV shows to profess his innocence, was nowhere to be found Wednesday as he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption.
07-12-2011
New Planet: An Earth-Like World, 600 Light-Years Away?[10,825 views]

NASA's Kepler space telescope has found a new planet -- the most Earth-like yet -- circling a yellow star similar to Earth's sun and 600 light-years away, according to the space agency.
07-12-2011
Clinton orders review of student visa program[1,345 views]

JACKSON, Miss. — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered an “extensive and thorough review” of a foreign exchange program that has been used by U.S. businesses as a source of cheap labor and exploited by criminals to import women to work in the sex industry.
06-12-2011
Russia election: Hundreds rally against Putin in Moscow[1,146 views]

Several thousand people have taken to the streets of Moscow shouting "Down with Putin" as international observers in Russia's parliamentary elections speak of flagrant violations.
05-12-2011
India Dalit boy ‘killed over high-caste man’s name’[1,324 views]

A low-caste Dalit boy has been killed in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh for sharing a name with a man of a higher caste, police say.
05-12-2011
Iranians claim to down US drone[783 views]

Iran's armed forces have shot down an unmanned US spy plane that violated its eastern borders, military sources say.
03-12-2011
US-China rivalry over Burma’s hand intrigues media[1,059 views]

South-east Asian commentators have been picking over the bones of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent visit to Burma, with some writers dubious about Washington's motives for offering a hand to a pariah state.
01-12-2011
First lawsuit filed against Sandusky in Penn State child sex scandal[1,074 views]

A 29-year-old man alleged Wednesday that Penn State University former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused him dozens of times over several years during the 1990s, when he was a boy, his lawyer said.
30-11-2011
Norwegian disbelief at Breivik ‘insanity’[1,103 views]

The Norwegian public, politicians and experts alike are expressing surprise at the verdict of the forensic psychiatrists assessing Anders Behring Breivik.
30-11-2011
Jackson doctor Conrad Murray sentenced to four years[1,736 views]

Conrad Murray, the US doctor convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of pop superstar Michael Jackson, has been sentenced to four years in county jail.
29-11-2011
Zimbabwe women accused of raping men ‘for rituals’[3,739 views]

Zimbabwean police believe there is a nationwide syndicate of women raping men, possibly to use their semen for use in rituals that claim to make people wealthy.