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A Taiwanese commercial flight with 53 passengers aboard clipped a bridge shortly after takeoff and crashed into a river in the island’s capital of Taipei on Wednesday morning. Footage of…
A Jordanian government spokesman says Jordan has executed two prisoners, including a would-be female suicide bomber from al-Qaida. – This is a developing story. More to come…
Appearing online Tuesday, it seems to show a Jordanian military pilot being burned alive while confined in a cage. ISIS has released footage of its killings before. But this latest…
ROME — Less than two weeks after taking power in national elections, Greece’s leftist-led government now is taking Europe. Fashion critics in London are debating whether the Greek finance minister…
The animals, indigenous to the country, were completely wiped out by 1982. Now, thanks to the combined effort of several private and public bodies, they are making a comeback. About…
Armstrong, 43, was cited for two misdemeanors: Duty to report accidents and exceeding the safe speed for conditions, police said. Police served a summons on Armstrong through his lawyer so…
The first thing for the West to understand is that, in the short run, no amount of sanctions will force Russia to leave Ukrainenot until the Kremlin achieves victory, which…
The $4 trillion budget President Barack Obama sent Congress on Monday is his blueprint for reviving “middle class opportunity.” Liberals are thrilled by the redistributive thrust of the president’s budgetit…
LONDON — Despite warnings that a new ethical threshold was being crossed, British lawmakers on Tuesday voted to allow the in vitro creation of babies using the DNA of three…
PARIS — The French police on Tuesday arrested a man believed to have attacked and wounded three soldiers who were guarding a Jewish community center in the southern city of…
After a grueling three-day trip from San Diego to Detroit, Laurin Crosson was struck by the lights, glitter and banners, which festooned the city for Super Bowl XL in 2006….
Greece’s new anti-bailout government confirmed it will hold meetings with lead lender — and critic — Germany this week after markets and European governments reacted with relief to alternatives proposed…
A couple of years ago, Nashville, Tennessee-based photographer Brian Batista started taking pictures of rescue dogs with tattooed humans — and not just because they look decidedly awesome together. He’d…
Firefighters in Wisconsin headed out into the cold to clear the driveway of a heart attack victim and pay it forward. – The fire department encouraged others to share their…
ROME — Pope Francis has formally ratified the martyrdom of the Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Romero, who was shot to death at the altar as he was saying Mass in 1980…
Just when you think ISIS cannot horrify any more than it has, the group sends us to a new level of disbelief. The latest news from the Middle East —…
Not in France, anyway. As part of the 80th anniversary of Monopoly’s first appearance in France, Hasbro is issuing a handful of special sets in that country with real euros…
Her family has been tight-lipped on the 21-year-old’s condition after her father asked the media to respect the family’s privacy. After she was discovered unresponsive in her home in Roswell,…
The Argentine prosecutor who was found dead after accusing the government of a cover-up had drafted an affidavit seeking the arrest of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the lead investigator…
Like many mothers raising children in Chicago’s housing projects in the 1990s and 2000s, Seitia Harris was afraid of the drugs and violence that were pervasive in the neighborhood where…
And those parents who have apparently decided it is in their childrens’ interests to forego vaccines are now smack in the middle of it, and with good reason: Outbreaks of…
At some level, this is exciting news for the GOP. There are many talented figures in the pool so Republicans will have an opportunity in the primaries to pick the…
President Obama’s new budget includes a mixed bag of tax reforms, including progressive proposals to create a fairer income tax, as well as misguided corporate giveaways. On the individual side,…
Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death has gripped Argentina, had drafted a warrant for the arrest of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, accusing her of trying to shield Iranian…
Jordan announced it will execute Sajida al-Rishawi, the failed female suicide bomber whose release was sought by the Islamic State militant group, within hours, Reuters reports on Tuesday. The announcement…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — When Pakistani Taliban militants stormed a Peshawar school and massacred 150 children and teachers, nobody could fight back. Shabnam Tabinda and some of her fellow teachers…
It’s not every day a top-ranking White House official gets hands-on in a local operation — especially with very few cameras around. But last Thursday evening, Denis McDonough did just…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of teachers in northern Kenya bordering Somalia have refused to return to work, fearing attacks by Islamic extremists, a union official and teachers said Tuesday….
A French journalist’s ISIS captives cared so little about religion they did not even have a Quran, Didier Françoiswho spent over 10 months as the group’s prisoner in Syriatold CNN’s…
Superman has a cape, Spider-Man his webs, and Justin Roby has … baby formula. – “Behind the uniform, I’m a human being and I’m a person out in this community…