Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives, claims his resignation yesterday was given under duress....
February 8, 2012 7:58 GMT
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A group of US senators have warned that Egypt's crackdown on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is threatening the decades of warm relations...
February 8, 2012 8:11 GMT
LONDON – Aircraft maker Airbus has been ordered to inspect the entire global fleet of A380 superjumbo planes after the airline Qantas discovered tiny cracks in wing...
February 8, 2012 7:16 GMT
The radical Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for...
February 8, 2012 6:59 GMT
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A European Union official has said the member states plan to enact harsher sanctions on Syria in response to the violent conflict that is sweeping the...
February 8, 2012 6:06 GMT
Three government ministers in the southern Indian state of Karnataka resigned on Wednesday after two of them were accused of watching a pornographic video on the third...
February 8, 2012 5:12 GMT
Ten suspected militants were killed in north-west Pakistan on Wednesday after an unmanned US drone aircraft fired two missiles at an insurgent hideout, Pakistani security...
February 8, 2012 4:52 GMT
Manhattan prosecutors have dropped the rape case against Greg Kelly, son of NYPD commissioner...
February 8, 2012 3:47 GMT
Turkey is reportedly preparting a new initiative with countries who oppose the Syria in response to its bloody crackdown on unrest in response to the "fiasco" of...
February 8, 2012 2:31 GMT
As Rick Santorum enjoyed his hat trick on Tuesday in the Republican nomination race, Mitt Romney pretended not to notice.
Before the night’s final state was...
February 8, 2012 1:44 GMT
An Australian thief turned crime fighter, turning himself into police with a phone he stole containing what he suspected to be child pornography on the memory card.
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February 8, 2012 0:55 GMT
Ten migrant farm workers from Peru, many part of the same extended family, died Monday after their 15-passenger van collided with a flatbed truck in southwestern Ontario....
February 8, 2012 0:43 GMT
US consumer groups have petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to subject a genetically engineered version of the Atlantic salmon to a more rigorous review process...
February 8, 2012 0:21 GMT
Bread and rolls, not chips and pretzels, are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, according to a federal study.
Fresh chicken and turkey, which is...
February 7, 2012 23:40 GMT
Hackers claiming to be part of the Anonymous group demanded $50,000 from Symantec, the biggest maker of anti-virus software, before releasing stolen source code for several...
February 7, 2012 22:03 GMT
The race for the Republican presidential nomination took a turn on Tuesday night, with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum winning a political caucus in Minnesota and a...
Ex-TV host and VP, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, sworn in as Maldives president after dramatic resignation
February 7, 2012 19:53 GMT
The former television host and Vice-President of the Maldives, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, was sworn in as President of the Indian Ocean archipelago on Tuesday afternoon,...
February 7, 2012 19:42 GMT
Argentina will make a formal complaint to the United Nations concerning British military movement near the Falkland Islands,...
February 7, 2012 18:53 GMT
Yahoo Inc. is shaking up its board of directors, with the chairman of the board and the three other longest-serving directors heading for the exits and two new independent...
February 7, 2012 17:55 GMT
A judge in Ecuador today ordered two reporters to pay $1 million each to President Rafael Correa after convicting them of defamation for saying he knew of his older brother...
February 7, 2012 17:17 GMT
Consumer borrowing in the United States increased $19.3 billion to $2.5 trillion in December, the Federal Reserve said today, according to...
February 7, 2012 16:50 GMT
Google has unveiled its new Solve for X initiative, an online forum that will encourage "moonshot thinking" to solve some of the world's most insurmountable...
February 7, 2012 17:01 GMT
Attempting to win a third term in elections this month, Senegal’s embattled President Abdoulaye Wade today led an impromptu evening rally through the streets of Dakar...
February 7, 2012 16:21 GMT
NEW YORK — Duane Jackson, the street vendor who notified the police of a car bomb in Times Square in 2010 plans to run for Congress,...
February 7, 2012 15:50 GMT
Joining the US and the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, France has recalled its ambassador from Syria in protest against the violent suppression of the anti-government...
February 7, 2012 15:31 GMT
Members of Congress have directed over $300 million in earmarks and other spending provisions to public projects that are next to or near their own properties,...
February 7, 2012 15:25 GMT
Five Afghan police officers were shot dead after being poisoned on Tuesday, the BBC reported.
Toor Jan,...
February 7, 2012 14:25 GMT
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Rangers at South Africa's Kruger National Park, a major safari destination...
February 7, 2012 14:36 GMT
Amanda Knox has appealed a slander conviction brought against her in Italy, BBC News reported.
Last October...
February 7, 2012 14:58 GMT
Europe’s paparazzi and prurient tattlers received a shot in the arm today as Europe’s court of human rights rejected a privacy complaint by...
February 7, 2012 13:22 GMT
While the national media is fixated on the outcomes of today's Republican primary contests in Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado, they should not forget that today...
February 7, 2012 13:59 GMT
Jerusalem police have said they believe Jewish extremists are responsible for tagging a school and a monastery in Israel with death threats,...
February 7, 2012 14:00 GMT
Uganda reintroduced its anti-gay bill on Tuesday, but dropped the death penalty provision, which was once the punishment for certain homosexual acts,...
February 7, 2012 13:27 GMT
As Aung San Suu Kyi campaigned in Burma, drawing crowds of thousands of supporters, the United States announced the easing of one of its many sanctions against the country,...
February 7, 2012 13:27 GMT
Bradley Manning, the US army officer accused of linking information to WikiLeaks, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the group...
February 7, 2012 13:11 GMT
A federal appeals court in California today has struck down the state's 2008 ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional, allowing proponents of the ban to take their case to the Supreme...
February 7, 2012 12:26 GMT
The Atlantic caught footage of...
February 7, 2012 11:59 GMT
Florence Green, the world’s last known veteran of the First World War, passed away at the age of 110,...
February 7, 2012 11:59 GMT
Iran’s parliament has summoned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over a series of “irregularities,” including accusations that he has mismanaged...
February 7, 2012 10:11 GMT
Amgen says that its bone drug can also help people suffering from prostate cancer. But the Food and Drug Administration is questioning whether the drug provides "an...
February 7, 2012 11:10 GMT
An Italian court has ruled that Francesco Schettino, the captain of the shipwrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia which capsized off the island of Giglio last month, must...
February 7, 2012 11:05 GMT
Karen Handel has resigned as Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Vice President for...
February 7, 2012 10:53 GMT
A 65-year-old woman was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in Pakistan after being trapped for 31 hours,...
February 7, 2012 9:46 GMT
Two explosions struck near army and air force bases near the Nigerian city of Kaduna on Tuesday, the latest in a series of blasts to hit Nigeria’s northern region....
February 7, 2012 9:29 GMT
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Gulf Cooperation Council announced Tuesday its members were recalling their ambassadors from Syria and expelling Syria's envoys from their...
February 7, 2012 8:55 GMT
BERLIN, Germany — Two men were arrested in Germany today on suspicion of spying on opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government.
The two...
February 7, 2012 8:31 GMT
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The hacker group calling itself "Anonymous" posted the passwords and email addresses of scores of Syrian government officials, ...
February 7, 2012 8:00 GMT
George Boley, the former Liberian rebel leader, is to be deported from the US over his role in the West African nation’s civil war in the 1990s.
A US...
February 7, 2012 7:44 GMT
A group of Chinese workers kidnapped by rebels in Sudan were today freed and flown to Kenya, while new details have emerged about the death of one Chinese national following...
February 7, 2012 7:09 GMT
President Obama has reversed his position on so-called "super PACs," which are political actions committees that can receive unlimited donations. Super PACs were...