A retired British couple snatched last year from their sailboat by pirates could be released within weeks as Somali communities inside and outside the East African country work for their freedom, a Somali official said Friday.
Posted on 05 March 2010
A retired British couple snatched last year from their sailboat by pirates could be released within weeks as Somali communities inside and outside the East African country work for their freedom, a Somali official said Friday.
Posted on 05 March 2010
People raced into the streets in pajamas as a magnitude-6.0 aftershock struck Concepcion shortly before dawn.
Posted on 05 March 2010
DEVELOPING — Magnitude 6.8 quake hits southwest of Sumatra.
Posted on 05 March 2010
A sumo wrestler ripped a cash machine out of a Moscow store on Friday, walking off with the bulky 200-pound machine on his shoulders, police said.
Posted on 05 March 2010
Given a semi-public spanking a year ago for his efforts, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is once again trying to put forward an accountability code — but he’s already facing a broadside from the world body’s oversight committee.
Posted on 05 March 2010
Maritime officials say pirates have clashed with private security and military personnel in three separate incidents off the Somali coast in the latest indicator of rising pirate attacks.
Posted on 05 March 2010
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted Friday that Britain’s Armed Forces were sufficiently equipped prior to the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Posted on 28 February 2010
Rescuers raced against the clock as quake victims trapped in a toppled apartment block early Sunday even as looters stole food and robbed banks after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile.
Posted on 28 February 2010
More than 2,000 U.S. Marines and about 1,000 Afghan troops who stormed the Taliban town of Marjah as part of a major NATO offensive against a resurgent Taliban will stay for the next several months.
Posted on 19 February 2010
When the boss of Fox News, Roger Ailes, was recently asked by the New York Times what made his conservative news channel such a ratings winner, he thundered back: “I built this channel from my life experience … my first qualification…
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