World News
Fears grow over Iran's nuclear program
In defiant swipes at its foes, Iran has said it is dramatically closer to mastering the production of nuclear fuel even as the U.S. weighs tougher pressures and...
U.S. payroll tax cut remains
Congressional negotiators ended a bruising election-year fight and sealed an agreement late Wednesday on legislation to renew a payroll tax cut for 160 million...
Coroner wants Whitney's drug records
It's become standard-operating procedure when a celebrity dies too young, investigators immediately go looking through their nightstand and medicine...
Tweets save teacher, cow and sheep
When the administrative chief of this western Kenyan village received an urgent 4 a.m. call that thieves were invading a school teacher's home, he sent a...
Bulldog adopts wild boar piglets
Forget the three little pigs hiding from the big bad wolf. These six little pigs have found a new friend in a maternal French bulldog named Baby. The Lehnitz...
Hundreds die in Europe's worst winter
More than 600 people in Eastern Europe have died during a record-breaking cold snap that has brought the heaviest blizzards in recent memory and trapped...
Sean Penn sides with Argentina
Sean Penn is accusing British media of pushing for war instead of diplomacy to resolve the United Kingdom's dispute with Argentina over the islands both...
Over 300 killed in Honduras prison fire
Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates, authorities said Wednesday. Some 475 people...
Israel says Thai attack similar
The bombs discovered in a Bangkok house after a series of blasts in the Thai capital were similar to those used in attacks on Israeli diplomats in India and...
Houston's music sales soar
Whitney Houston's career is getting a post-mortem boost, but it isn't likely to be as big as the one that enriched the King of Pop's estate after...
Canadian Ace wins best of breed
Canadian dog Ace walked away with a big prize at the Westminster Kennel Club show. The black cocker spaniel owned by Marlene Ness of Brantford, Ont., won the...
Iranian patrols shadow US carrier
Iranian patrol boats and aircraft have shadowed a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group as it transited the Strait of Hormuz. Tuesday's passage ended a Gulf...
Marijuana industry needs pot bank
DENVER - Medical marijuana is legal in 17 U.S. states, but the industry has a decidedly black-market aspect, it's mostly cash-only. Colorado lawmakers...
Lioness kills longtime zoo worker
A lioness sprung at the throat of a zoo worker on a rural conservation farm and killed him, apparently because security gates were left open, the Johannesburg...
1st same-sex marriage above New York
Two women who met at the University of Alaska have become the first same-sex couple to be married at the Empire State Building. Stephanie Figarelle and Lela...
Freezing death grips European nations
Snow as deep as 15 feet (4.5 metres) isolated areas in Romania, Moldova and Albania on Tuesday and turned a power plant in Kosovo into a park of dazzling ice...
Hacker attack on US tear gas company
A U.S. security company whose tear gas has been used against Egyptian demonstrators has become the latest victim of the Anonymous movement, hackers claimed...
Israel to settle score with attackers
An Israeli Cabinet minister says his country will "settle the score" with the perpetrators of a bombing attempt in Bangkok. An Iranian man carrying...
Iranian patrol boats shadow US carrier
Iranian patrol boats and aircraft shadowed a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, ending a Gulf mission amid...
China to limit imported TV shows
China's television broadcasters will be limited in the number of imported series they can show, the government has announced, as China continues to try to...






