08/03/2012 07:10 PM
Health officials in Uganda say a prisoner with a suspected case of Ebola escaped from Kagadi hospital overnight Friday, sparking concern the man could spread the highly contagious, sometimes fatal ...
08/02/2012 08:38 PM
Typhoon Saola brushed past the northern and central Philippines this week, dumping as much as 1.5 feet of rain on the nation. Officials say nearly 180,000 people have been displaced by severe flood...
08/02/2012 05:37 PM
A couple accused of adultery in northern Mali were stoned to death Sunday by Islamists that seized control of the area in a military coup in March. Officials say both of the victims were married. T...
08/01/2012 09:09 PM
Abdi Jeylani Marshale, a popular Somali comedian known for impersonating Islamic insurgents, was killed late Tuesday outside Kulmiye radio station in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Police lieuten...
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A second massive power outage hit India Tuesday, causing widespread transportation issues and leaving hundreds of millions of people in the dark. Power officials say three regional electricity grid...
07/30/2012 03:45 PM
As heavy rain continued to soak North Korea on Monday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) predicted more damage to buildings and crops in the coming days. The agency said Monday the ma...
07/27/2012 06:38 PM
The seven year countdown to the London Olympics will come to an end Friday night with a 3 hour opening ceremony at Olympic Stadium. The ceremony, created by Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle,...
07/26/2012 06:54 PM
The wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai has officially been charged with the “intentional murder” of a British man who had business dealings with her family. The official Xinhua news agency ...
07/25/2012 09:43 PM
A wealthy Nigerian man died Tuesday in Ogbadibo, Benue state while being raped by five of his six wives. In their report about the attack, police said Uroko Onoja was “raped to death.”
07/25/2012 05:32 PM
Track star Voula Papachristou will no longer be competing for Greece in the London Olympics due to a recent Twitter post in which she joked about African immigrants and the West Nile virus. Greece’...
07/24/2012 05:34 PM
Pakistani officials say two people were killed Tuesday in Khyber Agency, a district bordering Afghanistan, when gunmen attacked a convoy carrying supplies for NATO troops. The convoy was attacked b...
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07/19/2012 09:18 PM
U.S. Military officials confirm a Navy Helicopter carrying 5 crew members crashed in Oman Thursday. It is unclear if any of the crew members survived. A spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Central Comm...
07/18/2012 09:58 PM
The Syrian government took a hard hit Wednesday when an explosion at the National Security headquarters in Damascus killed four top aides of President Bashar al-Assad. The opposition Free Syrian Ar...
07/18/2012 06:22 PM
A bus carrying Israeli tourists exploded outside Burgas Airport in Bulgaria Wednesday, resulting in at least three deaths. The cause of the explosion remains unclear, but Israeli Prime Minister Ben...
07/16/2012 01:48 PM
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Heavy rain and flooding on the Japanese island of Kyushu has killed over a dozen people, local authorities have confirmed. Kumamoto and Oita prefectures were the worst hit areas. Record amounts of ...
