Officials Call-Off Search for Australian Couple Missing from Carnival Cruise
Hemera/Thinkstock(SYDNEY) – Police have called-off the search for an Australian couple who went missing from the Carnival Cruise Spirit off the east coast of Australia Wednesday night.
Surveillance video from the cruise-liner showed the two peopl…
Italy’s Berlusconi May Face Fresh Bribery Charges
Ian Waldie/Getty Images(ROME) — The legal troubles of Italy’s controversial former leader Silvio Berlusconi have just deepened. Earlier this week, Berlusconi lost his first appeal of a guilty verdict for tax fraud. Now prosecutors have called fo…
Drawbridge Rising Sends Vehicle Crashing
(ROTTERDAM, Netherlands) — A forgotten lesson that whatever goes up must come down led to an eye-popping vehicle crash on a drawbridge in the Netherlands this week.
A cameraman filming a program called Netherlands from Above left his quad bike unatten…
Former Pakistani Leader Poised to Rise from the Ashes
AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images(ISLAMABAD, Pakistan) – As Pakistanis take to the polls for a historic election, the man poised to become Pakistan’s new leader isn’t really a new leader at all. He’s an old one.
Mian Nawaz Sharif,…
Woman Pulled Out Alive 17 Days After Bangladesh Building Collapse
MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images(SAVAR, Bangladesh) — Bangladeshi rescue workers pulled a seamstress from the rubble of a collapsed garment factory on Friday, 17 days after the building collapsed.”I heard voices of the rescue workers for the past sever…
Ammonia Gas Leak Discovered at International Space Station
NASA(MOSCOW) — An ammonia gas leak has been discovered on the American side of the International Space Station.According to Russian news reports, the leak is serious but not critical. NASA says the crew is not in danger. The ammonia is part of …
S. Korea’s President Fires Spokesman Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
LEE JAE-WON/AFP/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korea’s president fired her spokesman Yoon Chang-jung after he was accused of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old intern hired by the Korean Embassy at a Washington, D.C., hotel. Yoon was pa…
S. Korea’s President Fires Spokesman Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
LEE JAE-WON/AFP/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korea’s president fired her spokesman Yoon Chang-jung after he was accused of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old intern hired by the Korean Embassy at a Washington, D.C., hotel. Yoon was pa…
S. Korea’s President Fires Spokesman Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
LEE JAE-WON/AFP/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korea’s president fired her spokesman Yoon Chang-jung after he was accused of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old intern hired by the Korean Embassy at a Washington, D.C., hotel. Yoon was pa…
In Run-up to Pakistani Elections, Son of Former PM Is Abducted
TONY ASHBY/AFP/Getty Images(ISLAMABAD) — The kidnapping of a former prime minister’s son Thursday is the latest violent incident in the run-up to Pakistan’s national election this weekend.At least 100 people have been killed during the past month as t…
Iran Threatens Israel for Syrian Air Strikes
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(BEIRUT) — Iran will reportedly seek vengeance against Israel for a series of air strikes in Syria last week that targeted missiles heading to Hezbollah in Lebanon.The Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reports Iran’s supreme leader, A…
Ohio Women Give Hope to Parents of Missing Madeleine McCann
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images(LONDON) — The parents of one of Europe’s best-known missing children say the discovery of three women in Cleveland who were abducted 10 years ago provides hope their daughter can be rescued safely.Six years ago last week, Made…
US Ambassador Makes Secret Crossing Into Syria to Briefly Meet with Rebels
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford briefly crossed into northern Syria on Thursday to meet with Syrian opposition leaders.Ford was recalled from Syria in late 2011 amid the violence to overthrow Syrian Pres…
Bangladesh Factory Fire Kills at Least Eight
STR/AFP/Getty Images(DHAKA, Bangladesh) — A fire in a garment factory in Bangladesh has left at least eight people dead, including the factory’s director and a police official.The 11-story building, containing a factory and apartments, caught fire ove…
Bangladesh Factory Fire Kills at Least Eight
STR/AFP/Getty Images(DHAKA, Bangladesh) — A fire in a garment factory in Bangladesh has left at least eight people dead, including the factory’s director and a police official.The 11-story building, containing a factory and apartments, caught fire ove…
Karzai: US Wants Nine Bases in Afghanistan After 2014
SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images(KABUL, Afghanistan) — Speaking to a group of university students, Afghan President Hamid Karzai publicly disclosed a tidbit American officials have been tight-lipped on: the number of bases the U.S. has requested to keep in…
Karzai: US Wants Nine Bases in Afghanistan After 2014
SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images(KABUL, Afghanistan) — Speaking to a group of university students, Afghan President Hamid Karzai publicly disclosed a tidbit American officials have been tight-lipped on: the number of bases the U.S. has requested to keep in…
Chinese Director Facing Huge Fines over Single-Child Policy
Didier Baverel/WireImage(BEIJING) — Chinese Family Planning authorities are investigating one of the country’s top film directors and the architect of the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics, Zhang Yimou, for brazenly violating China&rsqu…
Union Protests to Target Gap over Bangladesh Worker Safety
MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A leading American labor union is throwing its weight behind public protests against Gap Inc. planned for this weekend in what the union’s leader said is an “opening salvo” in the battle against dangerous wo…
Search Underway in Australia for Two Missing from Carnival Spirit
WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images(SYDNEY) — A search is underway in Australia for two people who apparently went overboard from a cruise ship Wednesday night off the country’s east coast.Carnival said it became aware of the missing passengers during the d…