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…
Investigators Looking to See if Cousin Radicalized Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Glenn DePriest/Getty Images(MOSCOW) — Investigators have widened their search into possible contacts between one of the alleged Boston bombers and extremist militants in Russia’s turbulent Caucasus region. This time, they are looking into whethe…
Russia Marks 68th Anniversary of Victory over Nazi Germany
Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images(MOSCOW) — Russians celebrated Victory Day on Thursday, marking the 68th anniversary of the triumph over Nazi Germany. The Soviet Union was the country hardest hit during World War II. Nearly 24 million of its people …
Report: Militant Group in Syria with Al Qaeda Ties Getting Stronger
Scott Peterson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — If a story in The Guardian turns out to be accurate, it could spell more trouble for the Obama administration as it mulls how to respond to the growing crisis in Syria.According to the report in the British news…
We Will Denuclearize North Korea, South Korean President Vows
LEE JAE-WON/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — South Korean President Park Geun-hye told a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday that a nuclear North Korea is intolerable and unacceptable.Park, who only became president earlier this year, has al…
US Gets Going on Arranging Syrian Peace Conference
JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images(MOSCOW) — Secretary of State John Kerry got the ball rolling Wednesday on a joint Washington-Moscow plan to hold an international conference that might lead to an end of hostilities in Syria.Kerry and Russian Foreign Minist…
Kurdish Region of Iraq Rocked by Suicide Bomb Attacks
iStockPhoto/Thinkstock(BAGHDAD) — The semiautonomous Kurdish region of Iraq, which has largely escaped most of the recent revival of sectarian bloodshed, was hit hard Wednesday, according to Iraqi authorities.Two suicide bombers and a car explosion le…
US Sending Additional $100 Million in Humanitarian Aid to Syria
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The Obama Administration is releasing an additional $100 million dollars to civilians who have been driven out of the Syrian homes by the brutal civil war. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell made the annou…
Prince Harry Coming to America
Stuart Wilson/Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince Harry is about to embark on a six-city whirlwind tour of the United States.The prince will arrive in Washington, D.C., Thursday. He is arriving on a commercial flight and will be accompanied by just five mem…
Kate and William Poach Housekeeper from the Queen
ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/GettyImages(LONDON) — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge placed an ad for household help in January but, in the end, they didn’t have to look far to find the right royal servant to help with their growing family.A 13-year veteran…
New Terrorist Magazine Targets Obama, Drones
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — President Barack Obama appears with a bull’s-eye on his head in a new English-language magazine published online apparently by Islamist militants, who also urge Muslims around the world to try to hack an…
Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Family Fears Russia Will Take Ashes if Cremated
FBI(MOSCOW) — If burying the dead Boston bombing suspect in the United States is proving to be difficult, his family is finding it may be impossible in their native Russia.That’s because, according to legal experts there, Russia has a policy of not gi…