The year kicked off with President Yoweri Museveni announcing the long-awaited Cabinet reshuffle that came with big surprises. The big new comers in the mid February changes included the First Lady Janet Museveni, as State Minister for...

A passenger ferry sank in the northern Philippines in a second sea disaster in three days. Six bodies, including three children, were recovered and at least 22 people were missing Sunday. Search-and-rescue teams rescued at least 60 passengers and...

They are old and balding now, the 15 defendants standing trial before a three-judge panel near the Argentine capital’s bustling port. But prosecutors say they were once the feared henchmen of a brutal military dictatorship. Argentina has...

A coal mine explosion has killed 12 people in northern China, while five other miners were killed and six trapped in an accident in the southwest of the country, state media reported Monday. The official Xinhua News Agency said 12 miners were...

A series of avalanches in the Italian Alps has killed seven people, emergency services said. Four of those who died were rescuers searching for two tourists killed by an earlier avalanche in the Trentino region of northern Italy. Another...

The United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against the Al-Qaeda terror network in Yemen, accoding to The New York Times newspaper. A year ago, the Central Intelligence Agency sent a number of its top field operatives...

The 86-year-old governor of a southern Indian state resigned, a day after a television news channel broadcast a tape allegedly showing him in bed with three women. Pressure mounted on Gov. Narain Dutt Tiwari to quit after the tape allegedly...

Iranian security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters in the center of the capital Sunday in one of the bloodiest confrontations in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said. At least five people were killed. Some accounts of the...

President Hugo Chavez’s new National Police Force formally came into being last Sunday and officers were promptly despatched to take up the battle against bad guys in arguably the single most dangerous district in a city that’s widely...

Colombia’s beautiful women are often praised, but to also pay respect to ugly men, a village in the south east of the country decided to organize an ugly pageant for the local men. According to the organizers in Tunia, Cauca, the...