OTTAWA- Canada will fasttrack the immigration of Philippine citizens "directly and significantly" affected by typhoon Ketsana seeking to relocate here, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced...
LONDON - Britain is sending search and rescue experts to Indonesia to join efforts to find victims of a devastating earthquake, officials said late Thursday.
A 60-strong team of fire fighters and...
WASHINGTON- Tyrannosaurus rex and its close relatives suffered from the potentially life-threatening disease trichomonosis, which is still carried by pigeons, a study published Wednesday showed....
LONDON - A 10-year-old British girl has been barred from trying to sell her granny on eBay, who she complained was "cuddly" but "annoying," the auction website said Wednesday.
Zoe Pemberton wrote...
MOGADISHU - Somalia's hardline Islamist group Shebab on Wednesday closed down a radio station in the central town of Baidoa after banning non-Islamic music, journalists told AFP.
The Shebab...
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook wants its members to be on guard for an old scam taking on new life in the world's largest online social-networking community.
The California-based firm said it has...
LIMA - Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori, already sentenced to 25 years behind bars for human right violations, was sentenced Wednesday to six years in jail for corruption.
The ex-president...
TEGUCIGALPA - A top official from the Organization of American States on Wednesday said dialogue between deposed President Manuel Zelaya and the leaders of the June 28 coup could start next week....
MILAN, Gina Doggett - A leading Italian prosecutor on Wednesday demanded a 13-year prison term for former CIA station chief in Rome Jeff Castelli for his role in the 2003 kidnapping of a terror...
WASHINGTON- US cable television news network CNN launched a news application for the Apple iPhone on Tuesday, joining other media organizations seeking to make money from mobile devices.
The CNN...