VENICE - Hundreds of people turned out on Saturday in Venice for a symbolic funeral procession to highlight the Italian city's dwindling population.
A cortege of gondolas carrying empty coffins,...
NEW YORK - New York's state assembly on Tuesday put off a tentatively planned vote on a bill that would allow same-sex marriage.
"A vote did not take place. They are negotiating," a spokeswoman...
WASHINGTON - Relatives of eight victims of an Air France flight that crashed en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris have filed lawsuits seeking damages in two US states.
The US lawsuits filed in...
WASHINGTON- Two men wrongly imprisoned for life and a third still facing the death penalty argued before the Supreme Court Wednesday that their sentences were the result of judicial misconduct and...
PARIS, Carole Landry - French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who helped shape Western thinking about human civilisation, has died at the age of 100, his publisher and colleagues said Tuesday....
RIO DE JANEIRO - Hundreds of people in Salvador de Bahia turned out Monday for the funeral of Antonio Alves de Souza, Brazil's king of drums and Olodum group leader, who accompanied Michael Jackson...
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has delayed until the end of the school year the expulsion of 1,200 children of foreigners working illegally in Israel, his office said on Sunday....
WASHINGTON - Up to six bodies, many of them badly decomposed, were found in the Cleveland, Ohio home of a convicted rapist arrested Saturday, police said.
Police chief Michael McGrath said there...
BEIJING, Pascale Trouillaud- While the rest of the world struggles to bounce back from the global financial crisis, China's billionaires are living large, snapping up luxury products at a...
WASHINGTON - Students are flocking to US universities at record levels, as the recession fuels an enrollment explosion at less expensive two-year colleges, a report said Friday.
Just under 11.5...
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