WASHINGTON- A two-year-old girl in Florida was strangled to death by a 3.6-meter-long (8.5-foot-long) python that had escaped from its cage, police said Thursday.
Sumter County Sheriff's...
LONDON - Ronnie Biggs, 79, notorious for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and then three decades as a celebrity fugitive in Brazil, was denied parole Wednesday on grounds that he is...
CAPE TOWN - South Africa is seeking ways to equip millions of youths with skills, after education system failures have left 40 percent of youth without jobs and training, government said Tuesday....
LONDON- A white supremacist arrested by chance at a railway station in Britain was on the verge of a race hate terrorism campaign, a court heard Monday.
Neil Lewington had developed a bomb factory...
BEIJING, Dan Martin- Shopping for a new negligee, Beijing resident Ha Li is looking for something that is, as she puts it, "as easy to take off as to put on".
Filling such needs is getting easier...
CALAIS- Hundreds of leftist demonstrators from Europe on Saturday protested against the fate of illegal immigrants living in France's northern city of Calais, a key exit point to Britain....
NEW YORK, Luis Torres de la Llosa - Forty years ago, a New York City bar called the Stonewall Inn shot to global attention when its gay clientele staged a revolt against police harassment, launching...
OTTAWA, June 26, 2009 (AFP) - Canada's high court on Friday dismissed a young Jehovah Witness's arguments that forcing her to get a blood transfusion violated her rights.
In a 6-1 decision, the...
BAGHDAD, Sammy Ketz - Sipping tea and smoking from a water pipe at Shahbander, a favoured haunt for Baghdad's intelligentsia, Jafaar Bairga neatly summed up the contradictions of Iraqi views of the...
LAGOS- Nigerian university teachers have launched an indefinite strike to demand the implementation of a pay agreement and adequate funding of the universities by government, local media said...
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