Iraq death toll down sharply in 2011
Iraq’s death toll from violence in 2011 fell sharply from previous years, with nearly 1,000 fewer people being killed than in 2009 and 2010, official figures showed Sunday. A total of 2,645 people were killed More...
N. Koreans urged to defend Jong-Un “unto death”
North Korea urged its people Sunday to defend new leader Kim Jong-Un to the death, in a new year newspaper editorial published by state media setting out policy for 2012. “The whole party, the entire army More...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews wear Holocaust garb at religious protest
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews, some wearing yellow stars or the uniforms of Holocaust death camp inmates, demonstrated Saturday against what they called media attacks against them over their efforts to segregate More...
Kenyan Jeptoo wins San Silvestre in record time
Kenya’s world championship marathon silver medallist Priscah Jeptoo won the women’s San Silvestre race here on Saturday in a record time of 48min 48sec. The 27-year-old – winner of the Paris and More...
World welcomes 2012 with parties and spectacular fireworks
With glittering fireworks and celebrations from New Zealand to Times Square, the world eagerly welcomed a new year and hope for a better future Saturday, saying goodbye to a year of hurricanes, tsunamis and economic More...
Party as Samoa loses Friday in time zone jump
Samoans celebrated in the streets at midnight Thursday when, with a song, a prayer and the ringing of bells, they wiped Friday off the calendar this week in a historic leap across the dateline. The midnight switch More...
Cuba Catholics worship patron saint in seaside mass
Thousands of Cuban Catholics flocked to Havana Bay for an open-air mass marking the end of a 16-month island tour of the statue of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, Cuba’s patron saint. The service was led by More...
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls Egypt strongman over NGO raids
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta conveyed his “deep concern” to Egypt’s military ruler over police raids on pro-democracy groups, the Pentagon said, after a major clampdown this week drew a torrent More...