World News

Mexican army finds 15 tons of pure methamphetamine

Thursday, Feb 9, 11:50 am
Mexican troops have made a historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009. Read more...
Skaters enjoy the ice despite no marathon

Thursday, Feb 9, 11:43 am
As I lace up my ice skates while sitting on the banks of the Zijlroade river Thursday, grizzled men old enough to be my father glide past me, leaning into the bone-chilling wind and effortlessly propelling themselves across the frozen surface. Read more...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood wants government sacked

Thursday, Feb 9, 11:43 am
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called Thursday on the ruling generals to sack the military-appointed government, saying it has failed to manage the deteriorating security and economic situation in the country. Read more...
Suffering deepens in bombarded Syrian city of Homs

Thursday, Feb 9, 11:27 am
Between blasts of rockets and mortar fire, Syrians used loudspeakers to call for blood donations and medical supplies Thursday in the stricken city of Homs, where a weeklong government offensive has created a deepening humanitarian crisis. Read more...
Hamas drifting away from longtime patron Iran

Thursday, Feb 9, 11:25 am
Hamas appears to be drifting away from its longtime patron Iran _ part of a shift that began with last year's Arab Spring and accelerated over Tehran's backing of the pariah regime in Syria. Read more...
Lawyer: 6 Austrians were injected with malaria

Thursday, Feb 9, 11:23 am
The number of people who claim that a Vienna psychiatric ward injected them with a parasite that causes malaria while treating them as teenagers has increased to seven. Read more...
Iran opposition leader's daughter banned from job

Thursday, Feb 9, 11:07 am
An Iranian opposition website reported Thursday that authorities have banned one of the daughters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi from her teaching job. Read more...
Greenland mourns victims of triple homicide

Thursday, Feb 9, 11:04 am
Greenland was in mourning Thursday after an 8-year-old girl and two women were bludgeoned to death and two men seriously injured in a remote Inuit village. Read more...
Arrest warrant issued for close Uribe associate

Thursday, Feb 9, 11:01 am
Colombia's chief prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for the peace commissioner of ex-President Alvaro Uribe for allegedly arranging a bogus demobilization of leftist guerrillas. Read more...
Afghan president postpones handover of US prison

Thursday, Feb 9, 11:00 am
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday claimed that an airstrike carried out by the international coalition killed eight children in eastern Afghanistan. Read more...
South Africa rhino dies in anti-poaching procedure

Thursday, Feb 9, 10:51 am
An attempt to protect a rhinoceros from poachers in South Africa by sedating it to treat its horn ended with the animal's death Thursday in front of journalists and others who had been invited to learn more about anti-poaching efforts, conservationists said. Read more...
Mexico City modern metro meets ancient Aztec life

Thursday, Feb 9, 10:43 am
After two hours' grueling drive southeast from the center of Mexico City, through paralyzing traffic jams and clouds of throat-burning smog, the bleached-white haze of air pollution gives way to pale-blue sky. Read more...
Romanian parliament approves new government

Thursday, Feb 9, 10:15 am
Romania's Parliament approved a new government led by a former spy chief on Thursday, and he promised to keep up the austerity measures the country imposed to win international loans but to raise public-sector salaries as soon as he can. Read more...
Bishop warns of priest sex abuse cases in Asia

Thursday, Feb 9, 10:14 am
A culture of silence across Asia may be keeping many victims of clergy sex abuse there from coming forward, a top Asian church official told a Vatican-backed conference on Thursday. Read more...
9 sentenced for London Stock Exchange terror plot

Thursday, Feb 9, 10:02 am
A British judge on Thursday sent nine men to prison for al-Qaida inspired plots to bomb the London Stock Exchange and set up a terrorist training camp. Read more...