The first 2 cars were packed as usual for the morning rush, so tightly that people stood pressed flesh to flesh, sandwiched between bicycles and the few seats, many without so much as a strap to hold onto. Survivors described a full train – there reportedly were as many as 800 people aboard – and [...]
A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison in Honduras, killing more than 350 inmates, many of them trapped and screaming inside their cells. Survivors described wrenching scenes of prisoners engulfed by smoke and flames pleading for help, some unable to flee because they were shackled to the bars of their cells in what is [...]
Scores of Egyptian soccer fans were crushed to death while others were fatally stabbed or suffocated after being trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, clubs and stones, in the country’s worst ever soccer violence that killed at least 79 people, witnesses and health officials said Thursday. A [...]
Thousands of supporters in Myanmar’s countryside cheered opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday as she made a political tour ahead of by-elections, highlighting how quickly and dramatically politics is changing in the long-repressed Southeast Asian nation. Burma’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is visiting the coastal town of Dawei on a political [...]
Joran Van der Sloot, an alleged suspect in the unsolved disappearance of United States student in the Caribbean, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a young Peruvian woman during a closely-watched trial in this city. The murder took place exactly 5 years, to the day, after the disappearance of American teen Natalee [...]
An Iranian scientist who worked on uranium enrichment was killed in a bomb blast in Tehran, the state-controlled Fars news agency said, as tensions between the Islamic Republic and western countries increase over Iran’s atomic program. A blast in a Tehran neighborhood reportedly killed a nuclear scientist Wednesday morning, the latest in a string of [...]
Joran van der Sloot on Friday asked for more time to “reflect” on what plea he will make during his murder trial, shortly after his attorney indicating the 24-year-old Dutch man suddenly had changed his strategy in relation to the killing. Dutchman Joran van der Sloot has indicated that he may be prepared to plead [...]
Argentina: A government spokesman says President Cristina Fernandez will be operated on for papillary thyroid carcinoma on January 4. Cristina Fernandez, 58, will take 20 days of medical leave, her spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said. Vice president Amado Boudou will be in charge during her absence. Scoccimarro said the cancer was discovered during a routine exam [...]
A series of explosions were reported Sunday across Nigeria, including one at a Catholic Church near that capital that killed at least 25, Nigerian authorities said. A radical Muslim sect, Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility. Some 25 people died and more were hurt in an attack at St Theresa’s Church in Madalla near Nigeria’s capital [...]
Brazil’s jobless rate fell to 5.2 per-cent in November from 5.8 per-cent in October, government statistics agency IBGE said on Thursday. Brazil’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest on record in November, showing a resilience in Latin America’s biggest economy that may limit policymakers ability to enact further rate cuts. Interest-rate futures rose. Brazil Unemployment fell [...]