Month: April 2011

An Egyptian security official says a bus fell off a ferry into the Nile River and that at least 17 people drowned in the accident. The official says the minibus was packed with 32 passengers, […] […]

Morocco’s interior minister says that initial results of an investigation show that a bomb which killed 15 people in a crowded tourist cafe was packed with nails and was set off remotely. While Interpol, the […] […]

The United States has raised allegations that Muammar Gaddafi’s regime gives viagra to troops to carry out rapes as the UN Security Council wrangled over coalition attacks in Libya, diplomats said. Russia and other nations […] […]

HUNDREDS of thousands of pilgrims are set to descend on Rome to witness the beatification of John Paul II, the first “global pope”, who will be put on the track to sainthood only six years […] […]

Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was […] […]

TOKYO—The Dalai Lama has presided over prayers for victims of Japan’s tsunami at a temple in Tokyo. The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists led a group of monks as they chanted on the 50th day […] […]

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama—An Alabama judge has declined to dismiss a capital murder charge against a man charged with killing his wife during a 2003 honeymoon diving trip to Australia. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Tommy Nail denied […] […]

A MASSIVE explosion ripped through a cafe popular with foreign tourists in the Moroccan city of Marrakech last night, killing 14 and wounding 20 in what the government called a “criminal act”. The suspected suicide […] […]

A New Mexico woman died after being attacked by four pit bulls while taking a walk in her neighbourhood at Easter in a mauling that ended only after a police officer began spraying the animals […] […]