Month: June 2011

A 14-year-old has won America’s national spelling bee with the word cymotrichous, which means wavy hair. Sukanya Roy, from the US state of Pennsylvania, received more than $37,000 in cash and prizes when she took […] […]

LOS ANGELES—Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, a former Los Angeles Black Panther leader who spent 27 years in prison on a murder conviction that was later overturned, has died. He was 63. Lawyer Stuart Hanlon told the […] […]

OTTAWA—Forces loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi fired a dozen rockets at a Canadian warship earlier this week in what the government is dismissing as a desperate act by a weakened regime. None of the […] […]

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s government says archaeologists have found 10 sets of skeletal remains that may belong to U.S. soldiers who died in 1846 during the Mexican-American war. Government archaeologists say the shape of the skulls and […] […]

LONDON—Someone will be getting a grilling about this. British fire crews say a truck carrying a cargo of cheese has burst into flames on an English road. The truck loaded with 24 tons of cheese […] […]

Street battles between government forces and armed tribesmen killed dozens of people and spread to new areas of Yemen’s capital today, forcing residents to cower in basements or brave gunfire to fetch bread and water. […] […]

The courier who led US intelligence to Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan hailed from the Swat Valley, a one-time stronghold of militant Taleban fighters, according to Pakistani officials. The officials identified the courier as […] […]