Month: January 2012

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Jamaica’s government says that about 500 Cuban health workers will work on the island for the next two years to bolster understaffed clinics and hospitals. Health Minister Fenton Ferguson said Thursday that 117 doctors […] […]

DUBLIN—Two bombs planted by Irish Republican Army dissidents detonated Thursday night in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, but no injuries were reported as police quickly evacuated the area following phoned warnings. Martina Anderson, a […] […]

LONDON—The head of Interpol is in London for talks with security officials after raising concerns about passport checks in Europe. Ron Noble, secretary-general of the international police agency based in France, has criticized European countries […] […]

SYRIA’S powerful allies in Russia are vowing to block any Western attempts to intervene militarily in Syria as Damascus fights off an increasingly chaotic 10-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. The support came as Assad […] […]

AN Orlando judge has ordered Casey Anthony to answer questions from a volunteer search group which has sued her for allegedly providing false information as members helped look for her two-year old daughter in 2008. […] […]

A CALIFORNIAN woman filmed herself on her iPad smoking methamphetamine before shooting her two young children, their father and a cousin and then committing suicide, according to reports. Aide Mendez, 23, killed her two children […] […]

The founder of Wikipedia is leading calls for search engines and social media sites including Google, Facebook and Twitter to take themselves offline for an entire day in protest against a controversial bill winding its […] […]

Using cranes, bulldozers and their bare hands, Lebanese rescue workers pulled bodies from the rubble of a collapsed five-story residential building, bringing the death toll to 25, officials said. Most of the dead were foreign […] […]

As South Africa’s liberation party began its 100th-year celebrations last week, New Zealand activist David Wickham had the chance to join in and reflect on his part in the anti-apartheid movement. The African National Congress […] […]