World/Local News

GUATEMALA CITY—Searchers on Monday pulled more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and people trying to save them. Yet more mudslides helped raise Guatemala’s official death toll to 44 after […] […]

KINSHASA, CONGO—Survivors who swam to safety after their overcrowded boat capsized over the weekend said nearby fishermen refused to help drowning passengers in the dark of night, instead looting the goods aboard the burning vessel […] […]

The timing couldn’t have been worse. Jennifer Wong had finished moving her belongings into her new College St. apartment around 9 p.m. Sunday. Two hours later, a fire started in the building’s basement, quickly growing […] […]

LAKKI MARWAT, PAKISTAN—A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an […] […]

A RUSSIAN teenager is facing castration after being severely beaten by police in the Volga river town of Kstovo. The doctors now treating the 17-year-old, Nikitin Kaftasev, “are not sure whether they will be able […] […]

A British politician who campaigned with Prime Minister David Cameron during the last election cried after his wife was exposed as a £70-an-hour ($150-an-hour) prostitute, according to the Daily Mail newspaper. Carla, the 39-year-old wife […] […]

Days after the United States officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq’s ability to defend itself, American troops yesterday found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the centre of Baghdad. […] […]

BAGHDAD—Only one of Nidal Haidar’s six sisters is married. She has given up on ever getting hitched. “Our chances of finding husbands are diminishing as we grow older,” said Haidar, a 38-year-old dressmaker from Baghdad. […] […]

VIENNA—In an unusually blunt warning, the U.N. atomic agency said Monday that its monitoring of Iran’s nuclear activities is being hampered because Tehran objects to giving some agency inspectors access to its program. The complaint […] […]