Nation Jun 04 Men continue to outnumber women in the media, study says Men outnumber women in news anchor seats and bylines in print and online, according to a study released Thursday by the Women’s Media Center based in New York and Washington, D.C.
World Jun 04 Explosion in Ghana kills scores of people seeking shelter from rains An explosion at a gas station in Ghana’s capital Accra overnight killed more than 100 people, officials said Thursday.
World Jun 02 Rescuers try to pull people from sunken boat in China Rescue workers stood on the overturned hull of a cruise boat in China’s Yangtze River on Tuesday, hoping to extract more than 400 passengers still trapped underneath.
World May 31 Photos: Children return to school in Nepal following devastating earthquake Some schools in areas of Nepal that were hit by two powerful earthquakes on April 25 and May 12 reopened Sunday.
Nation May 31 Arresting dress: A timeline of anti-cross-dressing laws in the United States A person perceived as male who dressed in clothing customarily designed for women could technically be arrested in New York for "impersonating a female" as recently as 2011.
World May 31 Photos: India swelters as near-record temperatures persist India’s annual pre-monsoon heat wave has been unusually severe this year. Near-record temperatures have persisted for weeks and the anxiously awaited monsoon rains that cool the country in early summer have not yet arrived.
Nation May 30 Photos: Anti-Islam protest held outside Islamic community center in Phoenix Approximately 250 people gathered in front of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix on Friday during evening prayers, carrying signs decrying Islam as well as Sharia law and terrorism.
World May 30 Humanitarian crisis at sea: More than 4,200 migrants rescued in Mediterranean More than 4,200 migrants trying to reach Europe were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea over the past 24 hours, the Italian Coast Guard said Saturday, amid the swelling humanitarian crisis at sea.
World May 29 FIFA president re-elected despite corruption probe Sepp Blatter won a fifth term as president of the Federation Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, on Friday, at the end of a week of major developments in separate Swiss and American investigations into widespread corruption in the soccer…
World May 25 Mass graves in Malaysia might hold remains of smuggled migrants Police in Malaysia said Monday that more than 139 graves were found near the border with Thailand, and they suspect the graves contain the remains of migrants who were staying in camps run by smugglers.