World Jul 28 Historic Flooding, Landslides Kill at Least 49 in South Korea South Korean soldiers remove tons of mud after a flood caused by heavy rains hit the area around an apartment complex in Seoul on Thursday. Photo by Park Ji-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images. Unrelenting rain pounding Seoul, South Korea, and the southern part…
Nation Jul 27 Kandahar Mayor Killed in Suicide Attack, 32 Dead in S. Korean Rains The mayor of Kandahar was killed after a suicide bomber infiltrated a meeting at city hall and detonated explosives hidden in his turban. The attack comes weeks after another key figure in Kandahar's politics, President Hamid Karzai's half-brother Ahmed…
World Jul 25 Accused Norway Gunman in Court as Country Mourns After Killing Spree Norwegians observe a minute's silence in Bergen on Monday for the victims of Friday's attacks that left 93 dead. Photo by Marit Hommedal/AFP/Getty Images. Updated 11:30 a.m. ET Police in Norway have lowered the number of people killed in Friday's…
World Jul 18 World Week Ahead: Murdoch Testifies, Indonesia’s Health Scene Explored The fallout from the British hacking scandal continues to spread like wildfire. Monday, the resignation of the assistant chief of Scotland Yard followed Sunday's departure by the agency's chief and the arrest of former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks.
World Jul 15 News International CEO Brooks Resigns, Turkey Hosts Libya Talks News International CEO Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of British tabloid News of the World, announced her resignation Friday after weeks of mounting pressure. Brooks oversaw the now-shuttered newspaper from 2000 to 2003, when it allegedly hacked into subjects'…
World Jul 14 Suicide Bomber Kills 4 at Karzai Service, No Suspects in Mumbai Attacks A suicide bomber in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killed four people Thursday at a memorial service for Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of President Hamid Karzai. The attacker apparently hid the explosives in his turban, according to witnesses and officials. He…
World Jul 13 3 Explosions Rattle Mumbai, Reports Say 21 Killed, 113 Wounded Authorities in India say three explosions in a busy section of Mumbai have killed at least 23 people and injured an estimated 113 more.
Nation Jul 07 Scandal-Plagued News of the World to Shut Down Sunday An ad for News of The World, a newspaper published by News International Newspapers Ltd and a subsidiary of News Corp., is displayed at a store in Canvey Island, U.K., on Thursday. Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images. News…
World Jul 07 Top Pakistani Scientist Claims N. Korea Nuclear Ties, China Denies Rumors of Jiang Zemin’s Death Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, has claimed that the North Korean government paid bribes to officials in Islamabad in exchange for nuclear technology in the late 1990s, according to the Washington Post. Khan said…
World Jul 06 Somali Terror Suspect in U.S. Court, 9 Feared Dead in Afghanistan Plane Crash A Somali man, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, appeared in a New York City courtroom, months after he was detained in the Gulf of Aden on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities. He faces charges of aiding al Qaida -- specifically…