As the number of swine flu cases in Mexico wanes and rises, experts are being forced to walk a public health tightrope - if they push their message too far and the virus fizzles out, they could lose credibility. But ...Read More
Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Caribbean cruise line, the headquarters of drug giant Merck, the Johnson Space Center ...Read More
WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama will hold a state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderon on May 19. It will be the second such affair for the Obama administration. The Obamas' first state dinner, held in November for India's prime minister, was marred ...Read More
The Pennsylvania woman accused of recruiting men on the Internet to wage jihad in southern Asia and Europe pleaded not guilty Thursday to all counts in federal court in Philadelphia. The authorities say the woman, Colleen R. LaRose, is a terrorist ...Read More
(CNN) -- An American woman who authorities say called herself "Jihad Jane" is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, accused of conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the U.S. Justice Department said. The ...Read More
World stock markets fell Thursday and the euro weakened after Greece said it might seek international assistance to resolve its debt crisis. The downward trade in Asia and Europe came after Wall Street advanced for the seventh straight day. Oil prices ...Read More
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has called for the United States to share responsibility in the battle against drug traffickers in the two countries.
His comments came on a one-day visit to the border city of Ciudad Juarez where three people connected ...Read More
President Felipe Calderon visited Mexico's most violent city Tuesday after deadly attacks on US consular staff and their families upped the ante in his battle against drug gangs. Calderon's third visit to Ciudad Juarez this year followed the drive-by murders of ...Read More
President Felipe Calderon headed to Mexico's most violent city Tuesday after deadly attacks on US consular staff and their families upped the ante in his battle against drug gangs. Calderon's third visit to Ciudad Juarez this year followed the drive-by murders ...Read More
(CNN) -- Lesley Enriquez went to a birthday party and brought her husband and baby daughter along. After the food and cake and singing and children's games were done, the family piled into the car and headed home. As Enriquez's husband, ...Read More
If any place has spiraled downward in Mexico's bloody fight against organized crime, it is Ciudad Juarez, the grim border town where two Americans were shot dead in this weekend's Mexico killings. Here businesses get burned down if owners do ...Read More
Disaster management officials in Fiji say they have received reports of several deaths in the powerful category four cyclone that has battered the island nation for four days.
The deaths are believed to have occurred in the Lau group of islands, ...Read More
When we think about wars happening in the world right now, Iraq and Afghanistan jump to mind. But there is war in our backyard that can match the violence anywhere in the world, and that is the Drug War in ...Read More
The best way to get over a breakup? A vacation.
On Monday - the same day she announced her split from husband of nearly seven years, her Revolutionary Road director Sam Mendes -- Kate Winslet was spotted in a bikini on ...Read More
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A journalist has been killed in southern Mexico, the fourth slain in the country so far this year. The leader of the journalists union in Guerrero state says Evaristo Pacheco worked for the regional weekly Vision Informativa. ...Read More
EL PASO, Texas-The FBI will help Mexican officials investigate this weekend's gruesome killings of three people, including an American couple, who had ties to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juárez, the epicenter of Mexico's deadly drug war. Suspicion among Mexican law-enforcement ...Read More
Mexican officials in the violence-wracked border city of Cuidad Juarez are working hard to determine a motive for this weekend's brazen drive-by shootings of a US consulate employee, her American husband, and a Mexican citizen affiliated with the consulate. So far, ...Read More
MINGORA, Pakistan, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in the suicide attack in northwest Pakistan's Swat has risen to 14, including two soldiers, two policemen and a child, police sources said Saturday.
District Police Officer Qazi Ghulam Farooq said that ...Read More
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The death toll from a massive flood that devastated a village in southern Kazakhstan has soared to 35, the country's president said Saturday. A privately owned dam at a reservoir in the eastern Almaty region neighboring China ruptured ...Read More
March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Chilean President Sebastian Pinera plans to tap copper savings funds and may borrow abroad to pay for the estimated $30 billion cost of repairing damage caused by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country Feb. 27. More ...Read More
LAHORE, PAKISTAN - A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 39 people in this eastern city and wounding nearly 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack ...Read More
