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Created on Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:30
Serious flaws in the signalling system caused a fatal collision on China's high-speed rail network, officials say.
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Created on Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:00
Tripoli has condemned the UK for recognising the rebels as Libya's "sole governmental authority" after similar moves by France and the US.
Khaled Kaim, deputy foreign minister in Muammar Gaddafi's government, told reporters the decision was unprecedented and irresponsible.
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Created on Thursday, 28 July 2011 12:00
WASHINGTON- El gobierno de Obama ha aceptado revisar sus programas de promoción de la democracia en Cuba, dijo el miércoles un senador estadounidense.
El senador John Kerry de Massachusetts había bloqueado un fondo de 20 millones de dólares para los programas.
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Created on Thursday, 28 July 2011 10:30
El primer ministro chino, Wen Jiabao, prometió que los responsables del accidente ocurrido la semana pasada en la red ferroviaria de alta velocidad serán severamente castigados.
En una visita a la escena del accidente - que dejó al menos 39 muertos y casi 200 heridos- Wen dijo que la investigación que ordenó "pasará la prueba de la historia".
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Created on Thursday, 28 July 2011 09:14
Independent commission to review and assess country's security measures after period of national grieving.ens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian prime minister, has said that an independent commission will be set up to review the response to the recent gun-and-bomb attack that killed at least 76 people.
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Created on Wednesday, 27 July 2011 18:08
Four officers accused of killing 201 people in the second massacre trial related to country's 36-year civil war.
The trial of four former Guatemalan soldiers, charged with taking part in a 1982 massacre of hundreds of civilians during the country's 36-year civil war, has begun in the Guatemalan capital.
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Created on Wednesday, 27 July 2011 18:00
DONNA, Texas - Almost three dozen uniformed Mexican soldiers in four military vehicles crossed the Rio Grande into South Texas without authorization Tuesday in an international incident U.S. officials were calling inadvertent.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Rick Pauza said no gunfire or injuries were reported when the 33 soldiers crossed the new Donna-Rio Bravo International Bridge over the Rio Grande, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southeast of McAllen. The soldiers were processed and returned to Mexico, he said.
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Created on Wednesday, 27 July 2011 14:30
MIACATLAN, Mexico- A Mexican judge on Tuesday sentenced a teenage U.S. citizen to three years in prison for homicide, kidnapping and drug and weapons possession. Authorities say the teen confessed to killing four people whose beheaded bodies were found suspended from a bridge.
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Created on Wednesday, 27 July 2011 13:30
WASHINGTON - More than 40 Americans have been recruited and radicalized by al-Qaida-linked terrorists in Somalia and have gone to the war-torn country to fight, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says.
Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican, plans to outline the findings of his committee's own investigation Wednesday during the third hearing in a series on Muslim radicalization in the U.S.
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Created on Wednesday, 27 July 2011 12:00
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - There were no Scooby snacks to eat - but at least they had each other for company.
Two goldfish, named Shaggy and Daphne after characters from the animated television show Scooby Doo, have become the smallest and hardiest survivors of the devastating February earthquake in Christchurch that killed 181 people.
The fish spent four and a half months - 134 days - trapped in their tank in the city's off-limits downtown without anyone to feed them or even any electricity to power their tank filter before they were discovered this month and rescued.
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