International

Beijing (AP) -- Chinese access to Google Inc.'s email service has been blocked amid government efforts to limit or possibly ban access to the US company's services, which are popular among Chinese who seek to avoid government monitoring.…

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP) -- Saudi Arabia beheaded Monday a man for stabbing to death a relative, the interior ministry said. Misfir bin Nasser bin Misfir Lesloom al-Yami was found guilty of killing Hamad bin Ali bin Hamad Lesloom al-Yami…

Washington (CMC) -- The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) says 12 former Puerto Rico police officers have been jailed for running a criminal organization out of the Puerto Rico Police Department. The DOJ said the ex-officers used…

Washington, United States (AFP) -- Former US President George HW Bush, 90, has been admitted to a Texas hospital suffering shortness of breath, a family spokesman said Tuesday. "President Bush was taken by ambulance to the Houston…

Washington (AFP) -- Before President Barack Obama announced last week that Washington and Havana would restore diplomatic ties, one US official had already been working on a special project — call it insemination diplomacy — to unite the…

London, England -- The reviews from the London premiere of the Antiguan homegrown movie The Skin are coming in and they are good. The movie made history recently as the first feature film from Antigua and Barbuda to be screened in the…

New York, USA (AP) -- British singer Joe Cocker, whose had hits that included You Are So Beautiful and Up Where We Belong, and a contortionist style of performance memorably parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, has died. He was…

Moscow (AP) -- Russia has ordered five of the country's major state-controlled exporters to sell excess currency reserves in its latest attempt to shore up the ruble, which has endured big losses this year in the wake of sliding oil prices.…

New York (AP) -- A New York City man imprisoned for nearly 20 years for murder before a judge declared he was innocent is getting $4.75 million from the state. Fernando Bermudez told the New York Post in a statement published Tuesday, that…

New Haven, USA -- Alstom SA, a French power and transportation company, pleaded guilty on Monday and agreed to pay a $772,290,000 fine to resolve charges related to a widespread scheme involving tens of millions of dollars in bribes in…

Harare, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's festive season is marked by continued political infighting and financial austerity, as the president fired two more cabinet ministers and the country's civil servants learned they will not get annual…

New York (AP) -- The gunman who fatally ambushed two New York City police officers in their squad car had a long criminal record, a hatred for police and the government and an apparent history of mental instability that included an attempt…

New York, USA -- On Friday, Standard & Poor's (S&P) Ratings Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit ratings on Barbados to 'B' from 'BB-'. The outlook is negative. The country’s 'B' short-term sovereign credit rating was…

Montreal (AP) -- A Canadian woman who caused a fatal traffic accident after stopping her car to help ducks on a busy highway has been sentenced to 90 days in prison. Emma Czornobaj was convicted by a jury on two counts of criminal…

Washington (AP) -- A lack of unanimity in both political parties toward President Barack Obama's sudden move to re-establish ties with Cuba complicates any congressional effort to scuttle the most significant change in US policy toward the…