International

Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia (AP) -- Divers retrieved one black box Monday and located the other from the AirAsia plane that crashed more than two weeks ago, key developments that should help investigators unravel what caused the aircraft to…

Dammartin-En-Goele, France (AP) -- French security forces struggled with two rapidly developing hostage-taking situations Friday, one northeast of Paris where two terror suspects were holed up with a hostage in a printing plant and the…

San José, Costa Rica (AFP) -- A catamaran carrying nearly 100 tourists and 10 crew capsized and sank within minutes off Costa Rica on Thursday, leaving three elderly foreigners dead while rescuers saved dozens from the choppy seas. The…

Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia (AFP) -- Ping signals believed to be from the black box data recorders of crashed AirAsia Flight 8501 were detected Friday, a senior Indonesian search official said, offering strong hopes of explaining the disaster.…

Washington, United States (AFP) -- One of the two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is believed to have trained with Al-Qaeda in Yemen, a US official said Thursday. Another US…

St George's, Grenada -- The government of Grenada has concluded a comprehensive agreement to restructure its US$36.6 million (EC$98.8 million) indebtedness to the Export-Import (ExIm) Bank of Taiwan. This landmark agreement, which reduces…

Paris (AP) -- An assailant opened fire on a police officer on the southern edge of Paris early Thursday, killing her and injuring a nearby street sweeper before fleeing, officials and a witness said. France's interior minister cautioned…

Paris, France (AFP) -- France's iconic Eiffel Tower is to go dark late Thursday in a sombre tribute to the 12 people killed in the attack on the Paris satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The lights normally illuminating the 324-metre…

New York -- A New York man was on Wednesday sentenced to 29 years in prison for murdering a Jamaican teenager who refused to abort his baby. Christian Ferdinand, 22, said to be Jamaican born, was found guilty of murdering 14-year-old…

Washington, United States (AFP) -- After years of careful White House control over her few public appearances, a mysterious online image of first daughter Malia Obama, 16, has gone viral. The rare glimpse of a personal side of President…

Paris (AP) -- Masked gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar!" stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing 12 people before escaping. It was France's deadliest terror attack in at least two decades. French President…

Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP) -- Recovery teams have found the tail of the crashed AirAsia Flight 8501 in the Java Sea, the Indonesian search chief said Wednesday, the eleventh day of relief operations. "We have successfully obtained part of…

Geneva (AP) -- Sepp Blatter is facing a challenge from a 39-year-old Jordanian prince in his bid for a fifth term as president of soccer's scandal-tainted governing body. Declaring that "it is time for a change," FIFA Vice-president Prince…

Ankara, Turkey (AFP) -- The world is losing its ability to prevent conflicts and the lack of "effective leadership" has led to the worst displacement situation since World War II, the UN refugee chief warned Tuesday. Antonio Guterres, the…

Washington, USA -- Latin America and the Caribbean's economic growth might recover modestly to 2.2 percent in 2015, up from 1.3 percent in 2014, its lowest rate since last decade's global financial crisis. Despite the slowdown, the region…