International

London (CMC) -- An inquest has been told that a Royal Navy veteran died after drinking a mouthful from a pear drink shipped from the Caribbean that contained cocaine in a concentration at least 20 times the lethal level. Joromie Lewis, 33,…

Lusaka, Zambia (AFP) -- Zambian President Michael Sata, 77, has died in London where he was receiving medical treatment, local media reported Wednesday. There was no immediate confirmation from Zambian officials in the capital Lusaka. The…

Geneva, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Liberia may be seeing a decline in the spread of Ebola, with falls in the number of burials and new admissions as well as a plateau in laboratory-confirmed cases, the World Health Organization said on…

Washington (AFP) -- An online retailer in California is making no apologies for marketing Ebola-themed outfits for grown-ups looking to add some shock value to their Halloween party get-ups. Brands On Sale has so far sold "hundreds" of…

Dallas (AP) -- American Airlines and US Airways will combine their frequent flier programmes early next year and, for now, will continue to base free flights on how many miles customers fly. Delta and United, on the other hand, plan to…

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Six months after a passenger ferry sank off the coast of South Korea, a victim's body was discovered inside the wreckage on Tuesday. The body was found on the fourth floor in the women's bathroom, located at the…

London (AP) -- British police say they detained a man after he ran up to Prime Minister David Cameron on a street and appeared to collide with him. But officers quickly released the man, saying there was "nothing sinister" about the…

Marysville (AP) -- A 14-year-old girl who was wounded when a student opened fire inside a Washington state high school has died, raising the death toll in the shooting to three, including the gunman. Gia Soriano died Sunday night, more…

Rio De Janeiro (AP) -- Left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff was re-elected Sunday in the tightest race Brazil has seen since its return to democracy three decades ago, giving the juggernaut Workers' Party its fourth-straight presidential…

Geneva, Switzerland -- The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has convened a meeting with top government officials from Ebola-affected countries, regulatory agencies, vaccine manufacturers and funding agencies to discuss and…

Port Harcourt, Nigeria (AFP) -- The sister of Nigeria's powerful petroleum minister has been kidnapped in the oil hub of Port Harcourt, police said Friday, in the latest abduction targetting a prominent political family. Osio Agama, whose…

Paris, France (AFP) -- A French investigator who went to Moscow to probe the plane crash that killed Total's chief executive said Friday the snowplough that caused the accident crossed the runway and then mysteriously reversed back into the…

Ottawa, Canada (AFP) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was shoved into a closet when a gunmen stormed parliament, local newspapers said Friday. According to MPs cited anonymously by the daily Globe & Mail and others, Harper…

Miami, USA -- The crew of the US Coast Guard Cutter Charles David Jr. repatriated 43 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, on Wednesday. These repatriations are a result of three separate interdictions of people attempting to migrate…

Monrovia, Liberia (AP) -- Dozens of people quarantined for Ebola monitoring in western Liberia are threatening to break out of isolation because they have no food, the West African nation's state radio reported Thursday. Forty-three people…