International

WESLEY CHAPEL, Florida (AP) -- Chad Oulson was described by friends as a man who loved dirt bikes and his baby daughter. Curtis Reeves was a retired Tampa police officer who liked riding his motorcycle with his wife and was once on his…

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — First the Nigerian police targeted the gay men, then tortured them into naming dozens of others who now are being hunted down, human rights activists said Tuesday, warning that such persecution will increase under a…

ROSWELL, New Mexico (AP) — A 12-year-old New Mexico boy drew a shotgun from a band-instrument case and shot and wounded two classmates at his middle school Tuesday morning before a teacher talked him into dropping the weapon and he was…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemalan authorities have detained two women who threw flour on vice president Roxana Baldetti's face at the end of the president's state of the nation speech. Baldetti was about to leave the Teatro National on…

London (CNN) -- Russia has expelled an American journalist and author critical of President Vladimir Putin in one of the first such cases since the Cold War. David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times and author of…

(CNN) -- Between 200 and 300 women and children who were fleeing fighting in South Sudan drowned when an overloaded ferry overturned on a river, a South Sudanese army spokesman said Tuesday. The accident happened Saturday on the White Nile…

(CNN) -- It started with a father sending text messages to his daughter during the previews of a movie. It ended with the 43-year-old man shot dead amid the theater seats, and a 71-year-old retired police officer in custody. That man was…

Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of demonstrators on Tuesday continued anti-government protests in Bangkok intended to drive Thailand's Prime Minister out of office. The protesters have laid siege to major intersections in…

Juba, South Sudan (AP) — A military spokesman in South Sudan says 200 people fleeing warfare died after a boat crossing the Nile River sank. Colonel Philip Aguer said Tuesday that the boat was mostly carrying women and children. Tens of…

(BBC)--A permit to hunt and kill an endangered Black Rhino in Namibia has been sold at a US auction for $350,000 (£212,000). The Dallas Safari Club in Texas says the hunt will help protect the species by removing an old aggressive rhino,…

(BBC)--Councils that back "fracking" will get to keep more money in tax revenue, David Cameron has said as he urged opponents to "get on board". The prime minister said English local authorities would receive all the business rates…

(BBC)--Israel is holding the burial service of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at his family ranch in the Negev desert. Earlier, speakers at the state memorial described him as an "indomitable" man devoted to the security of his people.…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Ariel Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died Saturday, eight years after a stroke left him in a…

(CNN) -- The Israeli Ministry of Construction and Housing has issued tenders for the building of 1,877 settlement units in the West Bank and Jerusalem. A spokesman for the minister of housing said new projects have been announced and will…

(CNN) -- The United Nations' refugee agency resumed aid deliveries to an estimated 100,000 people in the Central African Republic who've sought refuge at the capital's international airport from the violence ravaging the country. The…