International

(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…

(CNN) -- A lightning strike killed three people on a beach in Argentina Thursday and injured 22 others, state media reported. "We were hiding in a tent to take shelter from the storm when we felt an explosion, and then I saw my friend…

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban news media say former President Fidel Castro has appeared in public for the first time since April last year. The Communist Party newspaper Granma reports that the 87-year-old Castro appeared Wednesday night at the…

Caracas, Venezuela (AP)--A popular soap-opera actress and former Miss Venezuela and her Irish ex-husband were shot and killed, and their five-year-old daughter wounded, when they resisted robbers by locking their car doors after it broke…

Washington (AP) -- The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says there has been a big jump in thieves stealing Social Security numbers to fraudulently claim tax refunds. The agency said it launched 1,492 criminal investigations…

North Carolina (CMC) -- The United States Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) agency says a former religious minister has been jailed for 25 years for engaging in illicit sexual conduct while on mission trips in Haiti. ICE said Larry Michael…

Rio De Janeiro (AP) -- The head of World Cup projects for Brazil's far-western Mato Grosso state has acknowledged a light railway system in the city of Cuiaba meant to help football fans move around the city during World Cup matches there,…