International

(CNN) -- There's no need to tell football fans in Seattle to take it up a notch. They're doing just fine, thank you. After setting a Guinness World Record for noise at an outdoor stadium in September, CenturyLink Field went seismic during…

(CNN) -- A man fishing from a kayak off a Hawaiian island has died after being bitten by a shark, authorities said Monday. The incident was the latest in an alarming spate of shark attacks in the state this year. The attack took place…

New York (CNN) -- The commuter train that jumped its tracks in the Bronx was barreling into a curve at nearly three times the posted speed when it derailed, killing four passengers, federal safety officials said Monday. Preliminary data…

(BBC)--The US authorities have begun an investigation into the causes of Sunday's train crash in the Bronx area of New York in which four people were killed and more than 60 injured. The 05:54 from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Station…

(BBC)--No mayday call was made from the police helicopter that crashed into a busy Glasgow pub, killing nine people. Air accident investigators said the helicopter had made a "vertical descent" before it struck The Clutha at 22:25 on…

(BBC)--The UN's human rights chief has said an inquiry has produced evidence that war crimes were authorised in Syria at the "highest level", including by President Bashar al-Assad. It is the first time the UN's human rights office has so…

(BBC)--A US winter storm blamed for up to a dozen deaths is threatening to bring travel misery to the East Coast on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday. The system, which dumped heavy rain and snow over the region on Tuesday, has already…

(BBC)--David Cameron has defended plans to toughen welfare rules for EU migrants, saying he was sending a "clear message" to people that the UK was not a "soft touch" for claiming benefits. He said he shared public concerns about the end…

(BBC)--Latvia's PM Valdis Dombrovskis has announced his resignation, and thereby the fall of his government, over the deadly collapse of a Riga supermarket. He made the announcement at a meeting with President Andris Berzins. "Considering…

(BBC)--The gunman who killed 26 people at a Connecticut school last year had "an obsession" with the 1999 Columbine massacre, an official report has found. Police said there was evidence Adam Lanza, 20, had planned the shooting, which took…

(BBC)--Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has launched his government's independence blueprint, calling it a "mission statement" for the future. The 649-page White Paper promised a "revolution" in social policy, with childcare at its…

(BBC)--Pope Francis has called for power in the Catholic Church to be devolved away from the Vatican, in the first major work he has written in the role. In the document, he says he is open to suggestions to changes in the power of the…

St John’s, Antigua -- Ambassador Colin Murdoch, who led a delegation representing Antigua and Barbuda to meet with US representatives in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2013, in another effort to resolve the longstanding dispute between…

(BBC)--A Boeing 747 Dreamlifter cargo plane will attempt to take off from a minor airport in Kansas after it landed there by mistake. The giant cargo jet was heading for McConnell air force base in Wichita but instead touched down at…

(BBC)--Three women have been "rescued" from a house in south London as police investigate claims they were held as slaves for about 30 years. Police arrested two suspects, a 67-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman. Last month officers…