International

(BBC) A third of all adult Americans should consider taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, according to the first such new guidelines in a decade. It is estimated that 33 million Americans - 44% of men and 22% of women - would meet the…

(BBC) Former US President Bill Clinton says President Barack Obama should find a way to let Americans keep their health coverage under his health law. Insurance companies have cancelled numerous policies that do not meet the law's strict…

(BBC) At least 10,000 people are feared to have been killed by Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the central Philippines on Friday. The UN says more than 11 million people are believed to have been affected by the storm, and some 673,000…

(BBC) A team of 12 British surgeons and paramedics is being sent to the Philippines to help the aid effort following the "appalling devastation" of Typhoon Haiyan, the PM has said. David Cameron said the team, together with the first…

(BBC) A Montreal man has died following an altercation with police in which officers fired an electric stun gun at him, Canadian media report. The man was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Monday night after the confrontation with…

Paris, France -- Jamaica’s minister of youth and culture, Lisa Hanna, led a delegation of CARICOM ministers and ambassadors in a meeting with the leadership of UNESCO on Monday to secure funding for education, youth and culture…

Manila, Philippines (AP) — One of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded slammed into the Philippines on Friday, setting off landslides, knocking out power in one entire province and cutting communications in the country's central region…

(CNN) President Barack Obama's apology to Americans whose health insurance plans are being canceled because of the Affordable Care Act opens the door to the question of how the problem will be fixed -- even as his administration tries to…

(BBC) A Royal Marine has been found guilty by a military court of murdering an injured Afghan insurgent in 2011. Two other marines were acquitted at the Military Court Centre in Wiltshire. The three - Marines A, B and C - had denied…

(CNN) The widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Thursday she believes he was killed. "I'm convinced it was a political murder, a political assassination," Suha Arafat told CNN in a telephone interview from Doha, the capital of…

New York (AP) -- The price of oil crawled above US$95 a barrel Thursday, adding to gains from the previous session on data showing a strong increase in US-demand for gasoline. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark US crude for December…

New York, United States (CMC) – The US-based Moody's Investor services is calling for a devaluation of the Eastern Caribbean (EC) dollar in a bid to assist the region address the debt crisis. In addition, Moody’s Investor is also…

(BBC) Moderate Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has won a landslide re-election, a possible launch pad for a 2016 White House run. In Virginia, Terry McAuliffe - a key Hillary Clinton ally - narrowly beat a Republican to…

(BBC) The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, says a Swiss forensic report obtained by al-Jazeera. Arafat's official medical records say he died in 2004 from a stroke resulting from a…

(CNN) More than a year after the mysterious execution-style slaying of four people in the French Alps, investigators say they're looking for a motorcyclist in connection with the case. A French police sketch released Monday shows a bearded…