International

Voters in the US are heading to the polls in the first major round of elections since President Barack Obama won a second term one year ago. In New Jersey and Virginia, voters will pick governors. New York City will…

(BBC) A bill banning workplace discrimination against gay and transgender people has passed a critical test of support in the US Senate, 17 years after a similar bill failed by a single vote. The Democratic-led Senate voted 61-30 to open…

Hong Kong (CNN) -- A successful mission by India's Mars orbiter would make the country the first Asian nation to reach the Red Planet -- and provide a symbolic coup as neighboring China steps up its ambitions in space. Tuesday's launch was…

Florida, United States, (CMC) – The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) says a Jamaican national has pleaded guilty in connection with a Jamaica-based international lottery scheme. The DOJ said that Oneike Mickhale Barnett pleaded…

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has criticized the timing of the U.S. drone strike that killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban last week, his office said in a statement. Karzai made the comments when he met…

(CNN) A plane carrying 18 people crashed Sunday, killing eight, while landing in Bolivia, according to state news agency ABI. Ten other people were injured in the crash at the Riberalta airport, 1,000 kilometers (about 620 miles) from La…

(CNN) U.S. military and intelligence agencies pushed doctors working in military detention centers to violate medical ethics by taking part in the mistreatment of prisoners by interrogators, medical and legal experts conclude in a new…

New York, United States (AP) — Fire officials say a 19-year-old New York University student may have been trapped between two buildings for as long as two days. The victim, Asher Vongtau, was rescued at 6:25 pm Sunday. A fire department…

(BBC) A South African man found guilty of the rape and brutal murder of a 17-year-old girl has been sentenced to two life terms in prison by a court near Cape Town. State prosecutors had requested this sentence - without parole - for…

(BBC) The German government says it is keen to hear directly from the fugitive NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about the US spy agency's activities. "If the message is that Mr Snowden wants to give us information then we'll gladly accept…

Washington (CNN) -- The National Security Agency's director flatly denied a Washington Post report Wednesday that the NSA secretly broke into communications links to Google and Yahoo servers overseas. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, the NSA…

(CNN) Stranded in the unforgiving expanses of Niger's Sahara desert after their vehicles broke down, dozens of people, almost all of them women and children, slowly died of thirst. The migrants had been trying to reach Algeria, Azaoua…

(CNN) A video that appears to show a Saudi man beating a migrant worker is causing growing outrage in Saudi Arabia. In the amateur video, which went viral after it was posted on YouTube, a male worker in an orange jumpsuit is first seen…

(CNN) Investigators have shut down a newly-completed, "highly sophisticated" drug tunnel running under the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. It hasn't been utilized," ICE…

(UTAH) -- A man wrote goodbye letters to his family as he lay dying in the wreckage of his van after crashing into a remote ravine in Utah. David Welch, 54, disappeared after leaving home in Manhattan, Kansas, on September 3. His body was…