Five children drowned in a Houston, Texas, bayou Saturday after the car they were riding in veered off the road, police said. “She has lost weight and she looks frail and weak,” Reza Saberi said
Driver distracted by phone, children drown, police say
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Two Koreas to meet amid rising tensions
Government officials from South Korea will visit North Korea on Tuesday to hold the first talks in a year, state media said.
Southeastern States Are Hit Hard By Recession
The South, long synonymous with hyper economic growth, is going through a harrowing recession. Currently, 8 of the 15 states with the highest unemployment rates are in the South: North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida are all reporting the highest rate in their state’s history. South Carolina posted the nation’s third-highest unemployment rate for March — 11.4%, after Michigan and Oregon
How Somalia’s Fishermen Became Pirates
Amid the current media frenzy about Somali pirates, it’s hard not to imagine them as characters in some dystopian Horn of Africa version of Waterworld. We see wily corsairs in ragged clothing swarming out of their elusive mother ships, chewing narcotic khat while thumbing GPS phones and grappling hooks.
Iran sentences U.S. journalist to 8 years
A U.S. journalist in Iran was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage, her father, lawyer and news reports said Saturday — a sentence that prompted denunciation from the United States. Iranian media, including an Iranian judiciary source quoted Saturday by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, confirmed the sentence of Roxana Saberi, a 31-year-old Iranian-American from North Dakota.
Cantor Fitzgerald, 9/11 Victim, Is Thriving in Financial Crisis
Cantor Fitzgerald has plenty of experience dealing with crisis. Perhaps that’s why the firm, which is best known for bond trading and looked like it wouldn’t survive after suffering devastating losses on Sept.
Raúl Castro: Cuba ready ‘to discuss everything’ with U.S.
The Cuban government, long the object of a U.S. economic blockade, is prepared to meet with the Obama administration, Cuba’s leader said. “We’ve told the North American government, in private and in public, that we are prepared, wherever they want, to discuss everything — human rights, freedom of the press, political prisoners — everything, everything, everything that they want to discuss,” Cuban President Raúl Castro said Thursday at a summit of leftist Latin American leaders in Venezuela.
New violence hits Indian elections
New violence marred India’s general elections Friday as suspected militants attacked Indian border guards as they escorted polling staff through a treacherous passage in troubled northeastern Assam state Friday, police said. The suspected militants triggered a land mine and then ambushed the troops with gunfire, said K.K
N. Korea orders out nuclear inspectors
The International Atomic Energy Agency said its inspectors left North Korea on Thursday after being ordered out by the reclusive nation. “IAEA inspectors at the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Yongbyong nuclear facilities, on 15 April, removed all IAEA seals and switched off surveillance cameras,” a statement from the agency said
New fingerprinting technique could crack cold cases
It was early one Sunday morning when the killer rang at a front door that was decorated with a wreath for Christmas. When his victim answered, he fired four fatal shots, ran off and disappeared