. PORTOVIEJO – It was supposed to be a family reunion to celebrate a young relative’s start of college. But the gathering ended in tragedy when...
. MINAMIASO – U.S. airlifts were delivering water, bread, ready-to-eat food and other emergency supplies Monday to a remote area of southern Japan stricken by two...
. . KYUSHI –  Rescuers in Japan were digging through the rubble of buildings and mud on Saturday to reach dozens believed trapped after a powerful...
. KYUSHU – A 6.5-magnitude quake struck the island of Kyushu, about 550 miles southwest of Tokyo yesterday, bringing down buildings, killing at least nine people and...
. PENANG – State Wldlife officials in Penang have reported that a massive python was caught at a Penang Constuction site, saying it could be the...
. . CHICAGO – Prosecutors in Illinois said in a court filing that Former Republican United States House Speaker Dennis Hastert agreed to pay $3.5 million...
. . YANGON – As promised by Myanmars ruling party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, prisons have begun releasing political prisoners. Burmese language media said Friday...
 . . NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Merle Haggard didn’t just write great country songs, he lived them. His real life experiences of poverty as the...
 .  . BEIJING – China has banned most imports of North Korean coal and iron ore, the country’s main exports, in a significant increase in pressure...
. . ANKARA – Syrian women and children trying to escape from civil war and ISIL are being forcibly returned to the country, in direct contravention...
. . WASHINGTON - In a landmark decision, the US military has granted a decorated Sikh-American officer a long-term religious accommodation allowing him to continue serving...
. . KUALA LUMPUR – The Wall Street Journal has uncovered reports that Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bank accounts were used to purchase $15 million...
. NAYPYITAW– Members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) were in tears on Wednesday as Myanmar swore in its first president...
. TAIPEI – An enraged crowd called for justice and the death penalty after Taiwanese suspect Wang Jingyu was arrested for beheading a four-year-old girl in...
 . TOKYO – Police in Japan have detained a 23-year-old man wanted for abducting the girl and holding her captive in his apartment for two years....
. HAGUE, Netherlands – A U.N. court convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and nine other charges Thursday and sentenced him to 40...
 . BRUSSLES – Police are holding six people following a series of raids in Brussels over the attacks on the city’s airport and Metro system. The...
. . WELLINGTON – New Zealand has voted to keep its current flag by a margin of 57 per cent to 43 per cent in a...
. BRUSSELS - Belgian police have identified a prime suspect in Tuesday’s Brussels blasts and two suspected suicide bombers, linking them directly to Islamic State militants...
BELGIUM – Explosions rocked Brussels International Airport and a city metro station on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 35, according to...