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Nigerian vice president now acting president
Nigeria's vice president is telling the nation he has assumed the presidency as the West African nation's leader remains hospitalized in Saudi Arabia.
updated: 4 minutes ago

Health crisis in Haiti enters a deadly new phase
Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti's cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath. Brought into the capital's General Hospital with fever and diarrhea, little Abigail literally dried up.
updated: 6 minutes ago

Haiti parents testify they gave kids to Americans
A lawyer for 10 U.S. missionaries detained in Haiti says parents of the children they're suspected of kidnapping told a judge they freely handed over their kids.
updated: 18 minutes ago

Irish abuse victims ask pope to replace bishops
Prominent Irish victims of Catholic sexual abuse have written to Pope Benedict XVI asking him to take responsibility for the church's concealment of child molestation by forcing out bishops implicated in the decades of cover-up.
updated: 39 minutes ago

Canada to take injection site case to top court
Canada's government says it will appeal a British Columbia court ruling that sanctioned North America's first safe injection site for drug users.
updated: 57 minutes ago

US poised to seize Afghan town as Taliban dig in
U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone.
updated: 58 minutes ago

Iran sentences another activist to death
An Iranian court has convicted another opposition activist on charges related to the country's post-election turmoil and sentenced him to death, the judiciary said Tuesday.
updated: 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

Argentina's Kirchner leaves ICU after surgery
Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner was out of intensive care Tuesday after emergency surgery on an important artery feeding blood to his brain.
updated: 1 hour, 19 minutes ago

Defiant Iran accelerates nuclear program
Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level on Tuesday, an acceleration of its nuclear program that was followed by a U.S. threat of a "significant regime of sanctions."
updated: 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

Russian military calls US missile defense a threat
U.S. missile defense plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms control treaty with Washington, Russia's top military officer said Tuesday.
updated: 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

Uruguay floods prompt more than 5,000 to evacuate
Flooding in Uruguay has swamped roads and homes, forced thousands to evacuate and cut power and water service.
updated: 1 hour, 47 minutes ago

Sri Lankan parliament dissolved ahead of new vote
Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament Tuesday to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested a key opposition leader, crippling the only serious threat to the ruling party's stifling grip on power.
updated: 1 hour, 57 minutes ago

It's a wrap! Hospitals test new, more modest gown
The British government is getting behind a plan to replace drafty open-backed hospital gowns with versions that preserve patients' modesty.
updated: 2 hours, 11 minutes ago

Netanyahu's government tries to save settler house
The Israeli government has stepped in to save a house built illegally by Jewish settlers in a volatile Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem, complicating already troubled U.S. efforts to renew Mideast peacemaking.
updated: 2 hours, 26 minutes ago

Dubai tower shut after visitors stuck in elevator
Visitors on the observation deck of the world's tallest tower heard a loud boom, then saw dust that looked like smoke seeping through a crack in an elevator door 124 floors above the ground. The 15 people inside were trapped for 45 frightening minutes until rescuers managed to pry open the doors.
updated: 2 hours, 35 minutes ago

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