International

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti pop star-turned-president Michel Martelly will not be singing tonight at a concert that aimed to raise money for schools. SEE ALSO: After Rhodes Lie Exposure, Yale Coach Quits Presidential adviser Damian Merlo says the Friday night concert was canceled because of the holiday season and the complexity of organizing such […]

LONDON (AP) – Queen Elizabeth II’s husband has undergone surgery for a blocked coronary artery, British royal officials said Friday. SEE ALSO: The Disappearing Black Journalist Buckingham Palace said Prince Philip, 90, was taken from Sandringham, the queen’s sprawling estate in rural Norfolk, to the cardiac unit at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge earlier Friday for […]

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Police fired tear gas at supporters of Congo’s top opposition leader Friday as he planned to inaugurate himself president despite officially losing the poll, a move that observers fear could spark more election-related violence in the mineral-rich central African nation. SEE ALSO: The Disappearing Black Journalist Some 1,000 supporters gathered near […]

NAIROBI, Kenya — Rosalia Adhiambo won’t take the free anti-HIV drugs that would prolong her life. The spiraling price of food in Kenya means she can’t afford to feed both her grandniece and herself. SEE ALSO: GOP Congressman Obsessed With Michelle Obama’s Butt So she feeds 5-year-old Emily and doesn’t take her own medicine, fearing […]

NAIROBI, Kenya — Rosalia Adhiambo won’t take the free anti-HIV drugs that would prolong her life. The spiraling price of food in Kenya means she can’t afford to feed both her grandniece and herself. SEE ALSO: GOP Congressman Obsessed With Michelle Obama’s Butt So she feeds 5-year-old Emily and doesn’t take her own medicine, fearing […]

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Hospital officials in northern Brazil say a woman have given birth to conjoined twin boys with one body and two heads. Obstetrician Neila Dahas of the Santa Casa de Misericodia Hospital in the city of Belem says the twins were born Monday by Cesarean section. She says on the hospital’s website […]

NEW YORK– Eight U.S. soldiers have been charged in the death of a fellow GI, a Chinese-American who apparently shot himself in Afghanistan after being subjected to what a community activist said were assaults and ethnic taunts from his comrades. SEE ALSO: Man Acquitted Of Sexual Assault Charges Because Of Oysters Pvt. Danny Chen, a […]

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea displayed the body of ruler Kim Jong Il in a glass coffin surrounded by red flowers Tuesday, and his young heir was one of the first to pay respects – a strong indication that a smooth leadership transition was under way. SEE ALSO: Tea Partier Calls For Assassination Of […]

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69. SEE ALSO: More Elevator Terror Stories In a “special broadcast” Monday from the North Korean capital, state media said Kim died of a heart ailment on a train due to a “great […]

PRAGUE (AP) — Vaclav Havel wove theater into revolution, leading the charge to peacefully bring down communism in a regime he ridiculed as “Absurdistan” and proving the power of the people to overcome totalitarian rule. Shy and bookish, with a wispy mustache and unkempt hair, the dissident playwright was an unlikely hero of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 […]

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI seems worn out. SEE ALSO: Man Steals His Date’s Car People who have spent time with him recently say they found him weaker than they’d ever seen him, seemingly too tired to engage with what they were saying. He no longer meets individually with visiting bishops. A few […]

KINGSTON-Patrick Drysdale, who was convicted of three separate cases of rape, including one where he forced a woman to perform oral sex on him by gunpoint before she almost severed his penis by biting it has been convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Drysdale was convicted of robbery with aggravation, indecent assault, wounding […]