Authors: Joshua CohanCameron Spencer/Getty Images(LONDON) -- An Olympics that has gone off with nary a disruption got its first taste of unruly behavior Sunday from a fan who threw a beer bottle onto the Olympic…
Authors: Jeanette TorresAAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images(JOHANNESBURG, South Africa) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's first order of business on her three-day visit to South Africa is a trip to Nelson Mandela's ancestral village of Qunu for…
Authors: Jeanette TorresSANAA, Yemen(SANAA, Yemen) -- Dozens of people were reportedly killed by a suicide bomb attack carried out Saturday in the southern Yemeni city of Jaar.Witnesses said that mourners were attending a funeral service…
Authors: Jeanette TorresHOANG DINH NAM/AFP/GettyImages(HANOI, Vietnam) -- Just a few years ago, the Vietnamese government considered homosexuality a "social evil." But on Sunday, 100 gays and lesbians gathered in Hanoi for the country's first-ever gay…
Authors: Jeanette TorresiStockphoto/Thinkstock(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- There are reports from Afghanistan of townspeople successfully taking on the Taliban when they see the government not taking action.One such place is Ander in Ghazni province. The villagers recently…
Authors: Jeanette TorresScott Peterson/Getty Images(TEHRAN, Iran) -- Tehran is calling on Turkey and Qatar to help secure the release of about four dozen Iranian pilgrims who were abducted in Syria.Iran hopes that these countries' support…
Authors: Jeanette TorresLOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab has defected to Jordan with his family, his spokesman announced on Monday.In a statement read by his spokesman Mohammed el-Etri on Al Jazeera,…
Authors: Jeanette TorresNASA/JPL-Caltech(PASADENA, Calif.) -- NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Curiosity Rover has landed on the surface of the red planet following an eight-month, 352-million-mile journey. NASA says it received a signal from the rover after…
Authors: Kelly KnaubHemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Tropical storm Ernesto is expected to soak Jamaica with three to six inches of rain and winds of 50 mph today as it barrels toward Central America. It is forecast…
Authors: Kelly KnaubiStockphoto/Thinkstock (NEW YORK) -- NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover closed in on its target Sunday, all systems go for a landing on Mars late Sunday night (Monday morning at 1:31 a.m. EDT). If there's…
