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Richard Lloyd Parry and Kyoko OnokiIchikawa, Tokyo
Japanese police were engaged on a murder manhunt last night after the naked corpse of a young British woman was found in a Tokyo flat buried in an sand-filled bathtub.
The severely beaten body of Lindsay Hawker, a 22-year old English conversation teacher from Coventry, West Midlands, will undergo an […]
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Como alguien que ha escrito sobre ese desierto que ha sido a menudo la polÃtica estadounidense hacia América Latina, yo debiera ser de las primeras en reconocer que es fácil ver espejismos.
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PARIS — For more than two decades, 250 historians and specialists labored to produce the first six volumes of the General History of Latin America, an exhaustive work financed by UNESCO, the United Nations organization created to preserve global culture and heritage.
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DONGGUAN, China — Wei Hoqiang used to work in a toy factory that forced him to sign a contract it did not let him read. It paid him 30 cents an hour, made him work 100 days without a day off, and kept him in a room that was ice cold in winter and suffocating […]
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Almost every day, another unmarked jet from Houston lands at the international airport in this Central American capital and disgorges a new batch of deportees from U.S. immigration custody. More than 1,800 this month. More than 13,700 since January.
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President Bush today denounced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for blocking a vote on a trade agreement with Colombia, saying the bill is “dead” unless a vote is scheduled and complaining that killing it would “stiff” an important U.S. ally.
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NOCUPETARO, Mexico — Plastic sacks give Norberto RamÃrez chills.
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LUBUMBASHI, Congo, April 13 — Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and his political rival Raila Odinga agreed on the details of a 40-member cabinet Sunday, implementing a power-sharing deal they reached in February.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said the steps necessary in Iraq before Washington can begin to withdraw U.S. troops are “already happening.”
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LUBUMBASHI, Congo — One recent afternoon in this booming mining town, in a provincial office crammed with files, something unusual was happening for a country once ruled by the famously kleptocratic dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italians voted on Monday in the final hours of a parliamentary election that could return conservative billionaire Silvio Berlusconi to power but is not widely expected to end Italy’s economic problems.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese forces found firearms hidden throughout a Tibetan temple in an ethnic Tibetan area of southwestern China which has been the scene of anti-Chinese riots in recent weeks, state television said.
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The World Bank has announced emergency measures to tackle rising food prices around the world.
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The ambush was the latest in a string of recent attacks on police in the south. Eight police were killed Saturday — four while destroying opium poppies in Kandahar and four who were manning a checkpoint in Helmand. Seven police on the poppy-eradication force were killed April 7 in Kandahar.
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More than 530 priests and deacons will be on hand to help the Pope celebrate Mass before 57,000 worshippers when he visits Yankee Stadium in New York this week.
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A body found at a railway station is believed to be that of missing children’s television presenter Mark Speight.
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SINGHPURA, India (April 13) - Standing in front of his small brick home, in a courtyard where the dirt has been packed down by generations of barefoot children, the middle-aged mustard farmer doesn’t bother to hide his exhaustion.
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It also suggests that even though the 21-year-old had her throat slit, the cause of death was suffocation, according to leaked reports.
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NAPLES - Ballot stuffing took on a new meaning in Italy’s parliamentary election yesterday when a man ate his ballot paper in protest at the country’s politicians.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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