Month: September 2011

The death toll from a magnitude 6.9 earthquake — and its aftershocks — along the border of India and Nepal climbed to 21 Monday, officials said.

Dengue fever has killed 25 people and affected more than 6,000 over the past two months in Lahore, Pakistan, a health department spokesman said Monday.

Revolutionary forces in Libya suffered a blow after more than 20 fighters were killed in the city of Sirte, the country’s transitional government said Monday. CNN JOURNALIST INJURED | LIBERATION IN THE SOUTH |

Eight people were killed after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the home of a senior police official, Karachi police said.

Eight people were killed after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the home of a senior police official, Karachi police said.

A prominent group of Muslim American and Christian leaders are scheduled to return to Washington Monday, following a six day visit to Iran where top government and clerical officials indicated to them that two American hikers would be released.

Police arrested six men in Birmingham, England overnight in what they called a pre-planned, intelligence-led counter-terror operation, they said Monday.

Pilot error, slight intoxication of the navigator, and a failure of the crew to interact properly caused a plane crash that killed 47 people in June of this year, Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said Monday.