Month: April 2012

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck southern Mexico on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Two children have been killed in an acid attack in Afghanistan’s eastern Ghazni province, the provincial police chief said Saturday.

The war itself lasted for less than three months. But 30 years on, wounds from the Falklands war are fresh, and Britain and Argentina are still at odds over the chilly, windswept island chain in the South Atlantic.

It’s been 11 years since John Meletse, a deaf, gay South African man, first learned he was HIV positive.

It’s been 11 years since John Meletse, a deaf, gay South African man, first learned he was HIV positive.

The United States is offering as much as $10 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, a Pakstani man accused of masterminding the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai that killed 166 people.

The United States is offering as much as $10 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, a Pakstani man accused of masterminding the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai that killed 166 people.

West African countries slapped Mali’s ruling military junta with threatened economic sanctions Monday, saying steps toward restoring democratic rule announced over the weekend weren’t enough.

The French Interior Ministry announced Monday it has deported two Muslims and plans to expel three more in a crackdown after the killing of seven people by a suspected Islamic extremist.