RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA: An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a tractor-trailer that according to an eyewitness got stuck on the tracks while trying to make a difficult left-hand turn on Monday. One of the train's cars toppled and the conductor and at least 54 others were injured. It was the th

WASHINGTON: A baby in the US state of Utah survived a car crash that killed her mother by dangling upside down in her car seat above a river's frigid waters for 14 hours, police said. A fisherman found the 18-month-old child and woman Saturday in a four-door car flipped over in the Spanish Fork R

SELMA, Alabama: America's racial history "still casts its long shadow upon us," President Barack Obama said as he stood near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in solidarity and remembrance with civil rights activists whose beatings by police a half-century ago galvanized much of the nation against racial opp

WASHINGTON: Director John Brennan has ordered a sweeping reorganization of the CIA, an overhaul designed to make its leaders more accountable and close espionage gaps amid widespread concerns about the US spy agency's limited insights into a series of major global developments. Brennan announced

A video posted on the internet on Wednesday showed Iraqi soldiers shooting to death at close range a captured child suspected to have fought with militants in the Diyala Province. The director of the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, Mustafa Saadoun, in an interview with Al Hadath News Channel,

DONETSK: Seventeen miners were confirmed dead and rescuers held out little hope for another 16 still missing after a blast at a coal mine in the rebel-held city of Donetsk near the battle front in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday. Mine officials said the explosion was most likely caused by gas an

A Turkish Airlines plane carrying 224 passengers had to be evacuated after it skidded off the runway on landing at Kathmandu airport on Wednesday and ended up on grassland. Nepal aviation officials said no one on board was injured, although one witness described how terrified passengers leapt f

LOS ANGELES: US investigators launched dawn raids Tuesday on dozens of Los Angeles locations suspected of offering "maternity tourism" services for mostly Chinese mothers wanting to give birth in the United States. The raids targeted apartment complexes in the Irvine, Rancho Cucamonga, Rowland He

MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Iran rejected on Tuesday as "unacceptable" U.S. President Barack Obama's demand that it freeze sensitive nuclear activities for at least 10 years but said it would continue talks on a deal, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported. Iran laid out the position

SEOUL: North Korea officially reopened its borders on Tuesday to foreign tourists and businessmen nearly five months after shutting them over fear of the deadly Ebola virus, tour agencies and a diplomatic source told Reuters. "We've had it confirmed officially that the border is now open," said T

GENEVA: More than 6,000 people have been killed since violence erupted in Ukraine last April, the UN rights chief said on Monday, decrying a "merciless devastation of civilian lives and infrastructure." "More than 6,000 lives have now been lost in less than a year due to the fighting in eastern U

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama would veto a bill recently introduced in the US Senate allowing Congress to weigh in on any deal the United States and other negotiating countries reach with Iran on its nuclear capabilities, the White House said on Saturday. "The president has been clear that n

A twin car bombing targeting a busy Iraqi market place has killed at least 21 people in a town northeast of Baghdad, according to police sources. Police officials told Al Jazeera the attack took place on Saturday morning when the first bomb exploded near the market in the majority Shia town of Ba

MALE: Supporters of former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed streamed to the tiny capital island Male Friday for a mass protest against his detention on terror charges, which has sparked international condemnation. Organizers said they expected a “big crowd” for the protest, held a day after a cou

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Nigeria's army chief said that Baga town in the country's northeast has been retaken by the military from Islamic extremists, and that displaced residents should be able to return to vote in late March elections. Lt Gen Kenneth Minima spoke to journalists on Wednesday after he

LONDON:  The "Jihadi John" killer who fronted Islamic State beheading videos was unmasked publicly for the first time on Friday by British media which published a photograph showing Mohammed Emwazi as a smiling schoolboy. The black-clad militant brandishing a knife and speaking with an English ac

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Khaleda Zia for failing to attend hearings on graft cases, amid growing political turmoil in the country. Judge Abu Ahmed, from a special anti-corruption court in Dhaka, "issued the warrant against her, cancell

DALLAS: An ice storm that hit wide parts of Texas and neighboring states on Monday knocked out power to thousands of people, led to hundreds of traffic accidents and caused more than 1,300 flight cancellations nationwide. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for large pa