BOSTON/NEW YORK: A blizzard slammed into the northeastern United States on Friday, snarling traffic,  disrupting thousands of flights and prompting five governors to declare states of emergency in the face of a fearsome snowstorm. The storm caused a massive traffic pile-up in southern Maine.

  BOSTON: A blizzard of potentially historic proportions threatened to strike the northeast with a vengeance on Friday, with up to 2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow forecast along the densely populated corridor from the New York City area to Boston and beyond. Halfway through what was looking l

On October 3, 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law “Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008,” a law that made it a federal crime to recruit or use soldiers under the age of 15. The law also gave the United States authority to “prosecute, deport or deny entry to individuals who have knowingly

London:"I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated," Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, has said in a recorded message. The 15-year-old was shot by a Taliban assassin as she took a bus h

Facebook users mock move, saying monkey had mole removed by a doctor in space [caption id="attachment_24819" align="aligncenter" width="475"] This combination of two photos obtained from the Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, shows, left, an Iranian technician holding a monkey that Iran claims r

Major food retailers and suppliers being called for a meeting on Monday London: Britain’s Ministry of Justice says it has suspended a company supplying meat to prisons after tests found that it may have provided food described as halal that contained traces of pork. The ministry said on Friday tha

CAIRO — Egypt’s main opposition group on Saturday backed calls to oust President Mohamed Mursi and demanded he go on trial after deadly clashes left the Islamist leader scrambling to contain fallout from footage of police brutality. The opposition National Salvation Front demanded Mursi be prosec

[caption id="attachment_24757" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Aljazeera - Iran unveils 'domestically-built fighter jet'[/caption] Iran has unveiled its newest combat jet, a domestically manufactured fighter-bomber that military officials claim can evade radar. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sai

Istanbul: A suicide bomber attacked the US Embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Friday, detonating himself inside a security entrance to the compound in a blast that officials said killed a Turkish guard and wounded a visiting Turkish journalist. The State Department immediately warned Ame

London:Urdu has been revealed as the fourth most spoken language in the United Kingdom after English and Polish, according to 2011 census data released by the Office of National Statistics. Polish is now the main language spoken in England and Wales after English and Welsh, followed by the south Asi

[caption id="attachment_23938" align="aligncenter" width="580"] A protester opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi tries to stop riot police from firing tear gas. (Reuters)[/caption] CAIRO: Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi declared a month-long state of emergency in three cities on the Suez Ca

A blaze raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing 232 people as the air filled with deadly smoke and panicked party-goers stampeded toward the exits, police and witnesses said. It appeared to be the world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade. Witne

CAIRO: Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi has appealed for calm after seven people died in clashes between police and protesters on the second anniversary of the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak. As troops were deployed in the flashpoint city of Suez, Mursi, in a message posted on his Twitter accou

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook' billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg is making a foray into politics next month by hosting a fundraiser for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, reports have said. The event, to take place in Zuckerberg's home in the California city of Palo Alto in mid-February, is to suppo

[caption id="attachment_23142" align="alignleft" width="380"] AP[/caption] Seoul: North Korea said on Thursday it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country it called its “enemy”. The an

(CNN) -- A total of 197 million people were without jobs in 2012, with youth being particularly hard hit, and those unemployment figures will increase again this year, according to an International Labor Organization report released Monday. The bulk of the 4 million newly unemployed in 2012 came fr

Barack Hussein Obama renewed his oath of office at midday on Monday, ceremonially marking the beginning of another four years in the White House, calling for "fidelity to our founding principles" while also embracing "new responses to new challenges." Crowds that were expected to reach about

Italy: The controversial row surroundings alleged links between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism is set to be reignited following a court ruling in Italy. Judges in Rimini, north-east Italy awarded the Bocca family Euros 174,000 (£140,000) after the Italian Health Ministry