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 Los propietarios de un barco de crucero que encalló y se hundió cerca de una isla italiana, matando al menos a seis personas, culpó a un error humano por su comandante, dijo el lunes que hizo un "no aprobado, la maniobra no autorizada" para desviar de su curso programado.  Terror attacks across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect killed at least 39 people, with the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic church after celebrating Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a massive explosion.
Continue reading Christmas Attacks in Nigeria by Sect Kill 39.
Continue reading Pope says he will visit Cuba, Mexico before Easter .
 Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his negotiating team took off for Washington on Tuesday morning, ahead of the relaunch of peace talks with the Palestinians.
Continue reading Netanyahu and Israeli Negotiating Team Head to U.S. for Peace Talks.
 Pictured: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (right) with his third son and heir-apparent Kim Jong-un Photo: EPA South Korea welcomes additional sanctions the United States will impose on North Korea. They are part of the international effort to restrain the North's illegal nuclear weapons development and other illicit activities.
Continue reading South Korea Welcomes Fresh U.S. Sanctions on Pyongyang.
 Flooding killed four people and forced the evacuation of 94,000 others in the northern Chinese port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks, state media said Sunday.
Continue reading Severe Flooding Hits Northeast China; 94,000 Evacuated In Flood .
 Wyclef Jean after Haiti's Electoral Council rejected his candidacy in Port-au-Prince on Friday. The streets of Haiti remained calm on Saturday, a day after the country's election officials ended the singer Wyclef Jean's brief, electrifying run for president, suggesting that the distraction of politics had once again given way to the country's struggle for survival.
Continue reading Haiti Calm After Wyclef Jean Is Rejected .
 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that the government has managed to overcome the wildfire crisis and has valuable lessons to learn from the experience.
Continue reading Medvedev: Russia Has Overcome Wildfire Crisis.
 A Boeing 737 from Bogota crashed on landing and broke into three pieces on a Colombian island in the Caribbean on Monday. A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm on Monday and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island.
Continue reading All But One Survive 'Miracle' Jet Crash On Caribbean Island Runway .
 India's leader has used part of his Independence Day address to call for an end to violence in Kashmir.
Continue reading Indian Prime Minister Appeals for Calm in Kashmir.
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 Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard staked her party's re-election bid on the economy's resilience, promising on Monday more jobs and less tax on business if she wins the tightest vote in nearly 50 years.
Continue reading Australia Prime Minister Pins Election Hopes on Economy.
 Pictured: UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon meets young flood victims at a relief camp in Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province, Pakistan. Photograph: STR/Pakistan/Reuters Pakistan warned today of a fresh flood wave making its way south along the Indus River and more heavy monsoon rains, threatening to add to the 20 million people who have lost homes, farms and livelihoods.
Continue reading Pakistan Warns of Fresh Floods in 'Heart-Wrenching' Disaster .
 The musician Wyclef Jean at a New York benefit in January for Haitian earthquake relief. Music, not politics, made Wyclef Jean a household name in Haiti and a multimillion-record-selling international star who has always proclaimed his Haitian origins. That was before he announced that he would run for president of Haiti.
Continue reading Wyclef Jean: From Musical Unity to the Political Kind .
 Volunteers and emergency services members worked last week near Plotava, east of Moscow. The flames, bright orange and menacing, advanced steadily through a field of dried-out reeds, sending up coils of smoke and heading in the general direction of a village that, with its log homes, picket fences and gigantic haystacks, seemed to have been laid out by an arsonist.
Continue reading Russian Response to Fire Does Little to Calm Anger .
 The medical team included Karen Woo of Britain and Tom Little of the United States. Tom Little raised three daughters with his wife in Afghanistan, avoided kidnappings during the Russian occupation, hid in his basement for months during the Taliban rule in the 1990s, survived rocket attacks and endured arrests for one reason, friends and family members said: to provide eye care for indigent Afghans.
 Pictured: Dr Waseem Quereshi said his staff had treated 57 young men mainly in their teens in the last week Photo: REX  Pictured: People gather at the scene of deadly explosions that tore through a market in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. (Nabil al-Jurani/Associated Press)
Continue reading U.S. Official says Extremist Groups are 'Very Much Alive' in Iraq.
Continue reading Rescue Workers Scramble to Save Hundreds Buried in Chinese Landslide.
 Cuba's Fidel Castro took part in his first government function since he nearly died in 2006, repeating his apocalyptic warnings of a nuclear war that only President Barack Obama can avert as he spoke Saturday to a formal session of parliament.
Continue reading Castro Warns of Nuclear War; Says Obama is the Only One Who Can Stop It .
Continue reading Prince Charles says he was Put on Earth to Save the World .
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