
Brazil officials reverse subway, bus fare hike
Leaders in Brazil's two biggest cities said Wednesday that they reversed an increase in bus and subway fares that ignited anti-government protests ...

Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to ...

Cuban dissident: Repression forced family to flee
One of several Cuban dissidents recently allowed to visit Europe and the U.S. after Cuba changed its travel laws said Tuesday she decided to seek ...
US man charged with tossing wife off cruise ship
A grand jury has indicted a U.S. man on charges he strangled his ex-wife and tossed her off a cruise ship in Italy. The Orange County Register says ...

Protesters back in streets of Brazilian cities
More than 100,000 people took to the streets in largely peaceful protests in at least eight cities Monday, demonstrations that voiced the deep ...

Pope blesses hundreds of Harley-Davidsons
Biker culture came to the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders celebrating the manufacturer's ...
Tourist boat sinks in Liverpool, no deaths
British authorities say that a tourist boat with 31 people on board sank in Liverpool, but there were no fatalities. The ambulance service said ...
Fire on Greek ferry in eastern Aegean Sea
Crew members put out a fire on a Greek ferry boat carrying 248 passengers and crew in the eastern Aegean Sea Friday. Five people had to be evacuated ...

New bridge opens between Bulgaria and Romania
A new bridge linking Bulgaria and Romania across the Danube River was opened Friday with hopes that it will spur growth in one of Europe's poorest ...
2 die as Philippine ferry sinks, but 54 rescued
Two people died early Friday after their ferry sank in Philippine waters, but 54 passengers and crew were saved when rescuers pulled them to safety.
Rescue on as Philippine ferry sinks with 60 aboard
Ships and helicopters were scouring seas in the central Philippines for survivors of a ferry that sank early Friday with about 60 people aboard.

Argentine train wreck kills 3, injures hundreds
A speeding commuter train slammed into another that had stopped between stations during the morning commute Thursday in suburban Buenos Aires, killing ...

UN says nearly 93,000 killed in Syrian civil war
Syrians are being killed at an average rate of 5,000 per month, the U.N. said Thursday as it raised the overall death toll in the civil war to nearly ...

France hit by train strike after airport action
After two days of air traffic controller strikes, French rail workers walked off the job Thursday to protest a reorganization of the national rail and ...

Chinese doubt police explanation of fatal bus fire
Soon after a fire on a crowded commuter bus killed 47 people and injured 34, Chinese authorities offered an explanation: One of the dead had written ...

Strike over EU plan disrupts European flights
A strike by air traffic controllers forced cancellations of more than 60 percent of flights around France and disrupted travel elsewhere in Europe on ...

EU nations battle over air traffic control plans
A massive battle is taking place in the skies over Europe — and airplane passengers across the continent are feeling its effects. A plan to simplify ...
News Summary: Civilian planes shot down by MANPADS
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is now thought to possess the SA-7, a surface-to-air missile in the category of MANPADS, or man-portable air-defense ...

French strike leads protest of EU air travel plan
Air traffic controllers in France kicked off a series of strikes against a European plan to overhaul their industry, forcing the country's main ...

Afghan Taliban boldly attack on Kabul airport
Seven Taliban fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns launched a rare assault on NATO's operational headquarters at the military ...
France warns of mass disruption in airport strikes
France's main airports are asking airlines to cut their flight timetables in half ahead of three days of strikes by air traffic controllers that begin ...

40 Danes injured in bus crash in Munich
German police say a double decker bus carrying dozens of Danish students slammed into a small railway bridge in Munich and tore off part of the upper ...