Mexico bishop inspires, infuriates with activism
The white-haired bishop stepped before some 7,000 faithful gathered in a baseball stadium in this violence-plagued northern border state. He led the ...
Report: Iran plans Hormuz Strait naval maneuvers
Iran is planning naval maneuvers in international waters near strategic Strait of Hormuz, where one-fifth of world oil supply passes, the official ...
Correction: Peru Quake Unreadiness Story
In a story that moved Dec. 9 and 23 about earthquake readiness in Lima, Peru, The Associated Press incorrectly listed the year and the magnitude of ...
Audits of businesses for illegal immigrants rising
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached its highest number yet of companies audited for illegal immigrants on their payrolls this past fiscal ...
Peru's capital highly vulnerable to major quake
The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn't get back up. Minutes later, a 50-foot ...
Click, print, shoot: Downloadable guns possible
Downloading a gun design to your computer, building it with a three-dimensional printer that uses plastics and other materials, and firing it minutes ...
Sierra Leone diamond strike ends after 2 killed
Officials say a deadly strike at a Sierra Leone diamond mine is now over. Two people were killed in the violence at the mine in Koidu in eastern ...
Budding boilo baron peddles Pa. holiday cocktail
A peculiar sort of alchemy takes place each Christmas season in Pennsylvania coal country, where skilled practitioners huddle over big pots of ...
Strike looms at East and Gulf Coast ports
Weeks after a critical West Coast port complex was crippled by a few hundred striking workers, the East Coast is bracing for a possible walkout ...
Essay: Attack a school and you attack America
Pick a public elementary school somewhere in the continental United States and draw a half-mile circle around it. The odds are reasonable that you'll ...
Coal mine collapse and blast kills 8 in Iran
Iran's official news agency says a collapse and explosion in a coal mine has killed eight workers in the country's east. IRNA on Wednesday quoted ...
China is top dam builder, going where others won't
Up a sweeping jungle valley in a remote corner of Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers are raising a 100-meter- (330-foot-) high dam over the ...
APNewsBreak: $1 coin backers give to Harkin center
A South Korean businessman and his Iowa metals company gave $500,000 to a university institute honoring U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, who is pushing for a ...
Zuma win shows his dominance in South Africa's ANC
Under the bright lights, the corruption allegations and the ethical concerns trailing South African President Jacob Zuma faded away and the master ...
Rebels in C. African Republic take 2 more towns
A trio of rebel groups in the Central African Republic pushed ahead and took the central mining town of Bria before first light on Tuesday, the fifth ...
Deciding fate of massacre site can help healing
As Newtown, Conn., grieves the deadly mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, victims' families and residents will eventually have to decide ...
Molten gold signals revival in Calif's Mother Lode
The gold miners who made California famous were the rugged loners trying to shake nuggets loose from streams or hillsides. The ones who made the state ...
Syrian vice president says army can't win
Syria's vice president has acknowledged that the army cannot defeat the rebel forces trying to topple the regime and called for a negotiated ...
Italian worker, 2 others abducted in Syria
Three workers at a Syrian steel plant, including an Italian, have been kidnapped, officials said Monday. Italy's foreign ministry did not say where ...
Zuma asks South Africa's ANC to keep him as leader
South African President Jacob Zuma acknowledged Sunday that corruption and violence have marred the image of the African National Congress under his ...
Conservationists team up with ranchers, loggers
Two cowboys on horses pushed cattle across an expanse of golden hills overgrown with tall grasses and oak trees, up an unpaved road toward another ...
Myanmar gov't apologizes for crackdown violence
Myanmar's government formally apologized Saturday to the country's Buddhist monks for its recent crackdown on protesters at a copper mine that injured ...
SAfrica's ANC party to choose leader amid turmoil
South Africa's governing African National Congress political party will return to where it was first formed to fight apartheid a century ago to pick ...
Some of the deadliest school shootings in the US
A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed more than two dozen people, including children, on Friday. Here is a look at some other recent ...
US manufacturing output rises 1.1 pct. in November
U.S. factories rebounded in November from Superstorm Sandy, boosting production of cars, equipment and appliances. But after factoring out the impact ...
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