Several boats carrying as many as 150 people are believed to have capsized near the western coast of Myanmar as local residents scrambled to avoid a storm that’s approaching the area, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.
A Mayan pyramid that has stood for 2,300 years in Belize has been reduced to rubble.
H&M, along with other companies, on Monday agreed to support a new plan to prevent fires and building collapses in Bangladesh apparel factories.
As of Monday, 1,127 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage where a nine-story building once stood.
Tribal militants in Yemen kidnapped a worker for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday, three security officials told CNN.
The newly diagnosed person is under isolation at the University Hospital of Lille, the ministry said.
Manyang Reath escaped war and famine in Sudan and now he is flourishing in central Virginia as a student and advocate of social issues.
Pope Francis canonized the first saints of his papacy — including the first ever honored from Colombia and Mexico — at a Mass on Sunday at St. Peter’s Square, according to the Vatican website.
A woman has been pulled out alive from a collapsed garment manufacturing building in Bangladesh with only minor injuries.
Three fake nuns accused of hiding cocaine in their habits have been arrested in Colombia.
Four Americans were killed in the Benghazi terrorist attack, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Syria is believed to be the main conduit for arms from Iran to Hezbollah
