Archive By Section - World
HOLLIS, Maine - A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes - and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor.
February 03, 2012
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By CLARKE CANFIELD
Associated Press
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World
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his lair to "see" his shadow on Thursday, in the process predicting six more weeks of winter.
February 02, 2012
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Associated Press
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World
NEW YORK - Facebook, the social network that changed "friend" from a noun to a verb, is expected to file as early as Wednesday to sell stock on the open market. Its debut is likely to be the most talked-about initial public offering since Google in 2004.
February 01, 2012
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By PALLAVI GOGOI
AP Business Writer
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World
KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii - A Hawaii-based Marine lance corporal will spend 30 days in jail and have his rank reduced to private first class for punching and kicking a fellow Marine who killed himself shortly afterward, a judge ruled late Monday, saying she found no evidence the abuse led to the suicide.
January 31, 2012
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By AUDREY McAVOY
Associated Press
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World
ROME - Costa Crociere SpA offered uninjured passengers €11,000 ($14,460) apiece Friday to compensate them for lost baggage and the psychological trauma they suffered after their cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany.
January 27, 2012
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By NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
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World
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The mayor of a working-class city roiled by allegations of police discrimination against Hispanics faced scathing criticism Wednesday from officials including the governor for saying he "might have tacos" as a way to do something for the community.
January 26, 2012
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By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
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World
WASHINGTON - Global warming is hitting not just home, but garden. The color-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets is being updated by the government, illustrating a hotter 21st century.
January 25, 2012
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
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World
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The same U.S. Navy SEAL unit that killed Osama bin Laden parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage. Soon, nine kidnappers were dead and both hostages were freed.
January 25, 2012
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By ABDI GULED, KATHARINE HOURELD and KIMBERLY DOZIER
Associated Press
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World
BOSTON - President John F. Kennedy's library is releasing 45 hours of privately recorded meetings and phone calls, providing a window into the final months of his life.
January 24, 2012
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By BRIDGET MURPHY
Associated Press
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World
ST. LOUIS - A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients who require millions of dollars in advanced treatment - a burden so costly that it's contributing to the closure of some burn units.
January 23, 2012
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By JIM SALTER
Associated Press
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World
RENO, Nev. - An elderly man discarding fireplace ashes accidentally touched off the brush fire that raged south of Reno, destroying 29 homes and forcing thousands of people to flee the flames, authorities said.
January 21, 2012
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By MARTIN GRIFFITH and SCOTT SONNER
Associated Press
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World
SEATTLE - A powerful Pacific Northwest storm knocked out power to about 250,000 electric customers around Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia after it coated much of Washington in ice and swelled Oregon rivers, killing a child and two adults. Besides the outages, the big concern now is more flooding in both states with warmer temperatures and rain.
January 20, 2012
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By JONATHAN J. COOPER and MANUEL VALDES
Associated Press
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World
STOCKHOLM - Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should be last to leave a sinking ship. But is it realistic to expect skippers - only human, after all - to suppress their survival instinct amid the horror of a maritime disaster? To ask them to stare down death from the bridge, as the lights go out and the water rises, until everyone else has made it to safety?
January 19, 2012
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By KARL RITTER
Associated Press
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World
WASHINGTON - Hoping to win the hearts of Southern conservatives, Newt Gingrich leaned into his argument that President Barack Obama is a "food stamp president" and that poor people should want paychecks, not handouts - a pitch that earned him a standing ovation in South Carolina during a presidential debate on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
January 18, 2012
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By JESSE J. HOLLAND
Associated Press
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World
CHICAGO - America's obesity epidemic is proving to be as stubborn as those maddening love handles, and it shows no sign of reversing course.
January 18, 2012
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By LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer
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World
