A journalist who had been kidnapped over the weekend was found dead on Tuesday in Boca del Rio, a city outside the Mexican gulf port of Veracruz, officials said.

A man opened fire at a casino in Seattle on Sunday, wounding seven people, four of them seriously, police said.

Jamie Sidell, police chief of Auburn town, Washington, said the attack took place insid

Eighteen years after arriving in the US and three years since he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, Filipino journalist Jose Antonio Vargas revealed a long-held secret on Wednesday: he is an illegal immigr

Kidnapped Colombian journalist Mario Esteban Lopez escaped being burned alive by kidnappers because the gasoline they doused him with wetted their matches, he told EFE.

At least 13 people were killed as a new wave of tornadoes hit the US states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, authorities said.

The new bout of deadly weather came after at least 124 people died and

Sotheby's auction house in New York sold eight works by Pablo Picasso for a total of over $50 million, including ‘Femmes lisant (Deux Personnages)’ that fetched $21.36 million.

"The painting has a wa

Storms and tornadoes that hit the southeastern US over the weekend have left at least 47 people dead in six states.

The National Weather Service said the worst was still to come, NBC reported.

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A 28-metre-long bus, said to be the world's biggest, has been put into service in Brazil using biofuel, officials said.

The Mega BRT bus, manufactured by Volvo do Brasil, has a passenger capacity of

Ford has informed the US government that it will recall about 1.19 million F-150 pick-up trucks produced from 2004 through 2006 as well as Lincoln Mark LT 2006 models for a defect that can cause accid

The Ecuadorian government announced Tuesday that US Ambassador Heather Hodges has been declared 'persona non grata' and ordered to leave the country in response to comments in a leaked diplomatic cabl