At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster area in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local efforts in Moore after the deadliest U.S. tornado since one ...

Israeli troops shot at a target across the Syrian frontier on Tuesday in response to gunfire that struck its forces in the Golan Heights, the Israeli military said. A statement said a military vehicle was damaged by shots fired from Syria but that there were no injuries. It said that soldiers "returned precise fire". Gunfire incidents across the frontier from Syria have recurred in past months during an esc ...

North Korea fired two short-range missiles on Monday, making six launches in three days, and it condemned South Korea for criticizing what it said were its legitimate military drills. South Korea's Defense Ministry said North Korea had fired one missile on Monday morning and a second one in the afternoon. Both were fired into the sea off North Korea's east coast, a ministry official said. The launches come ...

At least one person has been confirmed dead following a collision between two hot-air balloons in Turkey. The country's semi-official Anadolu news agency reported that the two hot air balloons collided mid-air in central Turkey early Monday morning. The crash happened in the tourist region of Cappadocia, Anadolu said. At least 18 people were injured.   ...

Argentina's first military dictator, Jorge Rafael Videla, has died today at the age of 87. The Argentine military dictator, who according to report killed thousands of dissidents from 1976 to 1983 died of natural causes while serving a sentence for human rights crimes. Unrepentant till death concerning the kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, Videla accompanied by Emilio Massera and Orlando Agosti, ...

More than $1 million worth of jewels due to be lent to movie stars at the Cannes film festival were stolen from a hotel room in the French Riviera town. Thieves ripped the safe out of the wall of the Novotel hotel room overnight where an employee of Chopard, a luxury jeweller, was lodged. The jewels were loaned to celebrities in Cannes for the world famous annual film festival which opened on Wednesday. The ...

Six-two people were injured after a light rail transit train derailed in Hong Kong on Friday. The accident happened while the train was making a turn, causing it to jump off the tracks, according to local media reports. Emergency crews carrying injured passengers off the train, some on stretchers, and treating people on the scene were seen. An eyewitness said after the crash the train flipped onto its side ...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos hinted that he will be vying for the first citizen's position come 2014, citing continuity of his policies and bringing to conclusion peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels as reasons. Though the Colombian President did not explicitly announce his candidacy< Mr. Santos also informed that Colombian housing minister German Vargas Lleras, who led the free housing program ...

Myanmar's government has freed 23 political prisoners, a senior interior ministry official said on Friday, the day President Thein Sein was due to leave for a landmark visit to the United States. The official declined to be identified and would not provide the names of those released or give further details. A member of the 88 Generation Open Society, a pro-democracy activist group, said 10 prisoners had be ...

A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, Afghan and foreign officials said, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months. Forty people were wounded in the blast at around 8 a.m. (0330 GMT) during the morning rush-hour. The Hezb-e-Islami insurgent group, which is allied with the Taliban, claimed resp ...