GIGLIO, Italy — The death toll in a cruise liner accident off Italy’s coast rose to 11 on Tuesday as rescuers blasted holes in the ship’s hull to open up potential escape routes for 24 people still listed as missing.
LONDON — The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that a radical preacher, Abu Qatada, cannot be deported from Britain to be tried in his native Jordan.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Violence surged Tuesday as activists reported at least 30 people killed, including four soldiers who had defected, in several towns and cities across the country.
Erik Boomer and Jon Turk hardly knew each other before they set out in kayaks and circumnavigated Canada’s Ellesmere Island in 104 days, becoming the first to do so.
JERUSALEM — Prosecutors will decide whether to pursue charges against Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
BEIJING — A writer and democracy advocate, Zhu Yufu, became the latest dissident swept up in a crackdown.
TIJUANA, Mexico — Young American citizens, whose families are in Mexico, endure arduous daily journeys to go to school.
WASHINGTON — President Obama must balance choices that could harm the economic recovery or his image.
BEIJING — After avidly following Taiwan’s presidential campaign online, many mainland Chinese expressed the desire to one day soon choose their own leaders.
A British minister suggested that a new yacht would be a fitting gift for Queen Elizabeth II.
JERUSALEM — Unknown attackers disrupted access on Monday to the symbolically strategic Web sites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, the national airline.
LAGOS, Nigeria — The abrupt removal of the fuel subsidy had been seen as one more act of insensitivity by a government the protesters criticized for favoring the wealthy.
YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Before a fourth killing in Orange County, Calif., an Iraq war veteran who was later arrested warned his homeless father to be careful.
The wine panel tasted bottles from the Canary Islands, where visually striking vineyards produce wines that are light and elegant.
MILAN — A soldierly influence was an under-
current in the winter 2012 Milan men’s season that ended Tuesday.
At a time of ever-
expanding bonding of nations and neighbors, the urge to Scottish statehood seems, perhaps, a puzzle.
Ending fuel subsidies gave citizens the message: You don’t matter.
A strategy to slow global warming seeks to avoid demands of sacrifice.
A move to bring proportional representation to Lebanese elections is a bold move against political sectarianism.
To head off medical conflicts of interest, the companies would be required to disclose what they pay doctors.
Geopolitics have helped isolate South America’s northeastern coast.
Inter Milan has shown interest in making a change to its winning side.
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