Chavez seeks decree powers for 1 year
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has asked congress to grant him special power to enact laws by decree for a year.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has asked congress to grant him special power to enact laws by decree for a year.
Chilean officials say a prison fire set off during a riot killed at least 83 inmates today.
Colombia's President is asking nearly 500 people to abandon homes on the vulnerable hillside of a poor Medellin suburb where a landslide killed dozens as it buried about 30 homes.
A French disease expert says there is strong evidence linking U.N. peacekeepers to a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 2,000 people.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman says consular officials met with a 14-year-old boy accused of being a drug cartel assassin but that his citizenship has not been determined.
Gen. David Petraeus has told the White House that the President's troop surge has improved security but a stubborn Taliban insurgency remains strong in some areas, a senior military official says.
London Police have arrested Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange on a Swedish warrant.
Haitian officials say more than 2,000 people have died of cholera since late October.
Israeli police say they have arrested the “prime suspect” in the nation's worst wildfire - a 14-year-old boy who says the blaze was an accident.
Egypt's Chamber of Diving and Watersports says three shark experts from the U.S. are heading to Egypt to help try to explain what's behind an unusual series of shark attacks that have killed one tourist and injured three others over the past week.
The Swiss Postal System has pulled the plug on wikileaks' bank account in another serious setback for the secret-spilling website that is fighting to stay online.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says he has opened an investigation into possible war crimes by North Korea.
Friends and colleagues of famed balloonists Richard Abruzzo of Albequerque and Carol Rymer Davis of Denver are remembering them anew.
A Mexican state governor says a 14-year-old suspected of working as a killer for drug gangs is a U.S. citizen.
Interpol has placed the Australian-born founder of wikileaks on its most-wanted list after Sweden issued an arrest warrant against him as part of a drawn-out rape investigation.
Austrian authorities say an 83-year-old murderer has been caught in Poland after she disappeared from her apartment.
A Moroccan bus fell into a river in heavy rains Tuesday, killing 24 people, the north African nation's official news agency said.
A Rome hospital says Oscar-nominated Director Mario Monicelli has died after jumping from a fifth-story hospital window.
Iran's president has confirmed for the first time that a computer worm affected centrifuges in the country's uranium enrichment program.
Rescuers have drilled through to the main tunnel at the New Zealand coal mine where 29 miners were caught in a methane-fueled explosion last week. They have not been heard from since.
Prince William and Kate Middleton will marry April 29 in Westminster Abbey, the historic London church where Princess Diana's funeral was held.
South Korea's President says Seoul will unleash an "enormous retaliation" should North Korea attack again.
The U.N. Nuclear Agency says Iran temporarily stopped enriching uranium earlier this month for unspecified reasons.
Rescue crews are waiting outside a large coal mine in New Zealand for a go-ahead to start searching for 29 men missing after a powerful gas explosion.
Pakistani intelligence officials say suspected U.S. missiles have killed four alleged militants as they were driving in a vehicle near the Afghan border.
