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Penn State sorority apologizes for racist photo

YoopyaDec 6, 20120

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A Penn State sorority has apologized after a photo of members wearing sombreros and holding offensive signs circulated on the

Tanks outside Mursi’s palace, streets calm

YoopyaDec 6, 20120

(Reuters) – At least four tanks deployed outside the Egyptian presidential palace on Thursday in a street where supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Mursi

Philippines finds elderly survivor after typhoon kills 332

YoopyaDec 6, 20120

(Reuters) – Rescue workers found a 77-year-old man alive on Thursday who had survived on coconuts for two days after a powerful typhoon ravaged the

Ghana poll tests Africa’s “model democracy”

YoopyaDec 6, 2012June 24, 20230

(Reuters) – Ghana’s cliff-hanger presidential election on Friday will test the country’s reputation as a bulwark for democracy and economic growth in Africa’s so-called coup-belt.

Clinton says “desperate” Assad could use chemical arms

YoopyaDec 6, 20120

(Reuters) – Washington fears a “desperate” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could use chemical weapons as rebels bear down on Damascus, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

No military intervention in Mali before September: U.N. peacekeeping chief

YoopyaDec 6, 20120

(Reuters) – International military intervention to oust Islamist militants from northern Mali is almost inevitable, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said on Wednesday, but he said

China’s “board and search” sea rules likely had Beijing’s sign-off: official

YoopyaDec 5, 20120

(Reuters) – New Chinese regulations allowing police to board vessels deemed to be trespassing off the southern island of Hainan were a provincial-level initiative, but

Philippines’ biggest typhoon kills at least 230, hundreds missing

YoopyaDec 5, 20120

(Reuters) – The death toll from the Philippines’ strongest typhoon this year rose on Wednesday to around 230, with hundreds missing in landslides and floodwaters,

Egypt’s Mursi leaves palace as police battle protesters

YoopyaDec 5, 20120

(Reuters) – Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi’s palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building,

Iran says captures U.S. drone in its airspace

YoopyaDec 4, 20120

(Reuters) – Iran captured a U.S. intelligence-gathering drone that entered its airspace over the Gulf, its armed forces said on Tuesday, the latest in a recent succession