(CNN) -- [Breaking news update 6 a.m. ET]. Hospitals in the Indonesian city of Surabaya are being prepared to help house and identify bodies being recovered off the coast of Borneo from a site where Indonesian officials think they've found debris from ...
LIVE: Indonesia confirms missing AirAsia flight crashed - The missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people could be at the bottom of the sea after it was presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, …an official said on Monday, as countries around Asia sent ships and planes to help in the search effort. http://ow.ly/2SGLiu
WASHINGTON - Michael G. Grimm, the Republican Party's lone congressional representative in New York City, announced late Monday night that he would resign effective Jan. 5, two weeks after he pleaded guilty to felony tax evasion.
Report: Michael Grimm Could Resign This Week - (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) Rep. Michael G. Grimm intends to resign from the House after pleading guilty to tax evasion, according to local medi…a reports. The New York Republican’s decision to step down, first reported by the New York Daily News, would be a reversal of his pledge last week to remain in office despite pleading guilty to a felony charge for which he could face time in prison. ...
The U.S. military carried out an airstrike in southern Somalia that targeted a “senior leader” of the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, the Pentagon said.
A Moscow court found opposition leader Alexey Navalny guilty of fraud and money laundering and issued him a suspended sentence as he called on supporters to protest.
LONDON (Reuters) - Brent crude oil fell to a 5-1/2-year low below $57 a barrel on Tuesday as a global supply glut outweighed concerns of lost supply from Libya where battling militias have closed ports.
Heavy gunfire has erupted near the presidential palace in The Gambia's capital, Banjul, reports say. Details are sketchy but some witnesses say soldiers from the presidential guard tried to stage a coup, the Associated Press news agency reports.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia, southern Thailand and parts of the Philippines have been battered by heavy rain and flash floods in recent days, killing dozens, officials said on Tuesday.
Cops on the beat and their bosses believe they are under attack from President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, New York City's police commissioner said Sunday.
Key developments in police-communities tension - Tensions escalated further after two New York City police officers were killed last weekend by a man who suggested in online posts that their slayings …were in retaliation for the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City. The gunman committed suicide. http://ow.ly/2SGmeK
Dec. 1, 2014: Demonstrators rally against the Missouri grand jury's decision to not indict Darren Wilson for his fatal shooting of Michael Brown, in front of a mural of Ezell Ford, on the corner of Broadway and 65th Street in Los Angeles.
A week before the new Congress convenes, the third most powerful man in the GOP is being forced to confront his 2002 address to a David Duke-backed white supremacist group.
Apparently, the latest thing I’m supposed to be outraged by is the revelation that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise spoke to a white supremacist group twelve years ago. Well, I’m not. I really don…’t care. I mean, he’s a Republican from Louisiana. Is this supposed to be surprising? Is it supposed to be shocking? White supremacists are Republican; it doesn’t necessarily follow that Republicans are white supremacists. Not all that long ago, wh...
... * Euro/dollar plumbs lowest level since Aug 2012. * Dollar/yen dips as Tokyo stocks sag, U.S. data awaited (New throughout, changed dateline from TOKYO).
U.S. stocks are closing mostly higher in quiet trading ahead of the New Year's holiday later this week. Several European markets fell as Greece headed for elections that could endanger its bailout program.
The oil price hit a 5-½-year low on Tuesday, in a move likely to wreak yet more economic havoc on countries like Russia and Venezuela - but major oil producer Saudi Arabia looked to be relatively unscathed.
fingerprint-photograph-chaos-computer-club.png In a YouTube video, Jan Krissler of the Chaos Computer Club demonstrates how he faked a fingerprint with just a digital camera and software.
A four-day outage of Google's Gmail service in mainland China appeared to have at least partly ended on Tuesday, but has raised questions about the breadth and scope of China's notorious “Great Firewall”.
Yesterday we talked a bit about Gmail problems in China and the fact that some in the country were blaming the outage on China’s massive firewall known as the Great Firewall. Chinese state media has a…nnounced that the issue with Gmail in the country is…
The next wave of health care technology lets people track many various aspects of their health on their own. Reuters. In 2014, wearable devices became the rage, many collecting data on everything from calories burned to hours slept to blood pressure.
Actress Sofia Vergara is reportedly engaged to actor-director Joe Manganiello. The 'Magic Mike' star is said to have popped the question on Christmas Eve to Vergara, 42, reported E! Online.
Dustin Diamond paid $10,000 bail and was released from jail on Monday. (Photo : Twitter Photo Section). Dustin Diamond, best known as Samuel "Screech" Powers on the TV show "Saved by the Bell" posted $10,000 bail and was released from a Wisconsin ...
And this is when the potential Oscar winners start deflecting criticism from all angles. With Ava DuVernay's acclaimed Selma now the second favourite (behind Boyhood) to win Best Picture at the Oscar, the Academy Award mud-slinging has well and truly ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Last week, Dominic Raiola found himself in trouble with the NFL after he jumped on the leg of Chicago Bears defensive tackle Ego Ferguson.
Although the Wizards (22-8) have already beaten the Los Angeles Clippers in a home game, upending the Houston Rockets on the road Monday to open this five-game trip is more significant.
The year ended with a deluge of big news, reminding us of the risks of spaceflight and the thin margins between success and failure on the final frontier.
View of the Alps From Space Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) took this photograph of the Alps from the International Space Station, and posted i…t to social media on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. She wrote, "I'm biased, but aren't the Alps from space spectacular? What a foggy day on the Po plane, though! #Italy" Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Samantha Cristoforetti
Even more than 1,000 years after their disappearance, it's clear the Mayans had a good thing going. This was a civilization with hieroglypics, mathematics and art.
A healthcare worker who just returned from helping to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been confirmed as Scotland's first case of the disease, officials said Monday.
After tracing the evolution of a flu virus that has plagued poultry farms in China for decades, an international team suggests how the new avian flu virus H7N9 - that has sickened more than 375 people and killed 115 since 2013 - may have come about.
