February 20, 2017 Canadian recycling plant workers find more than $100G stashed in TV set Workers at a Canadian recycling plant were stunned last month when they found more than $100,000 sitting in the back of an old television set from the 1980s.
February 19, 2017 Voters in Ecuador choosing between change, continuity Ecuadoreans are choosing Sunday between a candidate who vows to continue President Rafael Correa's populist platform or one of several more conservative contenders who pledge to attack corruption and cut taxes to stimulate the Andean nation's flagging economy.
February 18, 2017 Kelly: Trump is working on a "streamlined" travel ban President Donald Trump is working on a "streamlined" version of his executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations to iron out the difficulties that landed his first order in the courts, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Saturday.
February 18, 2017 Backed by Trump Venezuelans march to demand release of Lopez Hundreds of Venezuelans are marching Saturday to demand the release of activist Leopoldo Lopez on the third anniversary of the opposition leader's arrest.
February 18, 2017 Russia seeks pragmatic US ties and "post-West" world order Russia's foreign minister says that Moscow wants "pragmatic relations" with the United States but also is voicing its desire for a "post-West world order." Sergey Lavrov addressed the Munich Security Conference hours after Vice President Mike Pence told the gathering Saturday that the U.S. will "hold Russia accountable" even as the new administration searches for common ground with Moscow.
February 18, 2017 US-backed Syrian fighters inch closer to IS 'capital' U.S.-backed fighters have captured a village in northern Syria from members of the Islamic State group, bringing them closer to cutting a road linking two major cities in the country and closing in on the extremists' de facto capital.
February 18, 2017 Bus flips over in Argentina's Andes, at least 19 killed Police say a passenger bus has flipped over on an Andean highway in Argentina, killing 19 of the 43 people aboard.
February 18, 2017 Trump's sons Eric and Donald Jr. in Dubai to open golf club Two of U.S. President Donald Trump's sons are in the United Arab Emirates for an invitation-only ceremony to open the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai.
February 18, 2017 NHL Turns 100: Borje Salming hailed as European trail blazer Exceptionally fit and muscular still, Borje Salming sits at his locker with a familiar No.
February 18, 2017 680 Cubans returned home since end of 'wet foot, dry foot' About 680 Cubans have been returned to the island from various countries since then-President Barack Obama ended a longstanding immigration policy that allowed any Cuban who made it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident, state television reported Friday.