August 12, 2016 Mexican authorities investigate reports of tiger sighting Reports of an escaped tiger have put Mexican authorities on alert nine months after another Bengal tiger fled into a mangrove forest and disappeared.
August 11, 2016 Human remains found in Hawaii could be woman who vanished 15 years ago Police on Hawaii's Big Island are trying to identify human remains that were found near personal items belonging to a Canadian woman who has been missing for about 15 years.
August 11, 2016 Brazil arrests 2 suspects on terrorism-related charges Police in Brazil have arrested two alleged Islamic State sympathizers in the second phase of raids that earlier led to the detention of 12 people days before the Olympic Games started in Rio de Janeiro.
August 11, 2016 Video of late Toronto mayor smoking crack now public A notorious video featuring late Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine has been made public.
August 11, 2016 St Vincent lawmakers weigh legislation on online defamation Legislators in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are scheduled to consider a cybercrime bill Thursday that would allow prison sentences of up to two years for online defamation.
August 11, 2016 Amid Haiti cholera epidemic, UN peacekeepers spill sewage and ignore water treatment, says internal report While the United Nations touted its efforts in Haiti aimed at ending the world’s worst modern cholera epidemic -- a calamity many experts assert the U.N. itself caused -- U.N. peacekeepers were blatantly violating their own sanitary rules for containing the disease, according to an internal U.N. report that was suppressed for months.
August 11, 2016 Report: US-based Turkish navy officer 'missing' after coup Turkey's state-run news agency says a Turkish naval officer working in the United States has gone missing and has failed to report back home following a failed coup by renegade officers within the Turkish military.
August 11, 2016 Drawn-out battle for IS-held Syrian town offers lessons As U.S.-backed forces close in on the Islamic State group in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, the extremists have used hundreds of residents as human shields, laying mines and shooting those trying to flee the town near the Turkish border.
August 11, 2016 Canada terror suspect prepared martyrdom video before he was killed A Canadian man previously banned from associating with Islamic State extremists prepared a martyrdom video and was about to commit a terrorist attack but was killed after he detonated his explosive device in a taxi and was shot at by officers who say they thwarted the suicide bomb plot after being tipped off by the FBI, police said Thursday.
August 11, 2016 DNA law leads to retrial for 3 in 1988 Puerto Rico killing The witness said he was sure: He'd driven three men to the beach and watched them sexually attack and kill a 21-year-old pharmacy student.