MOSCOW (AP) — Investigators say a 23-year-old Russian man was brutally beaten and left to die by his companions after drunkenly telling them he was gay.
A former schoolmate of the victim and another man have been arrested for the killing, which happened on Friday.
The RIA Novosti news agency on Monday quoted an investigator in the southern city of Volgograd saying that one suspect admitted that he and another suspect decided to haze the victim by...
ROME (AP) — The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects.
The Food and Agriculture Organization on Monday hailed the likes of grasshoppers, ants and other members of the insect world as an underutilized food for people, livestock and pets.
A 200-page report, released at a news conference at the U.N. agency's Rome headquarters, says 2 billion...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni official says a military plane on a training exercise has crashed into a neighborhood in the country's capital.
The military official says the plane went down Monday in a southern district of Sanaa. There was no immediate word on casualties.
He says military experts are investigating.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity according to the rules.
In February, a military...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni official says a military plane on a training exercise has crashed into a neighborhood in the country's capital.
The military official says the plane went down Monday in a southern district of Sanaa. There was no immediate word on casualties.
He says military experts are investigating.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity according to the rules.
In February, a military...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni military plane on a training exercise exploded in midair over the country's capital on Monday, killing the pilot and slamming into a residential neighborhood, according to an army official.
Fragments of the plane hit buildings on the ground in Sanaa and set small fires in four houses. Three people were slightly injured, according to the official.
The plane was a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-22 fighter. Military experts were...
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel has shrugged aside a new book that suggests she may have been closer to East Germany's communist system than previously thought, saying she's never hidden anything.
The 58-year-old Merkel grew up in East Germany and entered politics as communism crumbled in 1989.
It has long been known that, like many people, she joined the communist youth organization, and she has said in the past that "politically I lived an...
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria's center-right party has fallen far short of winning a majority needed to form a government, according to nearly final election results released on Monday, and it appears to have no willing partners to join a coalition.
That would leave the second-place party in position to lead a new government.
The Citizens for Bulgaria's European Development party of former Prime Minister Boiko Borisov amassed the most votes with 30...
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Several of the biggest Western retailers embraced a plan that would require them to pay for factory improvements in Bangladesh as the three-week search for victims of the worst garment-industry disaster in history ended Monday with the death toll at a staggering 1,127.
Bangladesh's government also agreed to allow garment workers to form unions without permission from factory owners. That decision came a day after it announced a plan to raise the...
MILAN (AP) — Milan prosecutors on Monday demanded a prison sentence of six years and a lifetime ban from public office for former Premier Silvio Berlusconi in his sex-for-hire trial.
The request came days after an appeals court upheld a four-year sentence and five-year ban on public office in a tax fraud case against Berlusconi. The two cases, coming to a head at a delicate moment for Italy, raise questions about his political future.
Berlusconi, who...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — About 200 Taiwanese protested outside the Philippine representative office in Taipei on Monday against the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard in disputed waters.
Burning Philippine flags and waving banners with messages such as "You can't kill our people, you can't insult our country," the demonstrators demanded that Manila apologize for the incident last Thursday in the Bashi Strait in which Philippine coast guard...
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