The general secretary of the Antigua Barbuda Workers Union is demanding the immediate resignation of the entire Antigua Port Authority management since, he said, they have failed to adequately address the problems plaguing the port....read more

President Obama arrived here Friday for his third trip to Gulf coast since oil began gushing into the water nearly seven weeks ago, as officials said that a cap placed over the leaking well showed tentative signs of progress....read more

Disgraced financier Allen Stanford, who faces 21 criminal charges and has been through multiple defense lawyers, is requesting that yet another attorney be the one who picks his jury and tries his case....read more

The nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, as oil spews unchecked from BP’s wrecked well, makes this high mountain valley seem even more idyllic than it is. Energy here, from the sun, is free, abundant and clean. For generations of farmers, and the...read more

It was a day of mourning for Turkey on Thursday, as a crowd of several thousand people streamed down a central boulevard here, bearing eight coffins draped in Turkish and Palestinian flags, one of them carrying an American citizen....read more

Only one spectator showed up for the final hearing in the killing of Magomed Yevloyev. He was a broad-beamed, ruddy-faced man in a carefully pressed black suit, and once in the courtroom he removed his tall fur hat, set it on the bench beside ...read more

The Guyana government has condemned Israel for its commando raid on an international flotilla to Gaza resulting in the death of at least 10 people....read more

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it will make US$200 million in grants available to Haiti ...read more

Attorneys representing the fugitive Christopher "Dudus" Coke are expected to wrap up their submissions Friday as they seek to prevent the extradition of their client to the United States where he is wanted on drug trafficking...read more

A senior police officer is to return to court on August 3 on a charge of attempted murder following a traffic incident in April....read more