Tornadoes Kills Dozens in Three Different States

Workers searched for survivors on Monday in the rubble left by a wave of tornadoes that ripped through the south-central United States a day earlier, killing at least 18 people in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa.

Arkansas was the hardest hit, with at least 16 people dead. Neighborhoods were torn…

Three Americans Killed at Charity Hospital in Afghanistan

Three Americans were killed on Thursday when a security guard opened fire at a Kabul hospital funded by a U.S. Christian charity, in the latest of a spate of attacks on foreign civilians in Afghanistan.

Attacks on security forces, Afghan civilians and Westerners have been on the rise since…

Nobel Prize Winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Has Died

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian author whose beguiling stories of love and longing brought Latin America to life for millions of readers and put magical realism on the literary map, died on Thursday. He was 87.

A prolific writer who started out as a newspaper reporter, Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece…

Hundreds Dead and Missing After Ferry Sinks

A ferry carrying 459 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, sank off South Korea’s southern coast on Wednesday, leaving nearly 300 people missing despite a frantic, hours-long rescue by dozens of ships and helicopters. At least four people were confirmed dead…

KKK Member Arrested After Killing 3

The suspect in the Passover Eve killings of three people at two Jewish community centers in the Kansas City area was scheduled to appear in court on Monday to face murder charges.

Authorities in Kansas identified the suspect as Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., 73.

Police said it was too early…