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Israelis rush to buy guns

[2015-10-16 07:54]

Cars are double- and even triple-parked outside a gun shop in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv. Inside, customers jostle each other as they wait to be served.

149 children rescued in sex trafficking raid

[2015-10-16 07:54]

Law enforcement officials rescued 149 minors from pimps, including one as young as 12, in a nationwide crackdown on human trafficking, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.

Special Ebola beds helped save lives

[2015-10-16 07:54]

The introduction of thousands of Ebola treatment beds prevented an estimated 57,000 Ebola cases and 40,000 deaths in Sierra Leone, a new study has found.

UK denies request for Assange physical

[2015-10-16 07:54]

The United Kingdom government has refused to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange receive medical attention outside Ecuador's London embassy where he has been holed up for more than three years.

Cocaine 'air bridge' to be investigated

[2015-10-16 07:54]

Peru's defense minister announced on Wednesday an investigation into allegations of military corruption in the world's No 1 cocaine-producing valley, after The Associated Press reported that the armed forces turned a blind eye to the ferrying of cocaine abroad by small planes.

Report: 'Dozens of managers' involved in fraud

[2015-10-16 07:54]

Volkswagen's pollution cheating program was developed by dozens of managers, not just a handful of individuals as the company has suggested, news site Spiegel Online reported on Wednesday.

IN BRIEF (Page 12)

[2015-10-16 07:54]

Barack Obama, the United States president, will deploy up to 300 military personnel to Cameroon for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations against militant Boko Haram insurgents, he informed Congress on Wednesday.

Playboy to stop running nude photos

[2015-10-15 07:45]

Teenage boys in the United States for generations got their first look at a naked woman from Playboy, often from a copy swiped from Dad's sock drawer or filched from a newsstand.

Jamaican writer Marlon James wins Booker Prize for fiction

[2015-10-15 07:45]

Marlon James became the first Jamaican winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with a vivid, violent, exuberant and expletive-laden novel based on the attempted assassination of reggae musician Bob Marley.

Hunter survives 6 days in Outback without water

[2015-10-15 07:45]

A 62-year-old recreational hunter lost in a hot and arid region of the Australian Outback survived without water for six days by eating ants, police said on Tuesday.

Israel to seal off E. Jerusalem

[2015-10-15 07:45]

Israel gave police authority to seal off Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem on Wednesday and will deploy soldiers on main roads to combat the worst spate of violence across Israel, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank in years.

US rejects possible cooperation with Russia on curbing IS

[2015-10-15 07:45]

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Tuesday that the United States would not cooperate with Russia in the fight against the extremist Islamic State group.

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