Uruguayan firefighters say they have found the bodies of two people who died when a South Korean fishing vessel caught fire. Fire department spokesman Leandro Palomeque says the bodies were found near the machine room of the Jung Woo 3. The vessel caught fire Saturday morning and firefighters w

VIENNA (AFP) ― The U.N. atomic agency’s board will be looking for a way out of its impasse with Iran after two fruitless visits probing Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons drive, in a meeting starting Monday.In a report sent to International Atomic Energy Agency member states on Feb. 24, watchdog chief Yukiya Amano said that after the two trips, on Jan. 29-31 and Feb. 20-21, “major differences” with Tehran remained.The Islamic republic denied access to the Parchin military site near Tehran where

An aging giraffe at Indonesia's largest zoo has died with a large lump of plastic found in his stomach, causing concern among zoo officials.Anthan Warsito, the spokesman for the Surabaya Zoo in East Java's capital, says the 30-year-old giraffe _ named ``Kliwon'' _ was sick for several days before dy

TOKYO (AFP) -- A year on from one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history, Japanese scientists are warning anew that Tokyo could soon be hit by a quake that will kill thousands and cause untold damage.Greater Tokyo, home to 35 million tightly packed people, has seen a three-fold increase in tectonic activity since the magnitude 9.0 undersea quake that unleashed a killer tsunami last March.Every day, an average of nearly 1.5 quakes are recorded in and around the city, one of the most popul

Human sperm would have equal protection under the law under a resolution passed by the Wilmington, Del., City Council last week, its sponsor said.The resolution would confer the "rights of personhood" on every human sperm and would forbid men from destroying their semen, the Philadelphia Inquirer re

Once deeply vulnerable, President Barack Obama has seen his fortunes take a dramatic turn for the better as the Republican Party splits between its historic business-friendly establishment and the powerful tug of more conservative and social issues voters.Burdened throughout his term by the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, Obama was expected to be hard pressed to hold on the White House in November.But eight months before Election Day, things have changed. T

Homes and buildings collapsed in the Congolese capital after an arms depot exploded Sunday, killing at least 206 people and entombing countless others in crushed structures including inside two churches that buckled while parishioners were celebrating Mass, officials and witnesses said. The shock wa

MOSCOW (AFP) -- Using Twitter and other social networks, some of the tens of thousands of volunteers monitoring Russia's polls Sunday posted evidence of alleged violations on the Internet and cast doubt on the legitimacy of the vote.Election officials denied any significant fraud in the preside

TEHRAN (Reuters) -- Loyalists of Iran's paramount clerical leader have won over 75 percent of seats inparliamentary elections, a near-complete count showed, largely reducing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a lame duck in a contest between conservative hardline factions.The outcome of Friday's

SZCZEKOCINY, Poland (AFP) -- Rescue workers Sunday combed the wreckage of a head-on train crash in southern Poland as the death toll climbed to 16, with scores wounded in the country's worst rail disaster since 1990."People from across Poland and citizens from other countries suffered in the ca

DUBLIN (AP) -- Somewhere in Ireland, a burglar has the heart of a saint.Officials at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin say they're distraught and perplexed over the theft of the church's most precious relic: the preserved heart of St. Laurence O'Toole.O'Toole was Dublin's archbishop from 1162 t

Libyan Islamists and independents on Saturday formed a new political party, electing as its leader a Muslim Brotherhood member who was a political prisoner under the regime of dead dictator Moammer Gadhafi.Mohammed Sawan, jailed for eight years under the ousted regime of Gadhafi who had outlawed political parties as an act of treason, was elected Justice and Construction party leader after a three-day conference in the capital.“I have real mixed feelings because I was imprisoned under Gadhafi fo