The girlfriend of a suspect in the disappearance and death of a New Hampshire college student was arrested on Christmas Eve for giving alleged false alibis. Kathryn McDonough, 19, of Portsmouth is accused of hindering apprehension or prosecution and conspiracy to hinder apprehension or prosecution in the Oct. 9 disappearance of University of New Hampshire student Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, 19, of Chester, Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover, N.H.) reported Wednesday.Bond was set at $35,000, Foster's

A young woman who was gang-raped and assaulted on a moving bus in the Indian capital was flown Thursday to a Singapore hospital for treatment of severe internal injuries that could last several weeks, officials said.The 23-year-old student, who is in critical condition, arrived in Singapore on an air ambulance and was admitted to the Mount Elizabeth hospital, renowned for multi-organ transplant facilities.The hospital said in a statement that she was admitted to the intensive care unit "in an ex

CAIRO (AFP) ― Egypt’s electoral commission confirmed on Tuesday that a controversial, Islamist-backed constitution was passed by 64 percent of voters, rejecting opposition allegations of polling fraud.Those official results tallied with figures given by President Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood immediately after the last round of polling over the weekend in the two-stage referendum. Turnout, however, was barely 33 percent.“There is no loser in this referendum result. This constitution will b

HEHO, Myanmar (AFP) ―Myanmar was on Wednesday probing the cause of an air accident that left two people dead and 11 injured when a passenger jet packed with foreign tourists crash-landed and caught fire.The incident raised fresh questions about the safety standards of Myanmar’s fast-growing but overstretched aviation and tourist industries as foreign visitors flock to the country which is emerging from decades of junta rule.The ageing Fokker 100 jet came down in heavy fog Tuesday in a field shor

TOKYO (AFP) ― Japan’s new premier faces a long to-do list as he takes office Wednesday, including mending ties with Asian neighbors and reviving a limp economy that bedeviled previous governments, analysts say.High on the agenda for Shinzo Abe will be addressing prickly relations with China and South Korea, which greeted his rise to power with alarm after a series of hardline comments on territorial disputes and a conservative position on sensitive issues linked to Japan’s imperialist past.Tokyo

Blind and alone in Alaska winter temperatures that dipped 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-40 degrees Celsius), a lost 8-year-old Fairbanks dog wasn’t given much of a chance to make it home.But after walking 10 miles (16 kilometers) to the edge of a local musher’s dog yard, Abby the brown-and-white mixed breed was found and returned to her owners, a family that includes two boys and one girl under the age of 10.The dog that the family raised from an animal-shelter puppy went missing during a s