At least 36 people died in a fiery collision between a methanol tanker and a double-decker sleeper bus on Sunday in China's worst traffic accident in more than a year.   Both vehicles caught fire and only three of the 39 people onboard the bus survived the motorway crash, which occurred around 2:00 am, Xinhua news agency reported.   A total of 36 bodies were pulled from the debris and three peopl

A 30-year-old Canadian woman died after she fell into a river near Montreal while posing for wedding photos, officials said.The woman, whose name was not reported, was standing in six to 12 inches of water in the Ouareau River while a photographer was taking her picture, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday.Ronald McGinnis, spokesman for the Quebec provincial police, said the woman's dr

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican federal police fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle and wounded two U.S. government employees Friday after their vehicle drove into a rural, mountainous area outside the capital where the officers were looking for criminals, Mexican and U.S. officials said.The two embassy employees were hospitalized, one with a leg wound and the other hit in the stomach and hand, according t

VIENNA (AP) -- Iran has shrouded a building that the U.N. nuclear agency suspects was used for secret work on atomic weapons, meaning spy satellites can no longer monitor Tehran's alleged efforts to clean up the site, diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday.For months, satellite images have recorded what the International Atomic Energy Agency suspects is an attempt to sanitize the site. At t

NEW YORK (AP) -- A laid-off clothing designer fatally shot an executive at his former company outside the Empire State Building on Friday, setting off a chaotic showdown with police in front of one of the world's best-known landmarks. Officers killed the gunman and at least nine others suffered minor wounds, likely all of them by stray police gunfire, authorities said.The gunshots rang out on the

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― U.S, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Egypt to keep open communication with Israel after the new Cairo government deployed forces to the Sinai Peninsula, the State Department said Thursday.Clinton on Wednesday spoke by telephone to Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr as unease grew in Israel over President Mohamed Morsi’s deployment of troops in the Sinai, which was demilitarized under a 1979 peace treaty.“This call was in keeping with a series of contacts that

TRIPOLI (AFP) ― Residents of an unrest-hit area of the north Lebanese city of Tripoli returned to their neighborhoods Thursday to inspect the damage, after four days of sectarian fighting killed 10.Taking advantage of a tenuous ceasefire, several families displaced by the fighting returned to the districts of Bab al-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, where deadly clashes between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime erupted on Monday, an AFP correspondent said.Earlier in the day renewed fighting

Iran in diplomatic spotlight as it hosts global summitThe U.N. nuclear agency is forming a special Iran team, drawing together sleuths in weapons technology, intelligence analysis, radiation and other fields of expertise as it seeks to add muscle to a probe of suspicions that Tehran worked secretly on atomic arms, diplomats tell the Associated Press.Creating a unit focused on only one country is an unusual move for the International Atomic Energy Agency, reflecting the priority the U.N. nuclear