Fashion risk-takers helped the red carpet at Sunday’s Golden Globes live up to its reputation as the liveliest of the awards season, with Helena Bonham Carter leading the way in mismatched — one red, one green — shoes.
An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country’s northwest and broke into several pieces, killing 71 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries.
A band of frigid weather snaking its way up the East Coast on Sunday threatened to bring blizzards and at least 30 centimetres of snow to New York City and New England, while several states to the South made emergency declarations as the storm caused crashes on slick roads.
Several thousand people rallied Sunday in Moscow to protest the ethnic clashes that have rocked Russia, holding posters reading “Fascists disgrace Russia” and chanting “No to Fascism!”
The use of full-body scanners and invasive pat-downs at airports around the country will not change for the “foreseeable future,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Sunday.
Thousands of opposition supporters in Belarus tried to storm the main government building to protest what they claim was large-scale vote-rigging in Sunday’s presidential election, but they were driven back and beaten by riot police.
International mediators tried to intervene Sunday in Ivory Coast’s growing political crisis after both candidates in the disputed election said they were now president, raising fears the country could again be divided in two.
The morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Yeoman 2nd Class Durrell Conner was wrapping Christmas presents aboard the USS California when he heard a commotion. Peering through a porthole of the battleship, the 23-year-old saw an airplane approaching low.
Hundreds of thousands of State Department documents leaked Sunday revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging candid comments from world leaders and detailing occasional U.S. pressure tactics aimed at hot spots in Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea.
Wild tigers could become extinct in 12 years if countries where they still roam fail to take quick action to protect their habitats and step up the fight against poaching, global wildlife experts told a “tiger summit” Sunday.
One by one the bodies of dozens killed by Indonesia’s most volatile volcano — some too charred to ever be identified — were placed into a mass grave Sunday, as people terrified that another eruption was coming fled the city at the foot of Mount Merapi.
The toxic red sludge that burst out of a Hungarian factory’s reservoir reached the mighty Danube on Thursday after wreaking havoc on smaller rivers and creeks, and downstream nations rushed to test their waters.
The Canadian and U.S. governments have warned their citizens living or travelling in Europe to be aware of potential terrorist threats, but tourism officials worried that it could deter would-be visitors from moving ahead with plans to cross the Atlantic.
Nigeria’s federal police force named two men Sunday night as the “masterminds” behind the bombings that struck the West African nation’s capital during its independence celebrations.
