World News Center

WWII-devastated Warsaw goes 3-D

July 29, 2010

The sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during the war is vividly reconstructed in a 3-D film that historians and computer graphics experts showed for the first time in the Polish capital on Wednesday.

Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered

July 29, 2010

Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday.

Official: Ukraine church blast kills 1, wounds 8

July 29, 2010

A bomb blast Wednesday at a southern Orthodox church in Ukraine has killed one person and wounded eight, officials said

Bus hits roadside bomb, killing 25 in Afghanistan

July 29, 2010

A packed bus hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 people aboard, as NATO announced another U.S. service member died in a rapidly rising monthly death toll.

Parents mourn 2 boys killed by storm in Haiti camp

July 29, 2010

Distraught parents mourned the loss of two children in a camp for Haitian earthquake survivors Wednesday, a day after rains caused a wall to collapse on top of a row of tarp homes.

Brazil: Murder suspect who hosted TV show dies

July 29, 2010

A former TV crime show host and state legislator accused of commissioning killings to boost ratings has died, a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Canadian man gets 11 years for sex tourism charges

July 29, 2010

A Canadian man who videotaped himself having sex with girls as young as eight in Cambodia and Colombia victimized the children, a judge ruled Wednesday in sentencing him to 11 years in prison.

Spanish region says adios to bullfighting

July 29, 2010

Lawmakers in Spain's Catalonia region outlawed bullfighting Wednesday, becoming Spain's first mainland region to do so after a heated debate that pitted animal rights against tradition.

Four S. Africans to pay fine for racist video

July 29, 2010

Four white South African men reached a deal on Wednesday to pay fines for making a video showing elderly black cleaners being humiliated, including by drinking what was apparently urine-tainted soup.