Day: April 10, 2012

North Korea said the assembly of the satellite and rocket it plans to launch within the next week should be completed Tuesday, setting the stage for a move that has been widely criticized by other nations.

North Korea said the assembly of the satellite and rocket it plans to launch within the next week should be completed Tuesday, setting the stage for a move that has been widely criticized by other nations.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, who designed and unveiled to the world the first Porsche 911, has died in Salzburg, Austria, a spokesman said. He was 76.

Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain is planning to visit Myanmar on Friday, after the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party won dozens of seats at elections in the Southeast Asian country, a Myanmar government official said Tuesday.

A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced a disabled lawyer who defended tenants’ rights to more than two years in jail for “picking quarrels” and fraud, a local human rights advocacy group said.

Al Qaeda militants seized control of a military base and two checkpoints during raids in southern Yemen on Monday in which at least 21 people died, security officials and residents said.

Al Qaeda militants seized control of a military base and two checkpoints during raids in southern Yemen on Monday in which at least 21 people died, security officials and residents said.

Opening in select U.S. theaters next week, the documentary “Putin’s Kiss” tells the story of a Russian teenager who became famous in the mid-2000s when she was shown on TV giving President Vladimir Putin a kiss on the cheek.

Opening in select U.S. theaters next week, the documentary “Putin’s Kiss” tells the story of a Russian teenager who became famous in the mid-2000s when she was shown on TV giving President Vladimir Putin a kiss on the cheek.

When Apostolos Polyzonis’s bank refused to see him last September, the 55-year-old Greek businessman had just 10 euros ($13) in his pocket. Out of work and bankrupt, he thought all he could do with his remaining money was to buy a gas can.