SEOUL, South Korea — President Barack Obama warned North Korea and Iran today that their options are few, and their friends fewer, as those nations refuse to back down from actions the world sees as menacing. “By now it should be clear,” Obama said, addressing North Korea from the South Korean capital only about 30 miles […]

HARDY, Ark. (AP) — Rescue crews are searching for a 3-year-old boy who went missing from a Boy Scout camp in northeastern Arkansas. Arkansas State Police say Caleb Linn has not been seen since Saturday morning. Police say Caleb was among 11 children working on a cleanup project at a bridge near the Kia Kima […]

GIGLIO, Italy ( AP) — Divers have recovered nearly all of the bodies from the wreck of the Costa Concordia, two months after the cruise ship struck a reef and capsized off Italy’s Tuscan coast. Italy’s Civil Protection Agency said that by early this afternoon divers had brought up four of the five bodies located […]

BAMAKO, Mali ( AP) — Demonstrators in Mali’s capital are demanding a return to constitutional order days after mutinous soldiers claimed power in a coup. About a thousand people, including members of youth movements and political parties, gathered today in central Bamako. Some of the youth groups threatened to march on state TV and radio […]

SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) — This sun- scorched city is accustomed to playing second fiddle to Havana at the other end of Cuba. Today, Santiago de Cuba gets a real day in the sun because Pope Benedict XVI is beginning his Cuba trip here. Authorities have built huge steel arches in the shape of a papal […]

HONOLULU (AP) — “Titanic” director James Cameron dove to the Earth’s deepest point in a specially designed submarine, the National Geographic Society said, making him the first man to travel alone to the near 7-mile depth of the Marianas Trench. The Hollywood icon, also the director of “Avatar” and other films, touched down in the […]

TOKYO ( AP) — Another Japanese nuclear reactor was taken off line for maintenance today, leaving the country with only one of its 54 reactors operational following last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami. The last reactor is expected to be shut down by early May, raising the possibility of power shortages across the nation as […]

DETROIT (AP) — The bodies of two women discovered buried in woods on the west side of Detroit are likely the remains of two housemates who witnesses claim were forced into a car trunk at gunpoint nearly a month ago, police said. Abreeya Brown, 18, and Ashley Conaway, 21, were abducted Feb. 28 by two […]