LAGOS, Nigeria (AP)_ MTN Nigeria has been fined $5.2 billion for failing to disconnect 5.1 million unregistered cellphone subscribers. The stock of the South African-based company […]

PARIS (AP)_ It’s official: Ham, sausage and other processed meats can lead to colon, stomach and other cancers _ and red meat is probably cancer-causing, too. […]

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) _ The U.N. World Health Organization is formally removing Nigeria from the list of polio-endemic countries, meaning the entire African continent is free of […]

By David McFadden And Danica Coto THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti _ Voting appeared orderly and largely peaceful in presidential and parliamentary elections that Haitians hope […]

By Tom Withers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AKRON, Ohio _ LeBron James welcomed a high-profile guest to show kids in his hometown that they can grow up […]

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad(AP) _ Police are investigating the slaying of a British man and his wife who were found hacked to death in their home on the […]

By Marcy Gordon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON _ President Barack Obama is nominating two women, both attorneys and academics at Washington-area universities, as members of the […]

By David McFadden THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti _ About a dozen top Haitian officials appeared on state television Wednesday in an effort to reassure anxious […]

By Michael Tarm THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO _ The wife of former U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. reported to prison Tuesday, the second half of the […]

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo(AP) _ Witnesses say police in Republic of Congo’s capital have fired tear gas to try to disperse protests against a constitutional […]

By David McFadden And Evens Sanon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti _ Deadly pre-election violence has flared up in and around Haiti‘s most notorious slum and […]

  SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic _ Thirty-five people have been injured following a bus crash in the Dominican Republic. A traffic division spokesman says the bus […]