It's 10:45 a.m. on a cloudy day, and the crew of Druk Air flight KB205 is preparing to land at their home airport of Paro, Bhutan. Suddenly, ominous warnings start blaring, alerting them that their flight angle is all wrong and their rate of descent is far too fast. They fly a series of unconventional right-and-left banks through a narrow channel of hillsides before centering the swaying jet and putting it on the tarmac.
The president of Honduras said Friday he is suspending the accreditation of the U.S. ambassador to his country in solidarity with Bolivia, whose president accused Washington of siding with anti-government protesters.
Mexico hardly looked like world beaters in a 2-1 win over Honduras on Aug. 20, Sven-Göran Eriksson's debut as coach. Honduras went up early and held a 1-0 lead for more than a half hour before Mexico answered with two late goals to win the World Cup qualifying match.
Twenty-six alleged members of a Hispanic gang believed to be one of the nation's largest and most violent were indicted in North Carolina and charged with offenses including drug activity, racketeering, assault and murder, according to federal court documents.
Five people died and more than 80 were injured when a commercial airliner overshot the runway into an adjoining street, crushing three vehicles and splitting into three sections before resting a few feet from a house, officials said.
Canada isn't Mexico, and probably never the twain shall meet. Yet overconfidence in the American camp won't be brimming prior to the U.S.' semifinal showdown Thursday to determine who goes to the Beijing Olympics this summer (Fox Soccer Channel, 9 p.m. ET).
More than 5,000 soldiers and police have fanned out across Honduras to fight a wave of violent crime that also has swept across El Salvador and Guatemala.
A casual observer at CONCACAF's Olympic qualifying tournament may not be able to pick out the supposed regional powers after the competition's rocky start.
It's 10:45 a.m. on a cloudy day, and the crew of Druk Air flight KB205 is preparing to land at their home airport of Paro, Bhutan. Suddenly, ominous warnings start blaring, alerting them that their flight angle is all wrong and their rate of descent is far too fast. They fly a series of unconventional right-and-left banks through a narrow channel of hillsides before centering the swaying jet and putting it on the tarmac.
The president of Honduras said Friday he is suspending the accreditation of the U.S. ambassador to his country in solidarity with Bolivia, whose president accused Washington of siding with anti-government protesters.
Mexico hardly looked like world beaters in a 2-1 win over Honduras on Aug. 20, Sven-Göran Eriksson's debut as coach. Honduras went up early and held a 1-0 lead for more than a half hour before Mexico answered with two late goals to win the World Cup qualifying match.
Twenty-six alleged members of a Hispanic gang believed to be one of the nation's largest and most violent were indicted in North Carolina and charged with offenses including drug activity, racketeering, assault and murder, according to federal court documents.
Five people died and more than 80 were injured when a commercial airliner overshot the runway into an adjoining street, crushing three vehicles and splitting into three sections before resting a few feet from a house, officials said.
Canada isn't Mexico, and probably never the twain shall meet. Yet overconfidence in the American camp won't be brimming prior to the U.S.' semifinal showdown Thursday to determine who goes to the Beijing Olympics this summer (Fox Soccer Channel, 9 p.m. ET).
More than 5,000 soldiers and police have fanned out across Honduras to fight a wave of violent crime that also has swept across El Salvador and Guatemala.
A casual observer at CONCACAF's Olympic qualifying tournament may not be able to pick out the supposed regional powers after the competition's rocky start.
I was recently scanning the rosters of the teams still involved in the Champions League. Did you know there are 53 countries represented on those rosters? There are players from all over the world -- Honduras, Congo, Belarus, South Korea even Angola.
Nestled in the coolers of more than 7,000 Starbucks stores sits Ethos Water, a 23.6-ounce bottle festooned with a map of the world. What distinguishes it from other brands? The company was founded by Peter Thum, a former strategy consultant who dreamed of providing clean drinking water to Third World countries by selling expensive bottled water in the West. His idea was simple: For every bottle sold, Ethos would donate part of the profit to clean-water initiatives in developing countries such as Honduras and Kenya. After three years of bootstrapping a concept that repelled most investors, Thum sold Ethos to Starbucks for $7.7 million in 2005. Already Ethos's per bottle donations have increased by 263%. By 2010, Ethos plans to give at least $10 million by 2010 to nonprofits that fund safe-water projects. From his new digs in the coffee giant's Seattle offices, Thum, 39, tells FSB how he got Ethos off the ground.
For four hours Friday morning, I joined about 200 immigrants -- legal and illegal -- at a day-laborer site at the corner of East Columbia Avenue and Broad Avenue in downtown Palisades Park, New Jersey.
Rescuers searched for survivors of Hurricane Felix on Thursday as the death toll from the powerful storm rose to nearly 100, according to The Associated Press.
Hurricane Felix has killed 21 people in Nicaragua and another 200 were missing, said the U.S. military's Southern Command, citing Nicaraguan officials.
Felix was barely clinging to hurricane status Tuesday, but the storm still posed a "major flood threat" and could dump as much as 2 feet of rain in some areas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Hurricane Felix increased in strength in the early hours of Tuesday as it barreled toward Central America, where it is expected to come ashore along the Nicaragua-Honduras border.
Hurricane Felix has grown to a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 storm packing winds up to 165 mph (270 kph), the National Hurricane Center said late Sunday.
Critics say corruption persists in Russian health care despite Russia's booming economy and its decision to spend billions to improve the health care system
Americans have never taken much to living abroad, at least not to the same degree the British have. Some 5.5 million Brits, about 10 percent of that nation's total population, now live as expatriates, with 200,000 more every year.
Time is an abstract concept on Ranguana Cay. It's useless anyway on a 2-acre sand spit in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Central America. Here, salt-baked sands bleach under a constant white sun; if not for its movement from one side of the hammock to the other, you might never know the day has passed until it's just you, the moon and the faint lights of Honduras to the south.
John Mark Karr, who claims to have been involved in the 1996 death of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, could be headed back to Colorado as soon as Tuesday, pending results of an extradition hearing.
The Bloods, Crips, Disciples and an increasingly popular street gang known as MS-13 were among the gangs targeted in a Department of Homeland Security operation over the past two weeks that yielded 375 arrests of wanted members in 23 states, the department announced Friday.
As the need for speed in fashion retailing becomes ever more crucial to merchants, industry observers say "Made in U.S.A" is once again looking more attractive to some U.S. retailers versus importing from China.
Hurricane Beta's heavy rains drenched Nicaragua and Honduras Sunday afternoon as the weakening storm moved inland following an early morning landfall with 105 mph (170 km/hr) winds.
A massive international sweep targeting violent MS-13 gang members in the United States and Central America produced about 660 arrests, law enforcement authorities announced Thursday.
Inmates from rival gangs clashed in three Guatemalan prisons Monday, leaving at least 31 prisoners dead before police restored order, the country's interior minister said.
José" and "Maria" seem to be living the American dream. A wiry, mustachioed man in perpetual motion, José, 36, runs a profitable seven-year-old garment business in Southern California that brought ...
A federal jury in Virginia Tuesday convicted two members of a violent street gang in the slaying of a female gang member who had been a government informant.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has urged the leaders of 13 coalition countries to honor their troop commitments and remain in Iraq, the State Department says.
Earlier this year, El Salvador adopted the U.S. dollar as its official currency, joining a growing band of Latin American nations that are "dollarizing" to fight inflation and attract foreign inves...
There was plenty of news at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos: Antiglobalization protesters confronted Swiss police, Yasser Arafat excoriated Israel. And then there was this quiet little ann...
So now, having taken away the value of my stock options, Wall Street tells me that cigars are over. I heard it the other day, when shares of Morton's steak houses fell more than five bucks on the s...
Picture this. Ten-year-old children get up before dawn every morning and go to work. They are paid by the piece, not by a guaranteed hourly wage. They get no benefits. And they work seven days a we...
With more than 100,000 berths to be filled in 1994, cruise lines are offering discounts of up to 30% to vacationers who book early. "Demand is strong," reports Larry Fishkin of the Cruise Line, a M...
Apartment life is so cramped in Tokyo that the most common pets are tropical fish and parakeets. But as the Japanese get richer, their taste for something more exotic is rising. The current craze: ...
Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, 52, doesn't live on bread and sauce alone. The chairman and CEO of the $2.3-billion-a-year pie purveyor is giving up his additional title of president so that h...
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