A recent poll of Republican presidential primary voters in the early voting states of New Hampshire and South Carolina finds an unexpected result for the 17 candidates campaigning there. Most of these voters support regulating carbon pollution — even using President Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). … [Read more...]

Two passenger trains derailed minutes apart on the flooded tracks of a bridge in central India, killing at least 24 people while more than 300 survived, officials said Wednesday.  … [Read more...]

The body bobbed to the surface of Biscayne Bay right along a seawall behind Mount Sinai Medical Center February 6. Judging by her blond hair and small frame, passersby at first told the media that a teenager had been pulled from the cool water. But five days later, police announced she was actually a 27-year-old Finnish woman named Essi Puhakka. … [Read more...]

Argentine authorities have successfully guided a whale out of the marina of a glitzy area in Buenos Aires and hope that it will now return to sea. Roxana Schteinbarg is the executive coordinator of the Whale Conservation Institute in Argentina. She tells The Associated Press that the whale had left the marina of the Puerto Madero neighborhood. … [Read more...]

A poster campaign by the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats at a subway station in central Stockholm has stirred outrage in the Nordic country. The posters plastered above the escalators at Ostermalmstorg subway station are directed to tourists visiting the Swedish capital. … [Read more...]

Officials said a father and his daughter were killed, and at least 22 others were injured, after a circus tent collapsed when a severe storm raked a New Hampshire fairground Monday night. The accident happened at around 5:30 p.m. ET as the first of two scheduled circus shows was getting underway. … [Read more...]

Debate is intensifying in South Africa over the practice of hunting captive-bred lions. Critics, who refer to the custom as "canned hunting," say lions that are bred in captivity are not afraid of people, making them easy targets for shooting in relatively confined areas. … [Read more...]

Paratroopers from Russia, China and several other nations have shown their skills at military competitions in western Russia. The troops parachuted, overcame obstacles, shot their weapons and conducted races in combat vehicles at Dubrovichi shooting range in Ryazan region, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) southeast of Moscow. … [Read more...]