PORT-AU-PRINCE — President Michel Martelly announced he has appointed a new council to oversee Haitian legislative and local elections that are two years overdue, an …

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti raised its minimum wage slightly for the estimated 29,000 workers who sew together T-shirts and other clothing in the country’s apparel factories.

MONROE, Mich. (AP) – A southeast Michigan public school teacher has been removed from the classroom while district officials look into whether a lesson plan …

MIAMI — The return for a seventh season of Free Gospel Sundays has been announced by the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Jean-Claude Duvalier, who presided over what was widely acknowledged as a corrupt and brutal regime as the self-proclaimed “president for life” …

MIAMI — Florida’s controversial “stand your ground” law which became nationally infamous after the fatal shooting of Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, …

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is launching an “extraordinary” audit of Jamaica’s drug-testing agency following allegations that its policing of the …

LAGOS, Nigeria — The girls in the school dorm could hear the sound of gunshots from a nearby town. So when armed men in uniforms …

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) – A former Neenah police officer has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, alleging racial discrimination. In the lawsuit, Renee Porter, the …

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – In death, Nelson Mandela unified South Africans of all races and backgrounds Sunday on a day of prayer for the …