There were no injuries reported from the derailment, CN’s second in the region in just three days and third in less than a month.
Nation and World
President Barack Obama on Saturday spoke with vigorous passion to thousands gathered here to commemorate the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.”
Dolphin trainer Jose Luis Barbero, who was expected to become vice president of the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, was found dead inside his vehicle at Spanish airport parking lot, a source with the Spanish National Police told CNN on Saturday. The source said the case is being treated as a suicide.
The New York Times said that at around the same time as the fire, a bomb-sniffing dog had detected something on a nearby vehicle, although the two incidents did not appear related. The vehicle was being checked.
The Intelligence and Security Committee, which oversees the work of Britain’s three spy agencies, said it was crucial there was more diversity if the security services were to be able to address the threats facing the country.
Racist emails — like one that depicted President Obama as a chimpanzee — resulted in three Ferguson, Missouri, city employees resigning or being fired, the city spokesman said Friday.
Police in Tanzania said on Friday they had arrested 32 witch doctors this week as part of a campaign against ritual killings of albinos.
It was a sophisticated attack with sophisticated devices. Authorities quickly identified the Boston bombing suspects, but almost immediately after Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed during the manhunt for the perpetrators and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured, investigators privately questioned if more people were involved.
A truck driver who may have been fatigued veered into oncoming traffic on a rural Washington state highway on Thursday, killing a woman driving a car and crashing into a school bus loaded with children, a state trooper said.
A jury in Arizona failed to reach a verdict on Thursday in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias, sparing the former waitress from the death penalty for murdering her ex-boyfriend in 2008.
A year on from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, an extraordinary amount of key data remains unknown – fueling conspiracy theories and heated online debate about one of aviation’s biggest mysteries.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have warned law enforcement agencies across the country about American youths wanting to join Islamic State militants fighting in the Middle East, officials said on Thursday.
Michael Brown’s parents will file a wrongful death civil lawsuit against Ferguson, Missouri and the white police officer who shot dead the unarmed 18-year-old black man last August in the St. Louis suburb, a family attorney said on Thursday.
North Korea has detained the head pastor of one of Canada’s largest congregations, who went missing during a regular humanitarian mission last month, a church spokeswoman said Thursday.
A treacherous winter storm reaching from Texas to New England closed schools, canceled more than 4,000 flights and stranded hundreds of drivers overnight in Kentucky, where as much as 23 inches of snow fell. And a Delta Air Lines plane arriving in heavy snow at New York’s LaGuardia Airport from Atlanta slid off the runway.