By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press The indictment against Ratko Mladic - who went on trial Wednesday at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands - holds the former Bosnian Serb army...More >>
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press The indictment against Ratko Mladic - who went on trial Wednesday at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands - holds the former Bosnian Serb army...More >>
Poland's former President Lech Walesa says that members of Solidarity, the trade union he once led, deserve to be beaten for a disruptive protest they staged last week in Warsaw.More >>
Poland's former President Lech Walesa said Wednesday that members of Solidarity, the trade union he once led, deserve to be beaten for a disruptive protest they staged last week in Warsaw.More >>
A beauty pageant in Fiji has turned into a fiasco involving race, age and even a claim that the contest was rigged.More >>
First came complaints that the winner of the Miss World Fiji pageant looked too Western to represent her country. Then her age came under scrutiny.More >>
A team of international observers was evacuated Wednesday from a tense town in northern Syria a day after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, a U.N. spokesman said.More >>
A team of international observers was evacuated from a tense town in northern Syria on Wednesday, one day after a roadside bomb hit their convoy and left them stranded overnight with rebel forces, a U.N. spokesman said.More >>
Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language.More >>
Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language.More >>
Yemen military officials say the latest fighting to uproot al-Qaida from the country's south has killed 13 militants, as well as four soldiers and two militiamen fighting alongside the army.More >>
Clashes between government troops and al-Qaida fighters left 19 people dead in southern Yemen on Wednesday, military officials said.More >>
The top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner says he wants the shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat to appear before a Palestinian court on embezzlement charges.More >>
The shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat is being sought on suspicion he stole millions of dollars in public funds, the top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner said Wednesday.More >>
A father of 17 who lost six children in an arson attack on his central England home described Wednesday how he made a desperate attempt to rescue the siblings after the blaze broke out.More >>
A father of 17 who lost six children in an arson attack on his central England home described Wednesday how he made a desperate attempt to rescue the siblings after the blaze broke out.More >>
An international human rights group says the West African state of Mali is suffering its worst crisis since independence after a coup in the capital and a rebel takeover in the country's north.More >>
The West African state of Mali is suffering its worst crisis in half a century after a coup in the capital and a rebel takeover in the country's north, an international human rights group said in a report released...More >>
An Egyptian rights group has released the most comprehensive list to date of the more than 800 civilians killed by security forces in the 18-day uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak last year, saying that 30 are still...More >>
Egypt's military ruler says the country's upcoming presidential election will be a "model" of a free and fair vote and will reflect the will of the people.More >>
Syrian forces are targeting medical workers and patients who were wounded in the 14-month-old conflict, forcing doctors to scramble to help the injured in makeshift clinics, an international aid agency warned Tuesday.More >>
A team of international observers was evacuated Wednesday from a tense town in northern Syria a day after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, a U.N. spokesman said.More >>
Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says that the European Union can send experts to assess both the medical state of his jailed predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko and the legal process that led to her conviction and...More >>
Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Wednesday that the European Union can send experts to assess both the medical state of his jailed predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko and the legal process that led to her conviction...More >>
An official says a second endangered Sumatran elephant has been poisoned in western Indonesia, apparently by villagers trying to protect their crops.More >>
An official says a second endangered Sumatran elephant has been poisoned in western Indonesia, apparently by villagers trying to protect their crops.More >>
A Human Rights Watch investigation has found that renegade Congolese ex-general Bosco Ntaganda forcibly recruited at least 149 boys and young men to fight since his defection from the army in April.More >>
A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human...More >>
Police used batons to disperse stone-throwing opposition supporters outside a court in Bangladesh's capital Wednesday after a judge denied bail to 33 senior opposition members charged with involvement in an arson attack...More >>
Police used batons to disperse stone-throwing opposition supporters outside a court in Bangladesh's capital Wednesday after a judge denied bail to 33 senior opposition members charged with involvement in an arson attack...More >>
Police in southern Thailand have seized 26 kilograms (57 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine concealed in a pickup truck's headlights. They arrested six people and say the drugs were to be smuggled to Malaysia.More >>
Police in southern Thailand have seized 26 kilograms (57 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine concealed in a pickup truck's headlights. They arrested six people and say the drugs were to be smuggled to Malaysia.More >>
The terror trial of Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president who is accused of running death squads against Shiite pilgrims and government officials has started in Baghdad.More >>
Former bodyguards for Iraq's fugitive vice president have testified that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader got under way.More >>
NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the...More >>
NATO has invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the war in...More >>
Twenty years after the opening shots of the Bosnian War, former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.More >>
Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal accused of 11 counts of genocide,...More >>
A prominent rights activist jailed in Bahrain says his detention is a political act aimed at weakening the uprising against the Gulf kingdom's rulers.More >>
A prominent rights activist jailed in Bahrain says his detention is a political act aimed at weakening the uprising against the Gulf kingdom's rulers.More >>
A Shanghai lawyer says he is trying to visit the jailed nephew of dissident Chen Guangcheng, who sparked a diplomatic crisis last month when he fled into the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.More >>
A blind Chinese activist who sparked a diplomatic crisis by fleeing into the U.S. Embassy last month filled out a Chinese passport application and posed for a photo Wednesday, moving forward in his bid to study in the United...More >>
Judges are hearing oral sentencing pleas in Charles Taylor's war crimes case Wednesday, with the former Liberian president expected to speak on his own behalf.More >>
Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor told judges at his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and judges should render...More >>
Martha Nussbaum, a U.S. philosopher who has defended a strong role for humanities in education, has won Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize for social sciences.More >>
Martha Nussbaum, a U.S. philosopher who has defended a strong role for humanities in education, has won Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize for social sciences.More >>
Indonesian special forces have found the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that smashed into the side of a volcano, killing 45 people. The recording of the plane's veteran pilots could help explain what...More >>
Investigators on Wednesday were analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into the side of an Indonesian volcano. They hope the final words of the two pilots will help explain what caused...More >>
Security forces fatally shot a teenage girl Wednesday during a clash with villagers armed with axes and crossbows in eastern Cambodia, in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development.More >>
Security forces fatally shot a teenage girl Wednesday during a clash with villagers armed with axes and crossbows in eastern Cambodia, in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development.More >>
The new U.S. ambassador to Malta has said farewell to 27 Somali and Eritrean refugees headed to the United States under a refugee resettlement program.More >>
The new U.S. ambassador to Malta has said farewell to 27 Somali and Eritrean refugees headed to the United States under a refugee resettlement program.More >>
Europe's human rights court is hearing the case of a German citizen who says the CIA illegally whisked him to a secret prison in Afghanistan in one of the biggest embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism.More >>
Europe's human rights court is hearing the case of a German citizen who says the CIA illegally whisked him to a secret prison in Afghanistan in one of the biggest embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism.More >>
Bangladesh says a four-member commission will investigate 54 businesses linked to the pioneering microlender Grameen Bank.More >>
Bangladesh has ordered a four-member commission to investigate 54 businesses linked to the pioneering microlender Grameen Bank founded by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.More >>
The head of a major Greek business organization has lashed out at the country's politicians for failing to form a coalition government and triggering new elections, accusing them of acting like "undertakers"More >>
The head of a major Greek business organization has lashed out at the country's politicians for failing to form a coalition government and triggering new elections, accusing them of acting like "undertakers"More >>
A South African police spokesman says officers tipped off by an anonymous informer forced their way into a Johannesburg apartment where they found 10 rhinoceros horns and an elephant tusk and arrested a Vietnamese man.More >>
Police officers tipped off by an anonymous informer forced their way into a Johannesburg apartment where they found 10 rhinoceros horns and an elephant tusk and arrested a Vietnamese man, a police spokesman said Wednesday.More >>
China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, in its most elaborate attempt so far to shape international opinion about the protests against Chinese rule.More >>
China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, in its most elaborate attempt so far to shape international opinion about the protests against Chinese rule.More >>
Russian police has uprooted a protest camp in central Moscow that has recently become a center of opposition activity.More >>
Russian police uprooted a protest camp in central Moscow that has become a center of opposition activity, rousting demonstrators in an early morning raid Wednesday hours before a deadline to leave.More >>
Police say attackers fired shots and detonated grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing one person and injuring four.More >>
Police say attackers fired shots and detonated grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing one person and injuring four.More >>
Cambodian activists say a 13-year-old girl was shot to death Wednesday in the latest of several clashes between villagers and authorities trying to evict them to make room for development.More >>
Cambodian activists say a 13-year-old girl was shot to death Wednesday in the latest of several clashes between villagers and authorities trying to evict them to make room for development.More >>
The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give up its capabilities to make nuclear fuel. But embedded in the messages are meanings that reach beyond Tehran's talks with...More >>
The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give up its capabilities to make nuclear fuel. But embedded in the messages are meanings that reach beyond Tehran's talks with...More >>
Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery waged a four-front assault on al-Qaida militants Tuesday, trying to uproot their hold in the south in an offensive Yemeni officials said was for the first time being...More >>
Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have waged a four-front assault against the strongholds of al-Qaida militants in the south, with U.S. troops for the first time helping direct the offensive from a nearby...More >>
A midday bombing that killed two bodyguards of an archconservative former interior minister and injured at least 39 people in a busy commercial district of Bogota has raised fears that violence not seen in the Colombian...More >>
A midday bombing that killed two bodyguards of an archconservative former interior minister and injured at least 39 people in a busy commercial district of Bogota has raised fears that violence not seen in the Colombian...More >>
World stock markets dropped Monday as worries intensified over the condition of the eurozone and whether Greece is edging towards leaving the single currency union.More >>
Asian stocks dived Wednesday after a failure by Greece's political leaders to form a coalition government set the stage for new elections next month, keeping Europe's debt crisis center stage.More >>
Australia has announced it will contribute $100 million annually for three years beginning in 2015 to support Afghan National Security Forces after they take responsibility for their country's security.More >>
Australia will contribute $100 million annually for three years beginning in 2015 toward the $4 billion a year cost of running the Afghan National Security Forces after they take responsibility for their country's...More >>
Philippine officials say a Malaysian man has been freed by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants after a year of jungle captivity in the country's south.More >>
Philippine officials say a Malaysian man has been freed by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants after a year of jungle captivity in the country's south.More >>
A bomb has exploded on a crowded street in Colombia's capital and the city's health director says at least 19 people have been injured.More >>
A bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 39 people in Bogota's uptown commercial district Tuesday in the type of brazen attack not seen in Colombia's...More >>
The European Union says its naval force off the Somali coastline has carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets on shore.More >>
European Union naval forces in attack helicopters conducted their first onshore raid on a suspected pirate lair in Somalia. A pirate said the strike destroyed a supply center and set back operations.More >>
Uzbekistan's government plans to sell off almost 500 state assets over the next two years in an ongoing drive to expand the private sector in this former Soviet nation.More >>
Uzbekistan's government plans to sell off almost 500 state assets over the next two years in an ongoing drive to expand the private sector in this former Soviet nation.More >>
A bomb targeting a former Colombian interior minister killed at least two people on Tuesday and injured at least 19 others in the heart of Bogota's commercial district, authorities said.More >>
A bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 39 people in Bogota's uptown commercial district Tuesday in the type of brazen attack not seen in Colombia's...More >>
The parks filled with statues were heralded as a celebration of India's lowest caste. Authorities in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh are now investigating whether the billion-dollar project was an elaborate plot to...More >>
The parks filled with statues were heralded as a celebration of India's lowest caste. Authorities in Uttar Pradesh state are now investigating whether the billion-dollar project was an elaborate swindle.More >>
Mexico's cultural agency says prolific Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes has died in a hospital in Mexico City. He was 83.More >>
Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America's novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83.More >>
Defense lawyers in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo are asking a military judge to order testimony from senior U.S. government officials in a motion to dismiss charges.More >>
Defense teams in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo are asking a military judge to order senior U.S. government officials to testify at the U.S. base in Cuba as part of a motion to dismiss charges, a lawyer for one of the...More >>
NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the...More >>
NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the...More >>
The Legion of Christ religious order was hit Tuesday by its second scandal in a week after its most well-known priest - a prominent author, lecturer and television personality - admitted he had fathered a child.More >>
The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from revelations that its late founder was a pedophile, admitted Wednesday that it knew that its most famous priest had fathered a child years ago yet didn't remove him...More >>
Banners have appeared in northern Mexico signed by the Zetas drug cartel saying the gang was not responsible for killing 49 people whose mutilated bodies were found on a highway in a neighboring state.More >>
Banners have appeared in northern Mexico signed by the Zetas drug cartel saying the gang was not responsible for killing 49 people whose mutilated bodies were found on a highway in a neighboring state.More >>
The Haitian government is drafting legislation for the newly emerging mining industry to help this impoverished Caribbean nation reap benefits, the new prime minister said Tuesday.More >>
The Haitian government is drafting legislation for the newly emerging mining industry to help this impoverished Caribbean nation reap benefits, the new prime minister said Tuesday.More >>
A Guatemalan mother who says her child was stolen and later turned over to a U.S. couple for adoption said Tuesday that she will go to a Missouri court seeking to get her daughter back now that the U.S. State Department has...More >>
A Guatemalan mother who says her child was stolen and later turned over to a U.S. couple for adoption said Tuesday that she will go to a Missouri court seeking to get her daughter back now that the U.S. State Department has...More >>
Prosecutors are announcing whether ex-News of the World editor and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will face charges over Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal.More >>
One of Rupert Murdoch's most trusted lieutenants and five people close to her were charged with conspiring to hide evidence of phone hacking, bringing the scandal that has raged across Britain's media and political...More >>
Search teams have found some cockpit instruments in the wreckage of a Russian passenger jet that slammed into a cliff atop a dormant Indonesian volcano.More >>
Indonesian special forces have found the voice-and-data recorder of a new Russian passenger jet that slammed into a jagged, mist-shrouded cliff on a dormant volcano, an official said Wednesday.More >>
Haiti's new prime minister says his government is drafting legislation on a newly emerging mining industry to ensure the impoverished Caribbean nation reaps its fair share.More >>
Haiti's new prime minister says his government is drafting legislation on a newly emerging mining industry to ensure the impoverished Caribbean nation reaps its fair share.More >>
French officials say that new President Francois Hollande's plane was hit by lightning en route to Berlin. They say no one was hurt but that the plane returned to Paris as a precaution.More >>
Socialist Francois Hollande assumed France's presidency Tuesday, inheriting a country fearful for its financial future and jetting off immediately to Berlin to tackle his most pressing problem: Europe's debt crisis.More >>
Marie de Medici wore it at her coronation as Queen Consort of Henry IV in France in 1610, and now the Beau Sancy diamond is a lavish accessory owned by an anonymous bidder who paid $9.7 million for it at Sotheby's...More >>
Marie de Medici wore it at her coronation as Queen Consort of Henry IV in France in 1610, and now the Beau Sancy diamond is a lavish accessory owned by an anonymous bidder who paid $9.7 million for it at Sotheby's...More >>
A British judge has sentenced a Bangladeshi man to 15 years in prison for paying young girls for sex and trying to recruit others into prostitution in northern England.More >>
A British judge on Tuesday sentenced a Bangladeshi man to 15 years in prison for paying young girls for sex and trying to recruit some as young as 12 years old into prostitution in northern England.More >>
Former bodyguards for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader got under...More >>
Former bodyguards for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader got under...More >>
U.N. nuclear negotiators seeking to probe Tehran's nuclear program for signs of secret work on atomic-weapons technology spoke of a good exchange of views Tuesday after talks with Iranian officials, who described the...More >>
U.N. nuclear negotiators seeking to probe Tehran's nuclear program for signs of secret work on atomic-weapons technology spoke of a good exchange of views Tuesday after talks with Iranian officials, who described the...More >>
The longtime operations chief of Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo human rights group has been jailed on charges of embezzlement and criminal conspiracy.More >>
The longtime operations chief of Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo human rights group has been jailed on charges of embezzlement and criminal conspiracy.More >>
An Israeli advocacy group says it has won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing.More >>
An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing, the group's director...More >>
The Iranian delegate to talks with the U.N. nuclear agency says the meeting is going well, as the two sides discuss suspicions Tehran might have tested atomic arms technology.More >>
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The Legion of Christ religious order has been hit by a second scandal in a week with the admission that its most well-known priest had fathered a child.More >>
The Legion of Christ religious order was hit by the second scandal in a week with the admission Tuesday that its most well-known priest, a prominent author, lecturer and television personality, had fathered a child.More >>
At the gallows, the condemned prisoner Tuesday repeated the allegations Iran lodged against him: That he was trained by Israel's spy agency to carry out one of the first attack on Iranian scientists in a suspected shadow...More >>
At the gallows, the condemned prisoner Tuesday repeated the allegations Iran lodged against him: That he was trained by Israel's spy agency to carry out one of the first attack on Iranian scientists in a suspected shadow...More >>
Francois Hollande campaigned for the French presidency with some pretty radical promises. But his carefully worded agenda and his political record suggest that after he takes over Tuesday, he's likely to revert to the...More >>
Francois Hollande campaigned for the French presidency with some pretty radical promises. But his carefully worded agenda and his political record suggest as president he's likely to revert to the moderate...More >>
At a campaign rally for the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president, a hardline cleric and TV preacher sang Mohammed Morsi's praises before thousands massed in the stadium of an industrial city in Egypt's...More >>
At a campaign rally for the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president, a hardline cleric and TV preacher sang Mohammed Morsi's praises before thousands massed in the stadium of an industrial city in Egypt's...More >>
A roadside bomb struck cars belonging to the U.N. observer mission in Syria on Tuesday, just minutes after regime forces opened fired on a funeral procession nearby and caused multiple casualties, witnesses said.More >>
A roadside bomb struck cars belonging to the U.N. observer mission in Syria on Tuesday, just minutes after regime forces opened fired on a funeral procession nearby and caused multiple casualties, witnesses said.More >>
A trench dug across a red dirt road marks part of the shifting border this week between Sudan and South Sudan, old enemies whose forces have clashed in recent weeks. Truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns and 107mm rocket...More >>
A trench dug across a red dirt road marks part of the shifting border this week between Sudan and South Sudan, old enemies whose forces have clashed in recent weeks. Truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns and 107mm rocket...More >>
A notorious ex-warlord who became a general in the Congolese army despite international war crimes charges is now being blamed for fomenting more unrest in Congo's east and faces new charges of crimes against humanity.More >>
A notorious ex-warlord who became a general in the Congolese army despite international war crimes charges is now being blamed for fomenting more unrest in Congo's east and faces new charges of crimes against humanity.More >>
Oslo police say a man set himself on fire outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre last JulyMore >>
An unidentified man was seriously injured in a self-immolation Tuesday outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre that killed...More >>
A Ukrainian court has postponed hearing former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's appeal of her conviction and seven-year sentence for abusing her powers in signing a gas deal with Russia.More >>
Ukraine's prime minister said Tuesday that his predecessor had been correctly convicted of abusing her powers in signing a gas deal with Russia, and invited European observers to watch her appeal.More >>
Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, their military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic is finally going on trial on charges of masterminding atrocities throughout the...More >>
Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, their military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic is finally going on trial on charges of masterminding atrocities throughout the...More >>
France gets a new president as Francois Hollande is sworn in as the country's first Socialist leader in nearly two decades at a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in central Paris.More >>
Francois Hollande walked up the steps of the Elysee Palace in Paris and walked out Tuesday as France's first Socialist president since 1995, taking the helm of a country worried about Europe's future and pledging to...More >>
A U.N. report warns that sub-Saharan African nations will not be able to sustain their economic growth unless they eliminate hunger.More >>
Sub-Saharan African nations will not be able to sustain their accelerated economic growth unless they eliminate hunger, the U.N. said in a report Tuesday.More >>
The leader of South Africa's main opposition party was whisked away from a protest in central Johannesburg after rocks were thrown at her.More >>
South Africa's main opposition party called a march Tuesday to make a point about economic policy, but ended up facing rock-throwing counter-protesters in scenes that illustrated that democracy and traditions of...More >>
Official figures show that the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro confounded expectations and avoided falling back into recession in the first quarter of the year.More >>
Germany prevented the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro from falling into a recession in the first quarter of the year despite a raging debt crisis that's raising the specter of the breakup of the currency...More >>
The defense attorney for a German-Afghan man accused of membership in al-Qaida and a second terrorist group says his client should spend no more than four years in jail.More >>
The defense attorney for a German-Afghan man accused of membership in al-Qaida and a second terrorist group says his client should spend no more than four years in jail.More >>
The European Union naval force patrolling the Indian Ocean on Tuesday carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets on shore, with a pirate reporting that the raid destroyed speed boats, fuel depots and an arms...More >>
The European Union naval force patrolling the Indian Ocean on Tuesday carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets on shore, with a pirate reporting that the raid destroyed speed boats, fuel depots and an arms...More >>
NATO says it will invite Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari to the alliance's summit in Chicago, after the country's foreign minister proposed reopening its Afghan border to NATO military supplies.More >>
NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to the alliance's summit in Chicago, after signs that the country could be moving to reopen its Afghan border to NATO military supplies.More >>
A Kenyan official says a policeman has died after the car he was traveling in was hit by a suspected improvised bomb at the world's largest refugee camp, near the border with Somalia.More >>
A Kenyan official says a policeman has died after the car he was traveling in was hit by a suspected improvised bomb at the world's largest refugee camp, near the border with Somalia.More >>
A U.S. army commander said Tuesday that a joint military drill that has brought together forces from 19 countries in Jordan is not meant as a threat to neighboring Syria or its leader, Bashar Assad.More >>
A U.S. army commander said Tuesday that a joint military drill that has brought together forces from 19 countries in Jordan is not meant as a threat to neighboring Syria or its leader, Bashar Assad.More >>
Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement that followed Israel's creation with a blend of sadness and hope, stopping in their tracks for a mournful siren but also flashing victory signs and carrying banners...More >>
Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement that followed Israel's creation with a blend of sadness and hope, stopping in their tracks for a mournful siren but also flashing victory signs and carrying banners...More >>
The president of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has rejected a bid by former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic to replace the Dutch presiding judge in his trial and delay the start of the case.More >>
The president of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Tuesday rejected a bid by former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic to replace the Dutch presiding judge in his trial and delay the start of the case.More >>
Firing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, Lebanese gunmen clashed in street battles Monday as sectarian tensions linked to the 14-month-old uprising in Syria bled across the border for a third day.More >>
Syrian forces are targeting medical workers and patients who were wounded in the 14-month-old conflict, forcing doctors to scramble to help the injured in makeshift clinics, an international aid agency warned Tuesday.More >>
She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old because it was crying too loud.More >>
She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old who was crying too loud.More >>
The Palestinian Minister for Prisoner Affairs says a deal has been reached with Israel to end a weekslong hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.More >>
Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement that followed Israel's creation with a blend of sadness and hope, stopping in their tracks for a mournful siren but also flashing victory signs and carrying banners...More >>
A Ugandan official says a top Joseph Kony associate arrested on Saturday may get amnesty in an arrangement that would disappoint activists who want Caesar Acellam tried for Lord's Resistance Army atrocities.More >>
Uganda may give amnesty to a top Joseph Kony associate arrested last week, a government official said, in an arrangement that would disappoint activists who want Caesar Acellam tried for Lord's Resistance Army atrocities.More >>
Myanmar's president has assured his South Korean counterpart that his country will no longer buy weapons from North Korea, while conceding it had done so to some extent over the past 20 years.More >>
Myanmar's president has confirmed that his country bought weapons from North Korea during the past 20 years and assured his South Korean counterpart that it will no longer do so.More >>
For years, the world has seen the people of North Korea as robotic automatons in meticulously staged mass spectacles that glorify one-family rule.More >>
From across the city, they are summoned to pay reverence.More >>
The International Organization for Migration says it has begun airlifting 12,000 stranded South Sudanese from the Sudanese town of Kosti, south of Khartoum.More >>
The International Organization for Migration says it has begun airlifting 12,000 stranded South Sudanese from the Sudanese town of Kosti, south of Khartoum.More >>
China criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday for meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support for Tibet's independence from Chinese rule.More >>
China criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday for meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support for Tibet's independence from Chinese rule.More >>
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are urging judges to convict two Congolese warlords of commanding fighters who wiped out a village in 2003, killing more than 200 civilians, including women children and the...More >>
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday urged judges to convict two Congolese warlords of commanding the fighters who wiped out a village in 2003, killing more than 200 civilians, including women children...More >>
Germany's economy grew by a stronger than expected 0.5 percent in the first three months of the year despite Europe's debt crisis.More >>
Market concerns over the European economy are showing signs of growing after a closely-watched survey of German investors recorded a sharp drop in sentiment after five straight months of increases.More >>
EU finance ministers are haggling in Brussels over rules to force banks to build up higher capital cushions to protect them against financial shocks, with the U.K. running the risk of being isolated in its position.More >>
European Union finance ministers are to meet in in Brussels Tuesday to hammer out an agreement over how high banks should build their defenses against future financial shocks, with the U.K. running the risk of being isolated...More >>
Greece's government on Tuesday strongly criticized the leader of an extreme right party who claimed that Nazi concentration camps did not use ovens and gas chambers to kill prisoners during the Holocaust.More >>
Greece's government on Tuesday strongly criticized the leader of an extreme right party who claimed that Nazi concentration camps did not use ovens and gas chambers to kill prisoners during the Holocaust.More >>
By PABLO GORONDI Associated Press Oil prices dropped to near $94 a barrel Monday due to concerns that China's economy, the world's second-largest, is slowing faster than expected as well as...More >>
Oil prices hovered below $95 a barrel Tuesday in Asia near a five-month low amid concern about Europe's debt crisis.More >>
Yemeni government forces pounded al-Qaida fighters on Monday, killing at least 16, while six soldiers died in clashes with militants in the country's troubled south where the army is trying to uproot the terror group,...More >>
Yemeni military officials say warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have intensified the war against al-Qaida along at least four fronts in the south.More >>
France's economy did not grow in the first quarter of the year, raising concerns that the country could be headed toward a recession.More >>
France's economy failed to grow in the first quarter of the year, according to data released Tuesday, raising concerns that the country could be heading toward a recession.More >>
She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old baby because it was crying too loud.More >>
She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old baby because it was crying too loud.More >>
Insurance company Allianz SE says its profits rose 58 percent in the first quarter compared to a year ago, when it had big payouts for natural disasters including the tsunami in Japan.More >>
Insurance company Allianz SE says its profits rose 58 percent in the first quarter compared to a year ago, when it had big payouts for natural disasters including the tsunami in Japan.More >>
A three-man crew blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan on board a Russian-made Soyuz craft for a half-year stay at the International Space Station.More >>
A three-man crew blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan Tuesday morning on board a Russian-made Soyuz craft for a four-and-half-month stay at the International Space Station.More >>
Iraqis are still being held illegally at a Baghdad prison that the government was supposed to have shut down in 2011 after allegations that detainees were tortured and abused there, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.More >>
Iraqis are still being held illegally at a Baghdad prison that the government was supposed to have shut down in 2011 after allegations that detainees were tortured and abused there, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.More >>
GUATEMALA (AP) - A Guatemalan official says the U.S. government has said it won't return a girl adopted after being snatched from her Guatemalan mother in 2006, because the two countries had not signed the Hague...More >>
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - The U.S. government has told Guatemala it won't return a girl adopted in 2008 after allegedly being snatched from her Guatemalan mother, because the two countries had not signed the Hague Abduction...More >>
A Ugandan army official says Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border.More >>
Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an army official said, in what an analyst said was an...More >>
Bass player and songwriter Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.More >>
Bass player and songwriter Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.More >>
A gunman shot dead a top member of the Afghan peace council Sunday in Kabul, police said. The assassination strikes another blow to efforts to negotiate a political resolution to the decade-long war.More >>
A gunman in a car assassinated a former high-ranking Taliban official working to end the decade-long war in Afghanistan, dealing a powerful blow Sunday to the fragile, U.S.-backed effort to bring peace to the country.More >>
Tori Pinheiro shed tears and shared the sorrow of the loss of her boyfriend as Boston University students, faculty and officials gathered in a campus plaza to mourn three classmates studying abroad who died in a minivan...More >>
While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day.More >>
Greek socialist leader and former finance minister Evangelos Venizelos says he retains "limited but existing" optimism for the possibility of an agreement to form a coalition government, despite meetings with political...More >>
Marathon efforts to break Greece's post-electoral paralysis are lurching into a ninth day amid the country's worst crisis in decades, with fractious party leaders summoned to yet another emergency meeting Tuesday...More >>
Greek party leaders are to resume power-sharing talks Monday as negotiations to create a government drag into a second week, raising the specter of fresh elections that could threaten the crisis-stricken country's...More >>
Marathon efforts to break Greece's post-electoral paralysis are lurching into a ninth day amid the country's worst crisis in decades, with fractious party leaders summoned to yet another emergency meeting Tuesday...More >>
Bolivia's principal privately owned airline, AeroSur, was down to a single domestic route Monday and hoping for an infusion of capital to stave off bankruptcy.More >>
Bolivia's principal privately owned airline, AeroSur, was down to a single domestic route Monday and hoping for an infusion of capital to stave off bankruptcy.More >>
Some former Haitian soldiers who want to be soldiers again say they met with President Michel Martelly while he ran for office and he promised them he would restore the military.More >>
The leaders of a band of armed men pressing for the return of Haiti's military met with President Michel Martelly while he was a candidate in hopes that he would bring back the army, a former sergeant said Monday.More >>
Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the U.S., a region where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling...More >>
Authorities struggled Monday to identify 49 bodies without heads, hands or feet to gain clues into the latest in a series of massacres from an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels, with increasing...More >>
The legal battles of Argentina's vice president just got a lot more complicated. A prosecutor says he has found sufficient cause to ask a federal judge to open an illegal enrichment probe against Amado Boudou. Also...More >>
Influence peddling and money laundering allegations haven't been enough to topple Argentina's vice president, Amado Boudou. On Monday, illegal enrichment accusations were added to the mix when a federal prosecutor...More >>
Gunmen surrounded villages in northeast Nigeria and set them ablaze, killing at least 12 people and wounding 48 others in violence that could spread as attackers remain hiding in the rural region, the Nigerian Red Cross said...More >>
Gunmen surrounded villages in northeast Nigeria and set them ablaze, killing at least 12 people and wounding 48 others in violence that could spread as attackers remain hiding in the rural region, the Nigerian Red Cross said...More >>
Venezuela's top diplomat says U.S. officials must turn over a former Venezuelan Supreme Court justice whose flight to the United States has angered President Hugo Chavez's government.More >>
Venezuela's top diplomat says U.S. officials must turn over a former Venezuelan Supreme Court justice whose flight to the United States has angered President Hugo Chavez's government.More >>
A resident in the northern Malian city of Gao says Islamists smashed TV sets that were being used to play video games or watch programs considered un-Islamic, in a further attempt to impose Shariah law there.More >>
A resident in the northern Malian city of Gao says Islamists smashed TV sets that were being used to play video games or watch programs considered un-Islamic, in a further attempt to impose Shariah law there.More >>
A Mexican-registered plane carrying two men, a large amount of cash and a dog crashed in Ecuador, and officials said Monday that the aircraft had not filed a flight plan and they suspected the money might be related to drug...More >>
A leading Egyptian presidential candidate lashed out Monday at an Islamist lawmaker who accused him of graft, treating voters to a new spectacle in an already unprecedentedly heated campaign.More >>
A leading Egyptian presidential candidate lashed out Monday at an Islamist lawmaker who accused him of graft, treating voters to a new spectacle in an already unprecedentedly heated campaign.More >>
As some of the world's most glamorous women prepare for the Cannes Film Festival later this week, Karl Lagerfeld has shown again that he's a step ahead of the game on the Riviera's red carpet.More >>
As some of the world's most glamorous women prepare for the Cannes Film Festival later this week, Karl Lagerfeld has shown again that he's a step ahead of the game on the Riviera's red carpet.More >>
Activists say Syrian troops have shelled the rebel-held central town of Rastan.More >>
Firing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, Lebanese gunmen clashed in street battles Monday as sectarian tensions linked to the 14-month-old uprising in Syria bled across the border for a third day.More >>
The United States says it has been holding intense negotiations with Pakistan to get the country to reopen its border to supplies meant for NATO troops in Afghanistan.More >>
Pakistan's foreign minister suggested Monday that the country should reopen its Afghan border to NATO troop supplies, saying the government has made its point by closing the route for nearly six months in retaliation for...More >>
Gulf Arab envoys are gathering in Saudi Arabia to discuss proposals for greater political and security cooperation in the wake of an Arab Spring uprising in Bahrain and worries about regional rival Iran.More >>
Gulf Arab states said Monday they would delay any decisions on proposals for closer political and security ties, showing possible signs of internal discord over measures portrayed as potential shields against regional rival...More >>
Ratko Mladic has appealed for a six-month delay in the start of his Yugoslav war crimes trial, saying delays by prosecutors in disclosing evidence could lead to a miscarriage of justice.More >>
Ratko Mladic appealed Monday for a six-month delay in the start of his Yugoslav war crimes trial, saying delays by prosecutors in disclosing evidence could lead to a miscarriage of justice.More >>
Indications are mounting that the tomb of a reputed mobster is to be removed from a Rome church as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of...More >>
Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage...More >>
American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.More >>
American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.More >>
A Turkish journalist who was held captive in Syria for two months says he was intensely interrogated by Syrian authorities who suspected he was a spy.More >>
A Turkish journalist who was held captive in Syria for two months said Monday that he was intensely interrogated while blindfolded by Syrian authorities who suspected he was a spy and wondered why his government was trying...More >>
Mali's junta leader says the country will hold a national convention to choose who will run the country until new elections can be held.More >>
West Africa's regional bloc threatened Monday to re-impose sanctions on Mali, saying that the junta's actions "appear clearly designed to disrupt the political transition" after a coup in the West African nation.More >>
Witnesses say at least seven police officers have been killed in northeast Nigeria in separate attacks likely carried out by a radical Islamist sect operating in the region.More >>
Gunmen surrounded villages in northeast Nigeria and set them ablaze, killing at least 12 people and wounding 48 others in violence that could spread as attackers remain hiding in the rural region, the Nigerian Red Cross said...More >>
The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine has met with imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and renewed criticism of the country over her treatment.More >>
The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine has met with imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and renewed criticism of the country over her treatment.More >>
An earthquake has shaken down walls and knocked out electricity in parts of far-northern Chile. No injuries have been reported, though.More >>
A magnitude-6.2 magnitude earthquake damaged walls, shattered windows and knocked out electricity in parts of far-northern Chile and the Peruvian city of Tacna but no injuries or major damage were reported.More >>
Egyptian security officials have raided the offices of an Iranian TV station and confiscated its equipment for allegedly operating without permits.More >>
An Egyptian presidential candidate has opened fire at an Islamist lawmaker who accused him of graft - further raising the tempo in an already unprecedentedly heated presidential campaign.More >>
Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias says he will not seek re-election because there is little hope the ethnically split island will be reunified by the time his tenure expires in February.More >>
Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias says he will not seek re-election because there is little hope the ethnically split island will be reunified by the time his tenure expires in February.More >>
Nigeria's defense minister says his country is ready to send troops to Guinea-Bissau and Mali as part of a regional force heading to the nations recently struck by coups.More >>
Nigeria's defense minister says his country is ready to send troops to Guinea-Bissau and Mali as part of a regional force heading to the nations recently struck by coups.More >>
A senior U.N. nuclear agency official urged Iran on Monday to allow access to sites, people and documents it seeks in its probe of suspicions that Tehran conducted secret research into nuclear weapons development.More >>
Mohammed al-Gherari lost five family members, including a young niece and nephew, when NATO accidentally struck their compound in the Libyan capital as they slept.More >>
Mohammed al-Gherari lost five family members, including a young niece and nephew, when NATO accidentally struck their compound in the Libyan capital as they slept.More >>
Photographers participating in a global effort to capture human life in all its variety and moods are being urged to 'think local, think small.'More >>
Photographers participating in a global effort to capture human life in all its variety and moods are being urged to 'think local, think small.'More >>
Authorities say a bomb has exploded at a market in northern Afghanistan, killing nine people, including a local official.More >>
Hundreds of people on Monday mourned the death of a former high-ranking Taliban official who had reconciled with the Afghan government and was trying to bring peace to his homeland.More >>
Chancellor Angela Merkel is insisting that a heavy state election defeat for her party in Germany's most populous region won't weaken her as she grapples with a deepening European debt crisis.More >>
German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted Monday that a heavy state election defeat for her party won't weaken her as she grapples with Europe's deepening debt crisis.More >>
A Swede charged with three counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted murder in a string of shootings that spread fear among immigrants in the city of Malmo pleaded not guilty as his trial started Monday.More >>
A Swede charged with three counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted murder in a string of shootings that spread fear among immigrants in the city of Malmo pleaded not guilty as his trial started Monday.More >>
Myanmar has tightened security for the official visit of President Lee Myung-bak, the first by a South Korean leader since an assassination attempt by North Korean commandos nearly 30 years ago.More >>
Myanmar tightened security for a visit by President Lee Myung-bak on Monday, the first by a South Korean leader since an assassination attempt by North Korean commandos nearly 30 years ago.More >>
Yemeni military officials say 42 people have been killed in heavy clashes between the army and al-Qaida-linked militants in the country's south.More >>
Yemeni government forces pounded al-Qaida targets on Monday, killing at least 16 militants in the troubled south where the army is trying to uproot the terror group, military officials said.More >>
A Swede charged with three counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted murder in a string of shootings that spread fear among immigrants in the city of Malmo pleaded not guilty as his trial started Monday.More >>
A Swede charged with three counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted murder in a string of shootings that spread fear among immigrants in the city of Malmo pleaded not guilty as his trial started Monday.More >>
Just as they stashed away their winter clothes and started forgetting last winter's heavy snowfall, Bosnians are again looking for shovels after waking up to a blanket of snow in the middle of an otherwise unusually hot...More >>
Sunbathing one day, snowstorm the next: Bosnians are getting whiplash from the latest crazy weather to hit the Balkans.More >>
An official says a water buffalo injured 10 people in central Vietnam while it rampaged through crowded streets, across a river and through a house before being gunned down at a kindergarten.More >>
A water buffalo injured 10 people in central Vietnam while rampaging down crowded streets, across a river and through a house before being gunned down at a kindergarten, an official said Monday.More >>
Police says a plane with 21 people on board has crashed in Nepal's mountainous north.More >>
A plane crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal on Monday, killing 15 people and injuring six, some critically.More >>
The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks.More >>
The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks.More >>
One of the most powerful men on the Taliban council, Agha Jan Motasim, nearly lost his life in a hail of bullets for advocating a negotiated settlement that would bring a broad-based government to his beleaguered homeland of...More >>
One of the most powerful men on the Taliban council, Agha Jan Motasim, nearly lost his life in a hail of bullets for advocating a negotiated settlement that would bring a broad-based government to his beleaguered homeland of...More >>
EU foreign ministers are considering a possible boycott of this year's European football championship matches in Ukraine to protest the alleged abuse of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.More >>
European Union foreign ministers were debating on Monday whether to boycott this year's European soccer championship matches played in Ukraine to protest alleged abuse of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.More >>
The trial against a Swede charged with three counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted murder in a string of shootings that spread fear among immigrants in the city of Malmo has started.More >>
A Swede charged with three counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted murder in a string of shootings that spread fear among immigrants in the city of Malmo pleaded not guilty as his trial started Monday.More >>
Asian shares rose on some optimism about the regional economy Monday after a move by China's central bank over the weekend to encourage lending and curtail a slowdown.More >>
World stock markets fell Monday as optimism over a move by China's central bank to encourage lending were offset by lingering uncertainty about crisis-struck Greece.More >>
China accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings.More >>
China accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings.More >>
Congress is examining the security risks to passenger planes from the so-called insider threat, terrorists who quietly get at airports so they can attack from within sensitive areas. There has never been such an instance,...More >>
Congress is examining the security risks to passenger planes from the so-called insider threat, terrorists who quietly get jobs at airports so they can attack from within sensitive areas. There has never been such an...More >>
The girlfriend of a former neo-Nazi who allegedly killed her and three others had told police that he choked her but declined to have him removed from her home in a Phoenix suburb two months before the fatal shooting.More >>
The girlfriend of a former neo-Nazi who allegedly killed her and three others had told police that he choked her but declined to have him removed from her home in a Phoenix suburb two months before the fatal shooting.More >>
Facebook's owners now plan to sell 25 percent more shares in the company as investors clamor for shares in the year's hottest stock offering.More >>
Facebook insiders will be unloading more of their shares in the initial public offering, the company said Wednesday, as they take advantage of investor demand.More >>
Farmworker women across the United States are commonly sexual harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration status makes them fearful of calling police, according to a report being released Wednesday by Human...More >>
Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration status makes them fearful of calling police, according to a report being released Wednesday by Human...More >>
A retired state judge supported by marijuana advocates has defeated a former federal prosecutor in a Democratic primary race for attorney general that focused on Oregon's medical marijuana law.More >>
A retired state judge supported by marijuana advocates has defeated a former federal prosecutor in a Democratic primary race for attorney general that focused on Oregon's medical marijuana law.More >>
A jury handling the voyeurism case against a missing Utah woman's father-in-law is restarting deliberations.More >>
A jury handling the voyeurism case against a missing Utah woman's father-in-law will restart deliberations Wednesday, a day after struggling to reach a verdict and asking a question about the key evidence gathered in the...More >>
Syrian forces are targeting medical workers and patients who were wounded in the 14-month-old conflict, forcing doctors to scramble to help the injured in makeshift clinics, an international aid agency warned Tuesday.More >>
A team of international observers was evacuated Wednesday from a tense town in northern Syria a day after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, a U.N. spokesman said.More >>
Firefighters have been working to prevent a wildfire near the historic mining town of Crown King from spreading to an area where it could quickly grow.More >>
Firefighters were working to prevent a wildfire near the historic mining town of Crown King from spreading to an area where it could quickly grow.More >>
A groom whose bride had sought to keep their impending wedding secret from most of her family is wanted on a murder charge after his new wife was found stabbed to death.More >>
A groom whose bride had sought to keep their impending wedding secret from most of her family is wanted on a murder charge after his new wife was found stabbed to death in a bathtub in her suburban Chicago home.More >>
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