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Cops, British Army guided Belfast lawyer's killing
British police and army agents planted inside Northern Ireland's major Protestant gang played a pivotal role in assassinating a Belfast attorney, a ...
Russian opposition activist may be sent to Siberia
A jailed Russian opposition activist who claims he was kidnapped and tortured will remain in custody and may be sent to Siberia as part of a ...
Cayman Islands leader arrested in corruption case
The leader of the Cayman Islands' government was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of theft, abuse of office and breach of trust in the famed Caribbean ...
UK authorities arrest 3 in LIBOR rate probe
British police arrested three people Tuesday as part of their investigation into the manipulation of a key benchmark interest rate — the first British ...
Czech man investigated for Breivik t-shirts
Czech police are investigating a man for selling T-shirts featuring a portrait of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, saying they appeared ...
Argentine mom rescues hundreds of sex slaves
Susana Trimarco was a housewife who fussed over her family and paid scant attention to the news until her daughter left for a doctor's appointment and ...
UK police arrest 6th person in sex abuse probe
British police on Monday arrested another suspect in the sex abuse probe spurred by allegations against the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile.
Transgender prostitutes face abuse in Ivory Coast
It seemed like a case of simple blackmail. Late one night last month, two cars carrying around 10 soldiers pulled up to a group of prostitutes in ...
Coin hits Ferdinand, fan held for racism at derby
Crowd disorder marred the Premier League's Manchester derby on Sunday, with United defender Rio Ferdinand injured after being struck by a coin and ...
2 new arrests in French attack on Jewish school
Two arrests in southern France on Tuesday bolstered long-simmering suspicions that the country's worst terrorist killings in years involved multiple ...
Albania, Kosovo urge probe of prosecutor Del Ponte
Albania and Kosovo have called for an independent investigation into former Hague Tribunal prosecutor Carla del Ponte for her "tendentious and illegal ...
UK judge issues damning press verdict
Britain's unruly newspapers should be regulated by an independent body dominated by non-journalists with the power to levy steep fines, a judge said ...
Long scandal highlights faults of British press
Here are key developments in the phone hacking scandal involving segments of Britain's unruly press: November 2005: The News of the World tabloid ...
Arafat grave dug up for probe of poison suspicion
Eight years after Yasser Arafat's mysterious death, his political heirs opened his grave Tuesday and let forensics experts take samples from his ...
Police, FA look into anti-Semitic chants at match
English football faced another racism investigation by authorities on Monday after a Premier League match between Tottenham and West Ham was marred ...
91-year-old German charged with Nazi crimes
A 91-year-old former member of the Nazis' Waffen SS has been charged with murder in the 1944 slaying of a Dutch resistance fighter who was allegedly ...
Mark Thompson testifies at London probe into BBC
New York Times Co. CEO Mark Thompson has testified before a committee in London investigating a scandal at his former employer, the BBC, a Times ...
Germany steps up probe of mystery highway shots
German authorities on Tuesday almost quadrupled a reward for information on a four-year series of shootings at trucks loaded with cars on the ...
Turkish cameraman set free by captors in Syria
A Turkish cameraman captured by Syrian forces while covering fighting in the city of Aleppo in August has been released and will return to Turkey, the ...
Dutch hospital to lead organ trafficking probe
Medical and police authorities are launching a major international probe into the illegal trafficking in human organs for transplants, to help clamp ...
3 charged in Olympic Stadium spy probe
Three people were charged with fraud Wednesday as part of an investigation into allegations that Premier League club Tottenham spied on Olympic ...
Chelsea details race claim; Police probe dropped
Chelsea went public for the first time Tuesday with detailed racial abuse allegations against a referee, insisting there was no misunderstanding and ...
Developments in Britain's child sex-abuse scandal
The BBC's top executive, George Entwistle, resigned Saturday night amid a flood of controversy over the broadcaster's handling of child sex-abuse ...