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Juror dismissed in Bell, Calif, corruption case
A weeping juror was dismissed Thursday for committing misconduct during deliberations in the public corruption trial of six former officials of the ...
Floods endanger 2 dams in Macedonia
Two dams in Macedonia are in danger of collapsing because of extensive flooding caused by four days of torrential rain, while authorities were ...
3 dead in Swiss workplace shooting
A longtime employee opened fire at a wood-processing company in central Switzerland on Wednesday, leaving three people dead, including the assailant, ...
Fire at illegal market In India kills at least 19
A fire broke out at an illegal six-story plastics market in the Indian city of Kolkata early Wednesday, killing at least 19 people, police said.
Britain agrees to scrap new tax in Turks & Caicos
The U.K. government has reluctantly agreed to plans scrapping a widely unpopular value-added tax in the Turks & Caicos Islands, relieving local ...
Mexico says 26,121 missing during drug war
An official count shows at least 26,121 people were reported missing during the term of President Felipe Calderon, who launched the country's ...
Vatican blasts 'false' pre-conclave reporting
The Vatican lashed out Saturday at the media for what it said has been a run of defamatory and false reports before the conclave to elect Pope ...
Talk of peace with Pakistan Taliban angers victims
Hazratullah Khan, who lost his right leg below the knee in a car bombing, answers immediately when asked whether the Pakistani government should hold ...
More than 200 kidnapped Syrian villagers released
Gunmen from rival Sunni and Shiite Muslim villages in northern Syria have freed more than 200 people snatched in tit-for-tat kidnappings this month, ...
Pakistan arrests former head of banned Sunni group
Authorities on Friday arrested a founder of a banned Sunni extremist group from a town in central Pakistan, less than a week after the organization ...
Vatican feuds, fiefdoms, betrayals await next pope
If evidence was ever needed that the next pope must urgently overhaul the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, the scandal over Pope ...
5 free things to do in Dublin to keep travel cheap
Dublin isn't cheap. But the flat, compact Irish capital is exceptionally walkable, with a wide range of free attractions easily reached on foot from ...
Egypt rights groups allege rising police brutality
Egyptian rights groups alleged Wednesday that police abuse and brutality are on the rise in detention centers and at demonstrations, which have ...
Lima's reformist mayor battles to stay in office
After becoming the first woman ever elected to run Peru's capital, Susana Villaran did what no modern predecessor had dared: She tried to bring order ...
Pope considers new conclave rules, date uncertain
Pope Benedict XVI may enact a new law governing the upcoming conclave to elect a new pope amid continued uncertainty over when the voting can begin.
South Africa academic to form new party
Academic and co-founder of South Africa's Black Conscious Movement, Mamphela Ramphele, announced the creation of a new political party Monday "to ...
Series of bombings in Baghdad area kill dozens
Car bombs tore through shopping areas within minutes of each other in mainly Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 37 ...
Pope blesses huge crowd in St. Peter's Square
His arms outstretched in a symbolic embrace, Pope Benedict XVI blessed tens of thousands of cheering people on Sunday in one of his last appearances ...
Shiites lash out after Pakistan bombing kills 81
Members of the Pakistani Shiite Hazara community Sunday threatened to hold widespread protests if the government did not arrest within 48 hours the ...
French, Malian forces take control of Bourem
Hundreds of French and Malian soldiers have retaken the jihadist stronghold of Bourem, a town where many radical Islamic fighters were believed to ...
Meteor-broken windows in Russian city being fixed
Authorities in a Russian city say more than half of the acres of windows smashed in the city by an exploding meteor's shock wave have been replaced.
Death toll in Pakistani bombing climbs to 81
The death toll from a horrific bombing that tore through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of southwestern Pakistan ...
Egypt: Islamists rally in Cairo against opposition
Several thousand hard-line Islamists rallied in Cairo on Friday against a recent wave of violent anti-government protests, while liberal activists ...