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Paterno's widow: We were ignorant of sex predators
Joe Paterno's widow said Wednesday that she and her husband were ignorant about sexual predators like Jerry Sandusky and did not realize that the ...
Luxembourg agrees to help fight tax cheats
Luxembourg is to start exchanging information with the rest of Europe to help fight tax evasion, the government said Wednesday in a move it hopes will ...
Judge fines Costa $1.3M for Concordia wreck
A judge in Tuscany fined Italian cruise line Costa Crociere SpA 1 million euros ($1.3 million) Wednesday for the 2012 shipwreck of the Concordia ...
2 plead guilty to UK terror plot
Two men accused of planning an al-Qaida-inspired terrorist attack intended to be bigger than the 2005 London transit bombings have pleaded guilty in ...
Mother suspected of killing 3 newborns in Poland
Prosecutors in northern Poland on Wednesday were questioning a woman suspected of killing her three newborn boys whose bodies were found in the ...
Cuba turning over Florida couple and children
Cuba on Tuesday said it will hand over to the United States a Florida couple who allegedly kidnapped their two young sons from the mother's parents ...
Mexico investigates officials in Frenchwoman case
Mexico's prosecutor for human rights says it has begun investigating former high-ranking law enforcement officials who were involved in the case of ...
Prosecutor paints Jodi Arias as manipulative liar
The prosecutor in Jodi Arias' murder trial worked Tuesday to portray the defendant as a manipulative liar as he questioned a defense witness' ...
Rockefeller impostor murder case goes to jury
A murder case against a notorious Rockefeller impostor was turned over to a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday after the prosecutor implored the panel to ...
BP executive: Safety was top priority before blast
A BP executive who oversaw the company's Gulf of Mexico operations testified Tuesday that he led a push to improve safety when he started the job more ...
Man kills 13 people in Serbian shooting rampage
He went from house to house in the village at dawn, cold-bloodedly gunning down his mother, his son, a 2-year-old cousin and 10 other neighbors.
Protesters accuse Putin of murdering Polish leader
About 200 Poles chanted accusations against Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, accusing the Russian leader of murdering their own President Lech Kaczynski in ...
Yugoslav wars left population heavily armed
The wars from 1991 to 1999 as Yugoslavia broke up took up to 200,000 lives, turned millions into refugees and left much of the region's people ...
UK teen police commissioner steps down over tweets
She was hired to teach local police about British youth — but it was 17-year-old Paris Brown who said she learned a lesson after her scandalous tweets ...
Dutch reporter victim of citizen arrest in Egypt
A Dutch journalist working in Egypt said she was released Tuesday from nearly 12 hours in police custody after an Egyptian vigilante arrested her and ...
Somalia president admits rapes by security forces
After months of denial, Somalia's government has for the first time acknowledged that its security forces were involved in rape cases that drew an ...
Police probe alleged racist abuse toward Kompany
Police are investigating footage to ascertain whether a fan racially abused Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany as he gave a post-match TV ...
LulzSec hacker pleads guilty to cyberattacks
A British computer hacker affiliated to the group Lulz Security pleaded guilty Tuesday to cyberattacks on institutions including Sony, Britain's ...
Austria: Ex-priest charged in 15 child abuse cases
Austrian authorities have charged a defrocked priest with sexually abusing 15 children as head of a Catholic boarding school. They say Alfons August ...
Israel court: Life sentences for Jewish radical
An Israeli court on Tuesday delivered two consecutive life sentences to a U.S.-born Jewish extremist for the murder of two Palestinians and the ...