Russian drunk driver who killed orphans sentenced
A Russian drunken driver who sparked a nationwide debate after killing seven, including five orphan children, in a road accident last year has been ...
NYC woman gets probation for stalking actress
A New York City woman has been sentenced to probation for stalking French actress Marion Cotillard on the Internet. Teresa Yuan was sentenced Tuesday ...
Irishman charged with 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing
British prosecutors have charged a 61-year-old Irishman with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen's cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike ...
Turkey: 4 sentenced over fake liquor deaths
Turkey's state-run news agency says a Turkish court has sentenced four people to 83 years in prison each for the deaths of five Russians from bootleg ...

Trial for captain in deadly shipwreck in Italy
An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship to stand trial for manslaughter in the vessel's shipwreck off the coast ...
Pussy Riot member declares hunger strike in prison
An imprisoned member of the punk band Pussy Riot says she is going on hunger strike after a judge refused to allow her to attend a court hearing where ...
Deal on bin Laden evidence in WikiLeaks case
Lawyers in the court-martial of an Army private who sent more than 700,000 classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks said Tuesday they have reached a ...

France: Drugmaker on trial, suspected in deaths
The makers of a diabetes and weight loss drug suspected in the deaths of hundreds of people went on trial Tuesday, facing charges they misled the ...

SAfrican court acquits brother of Oscar Pistorius
One Pistorius brother is free of charges — acquitted Tuesday of culpable homicide in the death of a woman in a road accident. The famous younger ...

Myanmar Muslims jailed for killing Buddhist monk
A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday — one of them to a life term — in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian ...

Guatemala top court overturns genocide conviction
Guatemala's top court has thrown another curve into the genocide case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, overturning his conviction and ordering ...
Judge tosses ex-BP executive's obstruction charge
A federal judge has dismissed a charge that is the backbone of the case against a former BP executive accused of concealing information from Congress ...

Court decision pending in NYPD stop-and-frisk case
A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a polarizing tactic ...

Arias attorneys will put one witness on: Arias
Complaining that Jodi Arias' sensational murder case has become a modern-day "witch trial," her lawyers tried to quit in the middle of the ...

Pakistan's presumptive PM calls for Taliban talks
Pakistan's presumptive prime minister called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government Monday, potentially charting a course ...
Retired Anglican priest jailed for sex abuse
A retired Church of England priest was jailed for 10 years Monday after a jury found him guilty of 36 separate sex offenses against children in the ...
Romania: 3 sentenced in corrupt real estate deal
Romania's top court has sentenced the owner of Steaua football club, the former chief of staff of the armed forces and a former defense minister to ...

AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone ...

Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges
The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders.
Prosecutors: More time to indict Boston suspect
U.S. prosecutors say they'll ask for more time to indict Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Prosecutors said Friday they will not ...