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Shot Armenia presidential hopeful seeks vote delay
The shooting of a presidential candidate threw Armenia's election into disarray Friday, with the wounded victim saying he will call for a delay of the ...
Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey
In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a ...
Sweden orders retrial for convicted serial killer
Once considered Sweden's worst serial killer, Sture Bergwall confessed to more than 30 murders over three decades, and was convicted of eight of them.
Minister: Iceland refused to help FBI on WikiLeaks
Iceland's interior minister said Friday that he ordered the country's police not to cooperate with FBI agents sent to investigate WikiLeaks two years ...
Canadian officer apologizes to family for spying
A Canadian navy intelligence officer who pleaded guilty to selling military secrets to Russia apologized to his family and children for the pain he ...
Milan court convicts 3 Americans in CIA kidnapping
A Milan appeals court on Friday vacated acquittals for a former CIA station chief and two other Americans, and instead convicted them in the 2003 ...
18 killed in northeast Nigeria military raid
Nigerian soldiers attacked training camps for suspected members of the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram deep in a game reserve in the nation's restive ...
Vatican dismisses Iranian link to pope shooting
The Vatican is dismissing Mehmet Ali Agca's latest claim about who ordered him to assassinate Pope John Paul II. The Turkish gunman, who has changed ...
Bungling hit men convicted of schoolboy's murder
Two bungling British hit men who went to the wrong address and stabbed a teenager to death instead of their intended victim were convicted of murder ...
Teenage hacker sentenced in UK for cyber-attacks
A British court has sentenced a teenage hacker to youth rehabilitation after he and other members of the Anonymous movement carried out cyber-attacks ...
Spanish economy minister to testify in bank probe
Spain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos has been called by the National Court to testify in a probe into alleged fraud at one of the country's major ...
British detective jailed in phone-hacking scandal
A senior British counterterrorism detective was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for trying to sell information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the ...
TeliaSonera boss quits over Uzbekistan allegations
The chief executive of TeliaSonera resigned Friday after an independent review on alleged bribery by the telecoms company found it had failed to ...
Liverpool's Sterling charged with assaulting woman
Liverpool winger Raheem Sterling has been charged with assaulting a woman. Police say the 27-year-old woman, who is known to the footballer, was ...
9 judges charged with Philly traffic ticket fixing
Get caught speeding? Running a red light? Leaving the scene of an accident? For years, it was no problem, authorities say — so long as you were in ...
China punishes Tibetans in self-immolation cases
Chinese courts convicted eight Tibetans over accusations they incited others to self-immolate in the first such prosecutions to become publicly known, ...
John Paul II's gunman says Iran behind '81 attempt
The Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II has changed his story once again, saying in a new autobiography that Iran's late leader Ayatollah ...
Attacked Algeria gas plant to partly resume work
The Algerian gas plant that was the scene of a hostage crisis that left dozens of foreigners and militants dead will soon be partially operational, ...
Egypt's police regain Mubarak-era notoriety
With near impunity and the backing of the Islamist president, Egyptian police have been accused of firing wildly at protesters, beating them and ...
Sept. 11 judge rules on censor but little else
The second round of pretrial hearings in the Sept. 11 case sputtered to a close Thursday with the judge ordering the government to remove censorship ...
FACT CHECK: Gun-control claims miss target
The intensifying gun-control debate has given rise to sloppy claims on both sides. Here's a sampling, with the first two examples from the Senate ...