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New Orleans police say that a dozen people have been shot during a Mother's Day second-line parade.

The bodies of a woman and her 13-year-old son were found after a dayslong standoff, and her boyfriend was killed as officers stormed the home to rescue three other children he had been holding captive

MEXICO CITY (AP):Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City after a violent dispute in a bar, Mexican authorities said last Friday.

SEOUL (AP):A South Korean presidential spokesman, who was dismissed for what officials called a "disgraceful incident" while accompanying President Park Geun-hye on a visit to the United States, has denied reports that he sexually molested ...

Efrain Rios Montt has been sentenced to 80 years for the genocide of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans from 1982-1983 while he was in power.

John Ruiz, a member of the California-based activist organisation Rumec, alleges that the 28-year-old was beaten to death having met with fellow activist Miguel Suarez.

Ariel Castro looked down at the ground for almost the entire court proceeding, biting his collar and signing documents with his handcuffed hands. He didn't speak. Bond was set at $8 million.

LONDON (AP):British authorities yesterday announced plans to toughen immigration laws as the government tried to regain the initiative after spectacular electoral gains last week by a populist party that wants to curb...

UNITED NATIONS (AP):The UN says that Congolese troops fleeing the M23 rebels last November raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as six.A UN report released yesterday by the UN Joint Human Rights...

Arias was charged in the June 2008 killing of Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home.

The Queen's Speech, which is to be delivered by Queen Elizabeth, will include a parliamentary bill aimed at making it easier to deport foreign criminals and those who enter the UK illegally.

BOSTON (AP): A funeral director says he has received burial offers for more than 100 out-of-state graves for the body of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect who was killed in a gun battle with police but none are panning out, even as Tamerlan Tsarnaev's mother told him she wants the body returned to Russia.