RCMP Assistant Commissioner James Malizia said the two men had "direction and guidance" from "al-Qaida elements located in Iran," though there was no reason to think the planned attacks were state-spo
If he is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill people, he could face the death penalty. Tsarnaev is in hospital, unable to speak because of a wound to the throat.
NEW DELHI (AP):The condition of a five-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped, raped and tortured by a man and then left alone in a locked room in India's capital for two days has improved...
BOSTON (AP):As the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay hospitalised under heavy guard, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a federal public defender raised concerns...
CHICAGO (AP):An Illinois teenager who was friends with a man charged last year with trying to bomb a Chicago bar was arrested at an airport on his way to try to join a terrorist group in war-torn Syria, the FBI said on the weekend.Abdella Ahmad Tounisi...
MANILA (AP):Officials say communist rebels ambushed the convoy of a city mayor and wife of the Philippines' former Vice-president Teofisto Guingona Jr, killing two of her aides and wounding a police escort.Chief Superintendent Generoso Cerbo...
GRAND TURK (CMC): The head investigator in a British government's probe of corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands says former Premier Michael Misick will stand trial.
SAO PAULO (AP): A jury has found 23 Brazilian police officers guilty of killing 13 inmates during the 1992 riot at Sao Paulo's Carandiru prison that left 111 inmates dead.
PANAMA CITY (CMC): The Inter-American Deve-lopment Bank (IDB) has launched the second call for proposals for civil-society organisations to carry out activities focused on poverty reduction and social inclusion and development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The American Civil Liberties Union and a federal public defender raised concerns about investigators' plan to question 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights.
Senior US officials say members of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group are waiting at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston as Tsarnaev recovers.
The quake, while not as destructive as the one in 2008, toppled buildings, triggered landslides and disrupted phone and power connections in the mountainous Lushan county.
Officials say 19-year-old college student Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found in a boat stored in Watertown, by police officers who rushed into the neighbourhood in armoured vehicles and tactical gear.
Police are locking down some neighborhoods in Boston and its western suburbs as they search for the remaining suspect: known as the man in the white hat from marathon surveillance footage.
CALIFORNIA, SANTA ANA (AP):The estranged husband of a woman charged with severing his penis said it was as though his life ended the evening of the attack."She murdered me that night," the man said Wednesday on the first day of the trial of Catherine...
TEXAS, WEST (AP):Rescue workers searched the smouldering ruins of a fertiliser plant yesterday for survivors of a monstrous explosion that levelled homes and businesses in every direction across the Texas prairie.
BOSTON (AP):Investigators in the Boston Marathon bombing pressed the search yesterday for one or more potential suspects spotted on video, while President Barack Obama paid a visit under heavy security...
Attorney Christi R. McCoy said Curtis "maintains 100 per cent that he did not do this." "I know Kevin, I know his family," she said. "This is a huge shock."
