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Digicel accused of interfering in electoral processST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC):Opposition Leader Lester Bird yesterday accused Irish communications firm Digicel of interfering in Antigua and Barbuda's electoral process.Bird, in his weekly radio broadcast,...

Eight suspects arrested in connection to the brutal torture of two teenage boys and a man in an anti-gay attack are facing charges including robbery, assault and unlawful imprisonment as hate crimes.

EIJING (AP) — An imprisoned Chinese dissident who won this year's Nobel Peace Prize was allowed to meet Sunday with his wife and told her in tears that he was dedicating the award to victims of a 1989 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for using nonviolence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland. The award ignited a furious response from China.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday killed a decades-in-the-making train tunnel connecting New Jersey and Manhattan, saying the state can't afford to pay for cost overruns on the underway project.

JOHANNESBURG (AP): United Nations (UN) officials celebrated the arrest of a Congolese militia commander accused in mass rapes of more than 300 people, but it was an easy and rare catch, the man had been handed over by his fellow fighters....

Gambia has introduced harsher penalties for drug crimes, including execution for anyone found holding more than 250 grams of cocaine or heroin.

The private college that expelled a student who wore a short, pink dress to class has been ordered to pay her more than US$20,000 in compensation, a court announced Wednesday.

Three men survived four hours floating in rough seas off the northwest Australia coast after their boat collided with what they believe was a whale and sank, officials said Wednesday.

The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims.

US President Barack Obama is to install solar panels on the White House roof, a move lauded by climate activists as symbolic of the nation's energy future.