LIMA, Peru (AP): Dutch murder defendant Joran van der Sloot has filed a complaint with Peru's police alleging interrogators violated his rights when he confessed to killing a 21-year-old Lima woman...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Venezuela's government has seized control of 11 oil rigs owned by United States driller Helmerich & Payne, arguing that drilling had to be restarted after the company halted operations in response to delayed payments from...
BRUSSELS (AP):Police raided the home and former office of the recently retired archbishop of Belgium yesterday, carrying off documents and a personal computer as part of an investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests,...
ROUEN, France (AP): A French court yesterday convicted a man, dubbed "the cannibal of Rouen", of killing his cellmate and eating part of the man's lung and sentenced him to 30 years in prison....
BAGHDAD (AP):A spate of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces and their allies killed at least 10 people yesterday, half in suicide bombings in the northern city of Mosul, officials said.The ability of insurgents to strike against Iraqi police ...
Australia\'s Julia Gillard has become the country\'s first female prime minister after former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stood aside from a party ballot.
WASHINGTON (AP):The Obama administration reaffirmed yesterday that it will begin pulling United States troops out of Afghanistan next summer, despite reservations among top generals that absolute...
FREMONT, Nebraska (AP):Angered by a recent influx of Hispanic workers attracted by jobs at local meatpacking plants, voters in a small city in the state of Nebraska will decide today whether to ban hiring ...
MEXICO CITY (AP):Hurricane Celia howled toward the open ocean, away from Mexico's Pacific coast yesterday.The first hurricane of the 2010 season had maximum sustained winds of about 75 mph (120 kph) and...
A Dutch court has sentenced five Somali men to five years in prison for attacking a cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden last year, in the first such case to come to trial in Europe.
The authorities in Venezuela say they\'ve taken control of a private bank - Banco Federal after discovering evidence of what they call serious financial problems.
A number of US soldiers from the National Guard has been sent to Puerto Rico, a US territory, to help curb a vicious crime wave in the country’s central mountains.
Gunmen trying to rob Iraq's central bank battled security forces for hours yesterday after bombs ripped through a nearby area, leaving at least 15 people dead, the Iraqi military said.
