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UNITED STATES (AP):A look at the career of teacher William Vahey, regarded by the FBI as one of the most prolific paedophiles in memory:August 1969: Arrested for allegedly molesting eight boys, ages seven through nine, while teaching beginner's swim...

TEL AVIV (AP):Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for his role in a wide-ranging bribery case, capping a stunning fall from grace for one of the most powerful men in the country and marking the climax...

BRIDGETOWN (CMC):Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have condemned the kidnapping of hundreds of school children in Nigeria by members of the militant Islamic group Boko Haram last month.They have joined the international community in demanding ...

Nigeria says it will not agree to a request to free imprisoned Islamic militants in return for the release of dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls.

LAGOS, (AP)A new video from Nigeria's Boko Haram purports to show schoolgirls, covered in hijab and reciting prayers in Arabic, who are being held captive by the Islamic extremists.The girls are seated on the ground, barefooted; the first video evidence...

A new video from Nigeria's Boko Haram purports to show schoolgirls, covered in hijab and reciting prayers in Arabic, who are being held captive by the Islamic extremists.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP):A leading Nigerian rights group is urging the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on the Islamic extremists that abducted some 300 schoolgirls, saying concern and condemnation are not enough.A statement yesterday from...

The Syrian opposition and its Western allies have denounced the June 3 election as a sham designed to lend Assad, who is widely expected to win another sevenyear term, a veneer of electoral legitimacy

MEXICO CITY (AP):A magnitude-6.0 earthquake jolted people from their beds in western and central Mexico yesterday, but officials say they've received no reports of major damage or injuries from the early-morning shake.

YOLA, (AP):Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer in northeast Nigeria, residents said yesterday as an international effort got under way to rescue 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants.

CAIRO (AP):Egypt's chief prosecutor charged 200 suspected militants yesterday with carrying out terrorist attacks that killed 40 policeman and 15 civilians and of conspiring with Palestinian militant group Hamas in one of Egypt's largest...