ROME (AP):The judge who presided over Amanda Knox's second murder conviction says he suffered over the verdict, but that he and the jury reached agreement that she was guilty in the death of British student Meredith Kercher.
SEATTLE (AP):To some Americans, especially those in her hometown of Seattle, Amanda Knox seems a victim, unfairly hounded by a capricious legal system in Italy that convicted her last week in the death of a 21-year-old British woman.
At the end of the week-long conference in Geneva the United Nations envoy said he had seen a little bit of common ground between government delegates and the opposition.
WASHINGTON (AP):EVEN PROPONENTS of President Barack Obama's new retirement savings programme readily concede it won't be a cure-all for a nation of people who are saving far too little for their golden years.
ATLANTA (AP):THE SNOW and sleet had stopped falling and traffic was moving again around Atlanta following a crippling storm - but officials warned that ice-covered roads remained a threat for drivers Thursday morning.State officials were concerned with...
KIEV, Ukraine (AP):UKRAINE'S EMBATTLED president is taking sick leave, his office said Thursday, a surprise development that left unclear how efforts to resolve the country's political crisis would move forward.
LONDON (AP):The face of London is about to change.Dozens of buildings of 20 storeys or more are under construction or planned along the south bank of the River Thames just upstream from Big Ben and the majestic dome of St Paul's Cathedral.
President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address Tuesday night to make his pitch that the nation must come together to address persistent problems, from the wealth gap between rich and poor to economic mobility to lagging schools.
Clinton foundation to get honour - NEW YORK (AP):BILL CLINTON made major changes to his diet after heart trouble, and now his foundation is getting an honour for helping in the battle against heart disease.Woman's Day is holding its Red Dress...
AP:United States health officials were to board a cruise ship docked in the United States Virgin Islands to investigate an illness outbreak that has stricken at least 300 people with gastrointestinal symptoms, including vomiting and diarrhea, a cruise...
MOGADISHU (AP): A member of Somali rebel group al-Shabab was killed yesterday by a missile fired by a suspected drone, a rebel commander said, blaming the United States (US) for the strike...
The International Monetary Fund's managing director warned yesterday of the risks posed to global economic recovery from the reduction of the United States Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus and falling prices in the eurozone.
Someone armed with a gun opened fire at a busy shopping mall in suburban Baltimore, Maryland, yesterday. Three people died, including the person believed to be the shooter, police said.
As Egyptians marked the third anniversary of their spectacular revolt against autocrat Hosni Mubarak in the name of democracy yesterday, there has been a powerful sign of the country's stunning reversals since: letters of despair by some of the prominent activists who helped lead the uprising, leaked from the prisons where they are now jailed.
The painstaking search through the iced-over remains of a burned-out Quebec retirement home resumed yesterday morning, with friends and relatives of the missing awaiting news. Just eight bodies of the 32 presumed dead had been recovered.
