KABUL (AP):Three militants wearing explosives-rigged vests killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack yesterday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan.
MOSCOW (AP):National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has a place to live in Russia after being granted temporary asylum, but he still hasn't decided what he wants to do next, his lawyer said last Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP):At least 21 United States embassies and consulates across the Muslim world will remain closed today after the State Department issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans Friday about the threat of an al-Qaida attack.
The State Department warned American citizens of the potential for terrorism particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, with a possible attack occurring or coming from the Arabian Peninsula.
He blamed a sex addiction, his former wife and even the FBI for not thoroughly investigating the abductions while claiming most of the sex was consensual and that the women were never tortured.
Ahmed Ibrahim was found guilty of inciting violence against rebels during the 2011 uprising. A judge reportedly found he had urged Sirte residents to form armed gangs and fight the rebels.
DETROIT (AP): United States (US) border agents say they found marijuana on a bus with singer Justin Bieber's tour as it crossed into Detroit from Windsor, Canada.The Detroit Free Press reported that US Customs and Border Protection spokesman Ken Hammond...
WASHINGTON:President Barack Obama, seeking to break Washington's fiscal stalemate, is proposing cutting corporate tax rates in exchange for more spending on jobs programmes.
MADRID (AP) :The driver of the train that derailed and killed 79 people in Spain was on the phone and travelling at 95 mph (153 kph) - almost twice the speed limit - when the crash happened last week, according to a preliminary investigation released...
In Spain's worst rail accident in decades, preliminary investigation released today revealed that the driver was on the phone when the crash happened last week.
INDIANAPOLIS: An Indianapolis congregation on Sunday mourned the deaths of their youth pastor, his pregnant wife and another member who were killed when a church bus overturned with just a mile to go in a return trip from a Michigan summer camp.
Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media baron and former premier, sometimes quipped that he was running out of money after two decades of steadily paying millions of euros to a stable of Italy's leading lawyers to defend him in a raft of criminal cases.
ROME (AP):An Italian tour bus plowed through cars, crashed through the side wall of a highway bridge and plunged into a ravine, killing at least 38 people, authorities said Monday.Rescuers wielding electric saws cut through the twisted...
TRIPOLI: Two large explosions hit courthouses in the city of Benghazi late Sunday, leaving part of one of the buildings a pile of rubble, two security officials said.
BOSTON: Lawyers for reputed gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger have kicked off his defence by calling a former FBI supervisor who testified that Bulger told him he was not an FBI informant.
The driver of the Spanish train that derailed at high speed killing 79 people has been provisionally charged with multiple cases of negligent homicide.
HIALEAH, Florida (AP):A gunman holding hostages inside a south Florida apartment complex killed six people before being shot to death by a SWAT team that stormed the building early yesterday following an hours-long stand-off, police said.
