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Pakistan's government said it is trying to identify the suicide bomber who killed at least 19 people, mostly police officers, in an attack in the capital, Islamabad, yesterday.
Today, I want to return to the issue of Detroit and write about what I consider to be a vulgar double standard local political leadership and activist demagogues use either to prevent a substantive, comprehensive critique of the town or avert real solutions to seemingly intractable big-city problems. ...
Cuba's former President Fidel Castro has called on the Colombian Farc rebel movement to release all of its remaining hostages. His comments follow the rescue of Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others on Wednesday.
Leaders of the world's richest countries began arriving in northern Japan on Sunday for a summit aimed at tackling red-hot oil and food prices that could derail global economic growth.
Michael Corby, the late father of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, was involved in the drug trade for at least three decades, it has been alleged by a family member.
WEATHERFORD, Texas - A man in Texas has been sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison for sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two years.
A State Department probe finds that in a sample of 150 famous Americans, most of their files had been viewed in the last six years; nine had been opened more than 100 times.
PORT MORESBY - Police in Papua New Guinea's Highlands' region are investigating claims a security guard forced a suspected 15-year-old female shoplifter to pay for her crime with sex.
Ricardo Gonzalez had to bring his two small children to work every day because he can’t find a baby sitter. That in itself isn’t bad, but Gonzalez went one step further: he locked his kids in a cage while he works!
The U.S. military will seek the death penalty against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, making him the first person charged in the United States for the attack on the USS Cole, an Air Force general said Monday. Al-Nashiri "helped plan and organize and direct the attacks" that killed 17 U.S. sailors while the destroyer was in Yemen in October 2000.
In a late Friday news dump, the Justice Department announced it had settled a lawsuit with Mr. Hatfill, a former military scientist whom then-Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly identified in 2002 as a "person of interest" in the investigation into the anthrax attacks in the aftermath of 9/11.
A 69-year-old grandfather has been charged with the murder of his wife and two grandchildren who died in an axe attack at a home in Cowra yesterday.
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