Mass grave found near Mexico City
Authorities searched a mass grave near Mexico City on Thursday as anxious relatives braced to learn whether the remains were those of 12 young people kidnapped in May.
23 August 2013
Peruvian drug traffickers prey on young Europeans
The profile is often the same: European, often young and female, and facing hard economic choices. A perfect mark for Peruvian cocaine traffickers seeking couriers.
22 August 2013
Thieves pinch 70,000-euro ring from Cannes store
Two thieves stole a 70,000 euro ($93,000) diamond ring from a Cannes jewellery store on Tuesday, pocketing the gem while a saleslady had her back turned.
New York reports biggest ever haul of illegal guns
More than 200 firearms, from .22 caliber pistols to a submachine gun, have been seized in what New York called Monday the biggest seizure of illegal guns in the city's history.
20 August 2013
China high-flyer Bo brought low as trial finally nears
Once one of China's highest-flying politicians, Bo Xilai will find himself in a criminal dock Thursday on trial for bribery and abuse of power in the country's highest-profile prosecution in decades.
20 August 2013
Pistorius due back in court for murder of his lover
Star sprinter Oscar Pistorius returns to court in South Africa on Monday, when prosecutors will indict him for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and confirm a trial date.
19 August 2013
40 pythons found in Canadian hotel
Little more than a week after a giant python crushed two young Canadian boys to death, police have recovered 40 of the snakes from a hotel room.
17 August 2013
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Pentagon unveils new measures against sexual assaults
The Pentagon announced new measures Thursday to combat sexual assault in the military but stopped short of stripping commanders of legal authority over the criminal cases as demanded by many lawmakers.
16 August 2013
Suspects arraigned in US over global penny-stock fraud
Six people appeared in US federal courts on Wednesday in connection with what American officials are calling one of the biggest international penny stock frauds ever investigated.
15 August 2013
WikiLeaks: Manning apologizes, admits he 'hurt US'
US Army private Bradley Manning apologized on Wednesday for leaking secret intelligence files to WikiLeaks and admitted for the first time that he had harmed his country and others.
15 August 2013
Kazakhstan duo pleads not guilty to impeding Boston bombing probe
Two Kazakhstan teenagers who went to the same college with accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of impeding investigators pursuing the perpetrators of the deadly finish-line attack.
Study details 'severe' brutality against women in PNG
Women in poverty-stricken Papua New Guinea suffer "severe brutality" with violence, including savage attacks involving knives, axes and whips, occurring in two-thirds of all families.
Kazakhstan students face 20 years in Boston
The first hearing on the case of the students from Kazakhstan accused in the United States of conspiring to destroy evidences in the Boston bombings case have been scheduled for August 13.