Two US firefighters shot dead in arson 'trap'
A convicted felon shot dead two firefighters and wounded two others Monday after luring them to a blaze that police said he had apparently set as a trap in a small town in New York state.
25 December 2012
Afghan policewoman shoots dead foreign adviser
A female Afghan police officer on Monday shot dead a foreign civilian adviser in Kabul police headquarters, officials said, in the first "insider" attack to be carried out by a woman.
24 December 2012
More than 20,000 missing under Calderon: report
More than 20,000 people have disappeared in Mexico over the past six years of a brutal crackdown on drugs during the government of former president Felipe Calderon.
23 December 2012
Canada adds elite Iranian force to terror list
Canada added Iran's Quds Force to a list of terrorist groups on Thursday, saying the elite special operations unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard had been arming the Taliban, Hamas and others.
22 December 2012
Oil thieves caught in south Kazakhstan
Members of an organized criminal group stealing oil from Kumkol-Shymkent pipeline were apprehended in South-Kazakhstan oblast.
Chile journalists probing Pinochet abuses 'intimidated'
Chilean reporters investigating human rights violations under general Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship say their homes were broken into as part of a campaign of intimidation over their work.
World leaders express shock over latest US shooting
World leaders expressed shock and horror after a gunman massacred 20 small children and six teachers Friday in the US state of Connecticut, in one of the worst school shootings in history.
17 December 2012
Iran sympathises after 'tragic' US school shooting
Iran was quick on Saturday to express condolences after the "tragic" shooting rampage that left 26 people dead, including 20 small children, at an elementary school in the United States.
15 December 2012
20 kids, 6 adults massacred in US school
A heavily armed young gunman slaughtered 20 small children and six adults at a school in an idyllic Connecticut town on Friday, in one of the worst mass shootings in US history.
McAfee back in US after Guatemala expulsion
Computer software pioneer John McAfee was back on American soil Wednesday after being expelled from Guatemala, escaping immediate deportation to Belize for questioning over his neighbor's murder.