Qaeda posts video of two 9/11 hijackers
Al-Qaeda on Thursday posted an online video of two plane hijackers of the September 11, 2001 suicide attacks, which they said were part of a war to drive US forces out of the Arabian Peninsula.
Hundreds jailed by 'fake' bomb detectors in Thai south
Implicated by the wand of a "bogus" bomb detector, Hassan became one of hundreds detained in Thailand's insurgency-racked south because of equipment that experts say is useless.
Gruesome details on wartime Kosovo organ harvesting: TV
A former Kosovo rebel witness described in an interview how he removed a prisoner's heart for the black market in organs during the 1990s Kosovo conflict, Serbian RTS state television reported.
Police wait to interview key Alps shooting witness, 7
Police were on Monday waiting to question a young British girl seen as the key to solving the mystery of a shooting on a lonely forest road that left three members of her family and a cyclist dead.
10 September 2012
Thailand grapples with killer student gangs
Sweat dripping from their foreheads as they complete a set of press-ups, students at a Thai army boot camp are momentary allies, but a spate of gang shootings suggests it is an uneasy peace.
09 September 2012
All eyes on France after Alps massacre: British press
The horrific massacre of a British-Iraqi family in the French Alps dominated the front pages of Britain's newspapers on Friday with the performance of French investigators coming under the microscope.
08 September 2012
Brazil is world's largest crack market: study
Brazil is the world's largest market for crack and the second for overall cocaine use, researchers from the Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP) said Wednesday.
06 September 2012
Chavez says no evidence of alleged Yanomami killings
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday became the latest senior official to insist there is no evidence of an alleged massacre of some 80 Yanomami indigenous people.
06 September 2012
American, United Airlines to face 9/11 trial
American Airlines and United Continental must face trial over a lawsuit in which the lease holders of the World Trade Center allege that lax security allowed hijackers to destroy the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
06 September 2012
Ecuador interior minister's brother murdered
Ecuador Interior Minister Jose Serrano said Sunday his brother had been killed by unknown attackers, but he denied that the murder was in retaliation to his own efforts to fight organized crime.
03 September 2012
US supermarket worker shoots dead two, kills self
A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style automatic rifle and a handgun shot dead two people Friday at a supermarket in a town near New York, and then shot himself.
02 September 2012
Australian given 21 years jail for Facebook murder
A man who befriended a teenage Australian girl on the social media site Facebook before luring her to a secluded spot and killing her was imprisoned for at least 21 years on Friday.
01 September 2012
Death penalty confirmed for Mumbai attacks gunman
India's Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed the death sentence handed down to Mohammed Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed.