The Barbados-born singer had intended to wear the items to the Grammy music awards, which she did not attend because of the alleged assault by her R&B star boyfriend. "The investigating officer gave...
WASHINGTON - A senior US lawmaker on Sunday called for a special commission to investigate the US government's alleged torture of terror detainees, amid calls by some that the country bury the...
BANGKOK, Anusak Kongland - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced that he would lift a state of emergency in Bangkok on Friday, saying that his government wanted reconciliation after violent...
VATICAN CITY - A group of young Palestinians offered a black-and-white keffiyeh, the traditional Arab scarf, to Pope Benedict XVI at the end of his general audience in Saint Peter's Square...
JOHANNESBURG, Justine Gerardy - Long lines of South Africans voted Wednesday in general elections all but certain to launch the ruling ANC party's popular but controversial leader Jacob Zuma into the...
WASHINGTON, Jim Mannion - A little known Pentagon agency that trained US troops to resist torture promoted the use of some of the same interrogation techniques on Al-Qaeda, which were aired and...
WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael - President Barack Obama dived Tuesday into Middle East peacemaking as he invited Arab and Israeli leaders to Washington and called for "good faith" gestures from all...
NEW YORK - A teenage Somali pirate will be tried as an adult, a US federal judge decided Tuesday, rejecting as not credible a claim that the accused was only 15 years old.
Judge Andrew Peck...
GENEVA - Human Rights Watch urged nations that walked out of the UN racism conference in Geneva to return following the Iranian president's verbal onslaught against Israel on Monday.
In a...
WASHINGTON- Human Rights Watch warned on Monday that the world had only hours to prevent a potential "bloodbath" in Sri Lanka, but the island's ambassador here pledged to protect civilians.
Sri...