An Iranian resistance group claimed Thursday that it has compiled evidence showing Iran has been secretly developing a nuclear enrichment site for years outside Tehran, a development one official said proves Iran has a “hidden, secret nuclear...

Tough-looking ambulance drivers in this central Gazan city are drawing images of their fears with crayons. In the northwestern village of El Atatra, in an overheated hall without electricity, 10-year-olds are closing their eyes and imagining a...

There was a buzz of excitement among the mourners in the village church in St Lucia when I arrived for the funeral of Joseph, a farmer. The open coffin stood in the porch with a crush of people around it so great that I made no attempt to look. The...

Sell off the Queen’s swans. Make lawmakers work for free. Force prison inmates to generate cheap power on the treadmill. As Britain’s government decides how to make the toughest spending cuts in decades, it has asked the public for help....

First, the rebels killed four of Joseph Munyaneza’s children in 1997. The family fled to another village. The following year, that village came under siege. Another four children died of gunshot wounds. Then the baby, from malnutrition. Today,...

Bobbie Jo Geveshausen liked to videotape her boyfriend, Edward D. Shockey, sexually abusing her 16-year-old daughter. And sometimes, the 43-year-old woman liked to join in. For that, she’ll be serving 58 years in prison — a sentence that...

Former New York state Senate Republican Majority Leader Joseph Bruno on Thursday was sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted on two federal charges of corruption. Barack Obama U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe sentenced Bruno to two years...

Whether it is jumping off the world famous Eiger, flying through the air in a wing suit or perilously balancing on a 30-foot long ’slack line’ hundreds of feet above a valley floor, American adventurer Dean Potter has it covered. Constantly...

A taxi driver has been accused of raping a 12-year-old girl and then burying her alive after he thought he had strangled her to death, authorities said Wednesday. Garsha Wilson faces charges including rape, abduction, attempted murder and cruelty to a...

Anti-government demonstrators broke into the country’s parliament building Wednesday, keeping a promise to intensify protests unless Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva dissolves parliament. Soon afterward, the protesters — known as “red...