WASHINGTON _ U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is facing questions Wednesday from a Senate panel on the Secret Service prostitution scandal that embarrassed the White House and overshadowed the president's visit to a Latin American summit.
The Secret Service says two more of t ....
WARSAW, Poland _ As Anders Behring Breivik has given shocking and remorseless accounts to a Norwegian court of how he massacred 77 people, his testimony has revived a debate about how much of a public platform mass-murderers should be given in trials.
Such atrocities, after all, are often waged f ....
LONDON _ News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch defended his globe-spanning, half-a-century long media career Wednesday, telling an official inquiry into U.K. media ethics that he never gave his editors orders on who to back or used his political sway for financial gain.
Speaking softly, deliberately ....
CAIRO, Egypt _ Egyptian authorities have denied permission to eight American non-profit groups to operate locally, including a centre headed by former President Jimmy Carter that monitors elections, a ministry official says.
The move to deny permission to The Carter Center and others comes only a ....
CARACAS, Venezuela _ Venezuela's justice minister on Monday accused a former Supreme Court magistrate of receiving money from drug traffickers.
Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami made the accusation against ex-Magistrate Eladio Aponte, who charged in a television interview shown last week tha ....
BEIRUT _ Two days ago, crowds in the Syrian city of Hama welcomed a U.N. team sent in to observe a shaky truce. On Monday, government troops opened fire on the same streets, killing dozens, activists said, raising fears the regime is targeting opponents emboldened to protest by the U.N. monitors.
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BANGKOK, Thailand _ Unsettling news about Europe's debt crisis and disappointing U.S. corporate earnings weighed on Asian stock markets Tuesday.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.4 per cent to 9,506.82 and South Korea's Kospi dropped 0.2 per cent to 1,969.66. Still, the losses were mute ....
CANBERRA, Australia _ Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as ``disgraceful'' an opposition claim that she is making light of sexual harassment by allowing the parliamentary speaker to hold his job while facing allegations that he pressured a staffer for gay sex.
House of Representa ....
SINGAPORE _ A Swiss banker and a school principal are among 48 men charged in Singapore with paying for sex with a minor.
Court documents released late Wednesday show 40-year-old Swiss national Juerg Buergin was charged with paying for sex with a girl local media say was 17. Buergin was Swiss ban ....
NEW YORK _ A gentle warning to anyone planning to see James Corden's return to Broadway: Get to his show on time or risk being part of it.
``Someone came in late yesterday _ like about 15 minutes late _ and that's fine, you just carry on. But he came in late and he was moving bags and swi ....
