Just four months ago Laura Dekker was a carefree 13-year-old with an extraordinary dream - to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. On Tuesday, police hauled her home - clutching a suitcase and guitar - from a mystery trip to the Caribbean, and child care workers sought to remove her from [...]
Parish priest Tim Jones says it’s OK to shoplift at times as long as you don’t take more than you need - but British police, retailers and clergy disagree.
He defended his comments Tuesday in the face of a firestorm of criticism, saying society is wrong to ignore the desperate plight of many poor people.
Washington’s police chief criticized a veteran detective Monday for pulling a gun during a mass snowball fight. Authorities said the officer is on desk duty while the case is under investigation.
“Let me be very clear in stating that I believe the actions of the officer were totally inappropriate!” Lanier said in a statement.
An American student who disappeared in November most likely fell drunkenly into the city’s Main River, Frankfurt police said Friday.
Police said in a statement that dogs traced Holllahan’s trail to the banks of the river, and that authorities found a shoe believed to be his in the waters.
Devon Hollahan, 22, who had been teaching English [...]
A government watchdog says a lack of basic infrastructure in Afghanistan is slowing the U.S. effort to build up Afghanistan’s security forces.
Expanding and improving the Afghan army and police is a key element in President Barack Obama’s strategy for stabilizing Afghanistan so U.S. troops can begin to come home.
A Kurdish father was convicted and sentenced to life in prison Thursday for murdering his 15-year-old daughter because she fell in love with a follower of a different branch of Islam.
Prosecutor Damaris Lakin said the fish-and-chip server killed his daughter for having a relationship with a Sunni Muslim.
A drunk teacher unhappy with a judge’s ruling in his divorce case returned to the courthouse Wednesday and fatally shot one of its employees, authorities said.
Wilhelm Tschugguel, an official who oversees the Hollabrunn court, told The Associated Press that the gunman was unhappy with the outcome of his divorce and was looking for the judge [...]
World leaders will arrive in theDanish capital of Copenhagen in the next three days to agree onan accord to fight global warming. There may be nothing to sign.
Countries and blocks of countries have come here withvery hard positions, Guyanas President Bharrat Jagdeo saidyesterday in an interview in Copenhagen.
Kosovo and EU police arrested seven people on Wednesday in connection with the death of illegal migrants whose boat sank in a river between Hungary and Serbia two months ago, police said.
Eleven bodies were recovered. The fate of the other four is unknown.
About 15 Kosovo Albanians including a one-year-old baby were trying to cross into [...]
German authorities say thieves posing as police officers have made off with euro1 million ($1.45 million) in gold and jewelry.
The thieves wore black pants and jackets with “police” on them and told the driver and his passenger they were customs officials confiscating the shipment.
The German news agency DAPD reports four thieves in a dark BMW [...]
