Death by stoning for convicted adult adulterers may soon be written into Afghan law, a senior official said on Monday, Reuters reported. "Men and women who commit adultery shall be punished based on the circumstances to one of the following punishments: lashing, stoning [to death]," article 21 of a draft of the new penal code
Forensic technicians have found at least 42 corpses in almost two dozen hidden mass graves in La Barca near the border between Jalisco and Michoacán states
The United Nations said on Monday that Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government and the opposition will hold their first negotiations, which aims to end the county's civil war, in planned peace talks to take place in Geneva on January 22
Several cars of the New York-bound Amtrak Crescent carrying 218 passengers and crew derailed in Spartanburg, South Carolina, which left four people with minor injuries, authorities said, as reported by The Associated Press. Spartanburg County Deputy Fire Marshal Tony Barnett said the derailment of the Amtrak train from New Orleans occurred at 12:10 a.m early Monday morning
