A Moscow City Court judged dismissed the jury in the murder trial of five men who have been suspected of being involved with the murder of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Three of the accused failed to turn up for a hearing Thursday.
25-year-old DeShawn Butler and his 7-month son DeShawn Kinard were shot and killed in an apparent ambush near a New Orleans bridge on Wednesday night. The authorities are offering a $15,000 reward for tips leading to whoever shot them
Musician Paul McCartney has written an informal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin in hopes of finding a solution to free 30 people who were detained during a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling,
Two U.S. Secret Service agents have been removed from President Barack Obama's security detail amid allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct, The Washington Post reported. They reportedly sent sexually inappropriate emails to a female colleague, while the same agent and another agent 'inadvertently left a bullet in a woman's hotel room, then demanded to be let back in."
