The Nigerian terrorist organization Boko Haram has been blamed for attacking an agricultural college in the middle of the night, gunning down close 50 students as they slept in their dormitories, the school's provost said, as reported by The Associated Press. The group later torched their classrooms.
Amanda Knox's retrial began Monday in Florence, Italy over the 2007 killing of her British roommate Meredith Kercher while they were on their study abroad program together. The 26-year-old who, along with her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, were acquitted of murder in 2011, expressed great uneasiness in interviews about returning to a country where she had spent four years in jail. She was not present as the retrial began on Monday.
Two former U.S. soldiers have been extradited from Thailand to New York to face charges of plotting to murder an American federal drug agent as part of a major international narcotics smuggling operation,
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council reached an agreement on Thursday evening in an effort to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons.
