The U.S. authorities have placed a new bounty for the capture of accused Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, months after a ruling from a judge in Mexico's Jalisco state overturned his conviction which made him a free man.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted on Tuesday that he has smoked crack cocaine "probably in one of [his] drunken stupors," but reiterated that he will not resign
Five arrests were made in north Mali on Monday following the abduction and murders of two French journalists, Ghislane Dupont and Claude Verlon on Saturday. News reports said that the journalists were taken in the troubled city of Kidal, just after they finished an interview with a rebel leader in the area. They were reportedly killed by gunfire after they had been abducted.
Domnica Cemortan, a Moldovan dancer, told an Italian court on Tuesday that she was Captain Francesco Schettino's lover, Agence France Presse reported. Cemortan is testifying in the tril against Schettino for manslaughter and abandoning the ship.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck off Japan's east coast at about 2:10 a.m.Tokyo time, as the country's emergency agencies issued a tsunami advisory for the region, the U.S. Geological Survey said, reported the Associated Press. There were no immediate reports of damage on land.
DNA tests have confirmed that a Bulgarian Roma couple living in abject poverty are the biological parents of a 'mystery blonde girl' named who was discovered near a camp last week, Agence France Presse reported. Svetlozar Lazarov, the Bulgarian interior minister and the prosecution have not yet decided whether Maria's parents will be detained since she may have been sold, an official said. Maria has been placed in temporary care
Pirates attacked an oil supply vessel off the Nigerian coast and kidnapped two U.S. crew men, including an American captain and chief engineer, security sources confirmed, as reported by Reuters. The two men were onboard U.S.-flagged oil supply ship, the C-Retriever,in the Gulf of Guinea, according to news reports. The State Department said the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria continue to investigate the incident, although there were no additional details offered
Portuguese prosecutors ordered police to reopen the investigation into the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the missing British girl who disappeared while on vacation with her parents at a resort in Praia da Luz, a coastal town 120 miles from Lisbon.
Police fired teargas at students in Paris on Thursday, as protests erupted following the deportation of a 15-year-old girl from Kosovo and a 19-year-old Armenian on Saturday. Entrances to several Parisian schools were blockaded by mostly students, even as Interior Minister Manuel Valls defended the detention of Leonarda Dibrani during a school trip and her deportation to Kosovo.
The body of 24-year-old British teacher Lauren Patterson was found reportedly murdered in a Qatari desert, The Daily Mail reported. Patterson was reportedly last seen with two men, including an ex-boyfriend at a nightclub in Doha on Saturday night
An Indian court sentenced four men to the death penalty for the gang rape and murder of a student in the capital New Dehli. The four men were all found guilty on all counts earlier this week, in a case which led to violent protests throughout India. New laws against rape were also implemented due to the protests.
Indian police have arrested Meena Kumari, a head teacher of a school in the eastern Bihar state of India where 23 children died after eating food contaminated with insecticide, BBC News reported. She handed herself in on Wednesday. Police now believe she can help explain how the deadly insecticide monocrotophos ended up in the free school lunch. All total, 47 primary school children have gotten sick after consuming the meal of rice and soybeans
While the announcement of documents from Schindler's List being put on eBay for $3 million raised some eyebrows in recent days, a director of a museum in Krakow Poland, near the Auschwitz death camps said the historical document should not cost as much as the going rate is online.
24-year-old Marte Deborah Dalelv, a Norwegian woman at the center of a rape claim she made only to be given a 16-month sentence for reportedly having illicit sex, has been pardoned and is free to leave the country.
The Mexican marines have captured and arrested Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, head of the Zetas drug-gang leaders in a raid near the U.S. border. Morales was reportedly wanted on both sides of the border for running drugs on a worldwide scale and for ordering massacres. He was reportedly intercepted with two lieutenants in a pick-up truck near Nuevo Laredo, and Mexican officials said that he had eight guns and $2 million in cash.
42-year-old Meshael Alayban, who is identified as a Saudi Arabian princess, has been accused of holding a domestic servant against her will at her condominium in Irvine California. Alayban faces one felony count of human trafficking. She is one of the wives of Saudi Prince Abdulrahman bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz al Saud.
At least seven people were killed and tens of others were injured on Friday when a train derailed in Bretigny-sur-Orge French Interior Ministry Manuel Valls told reporters on Friday.
A panel of judges on Monday sentenced former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to seven years in prison for abusing power and having sex with an underage prostitute, CNN reported. Judges also barred him from holding public office.
American Chip Starnes, a co-owner of the Coral Springs, Florida-based Specialty Medical Supplies, said on Monday that he has been held hostage for four days at his supply plant in Beijing, China by workers who have demanded severance packages like those given to 30 co-workers in a phased-out department.
Four people were killed, and one was seriously wounded on Monday after a man opened fire in a bank in the souther Israel town, Ha'Aretz reported. The gunman identified as Itamar Alon committed suicide after holding a woman hostage during a shootout with police.
