International

(BBC)  Egypt's referendum on a new constitution has been backed by 98.1% of people who voted, officials say. Turnout was 38.6% of the more than 50-million eligible voters, the election committee said. The draft constitution replaces one…

(BBC) President Obama; ''We will not monitor the communications of... our close friends and allies'' President Barack Obama has ordered curbs on the use of bulk data collected by US intelligence agencies, saying civil liberties must be…

(CNN) -- Police have taken into custody a Beijing-based scholar known for his criticism of China's policies in the restive western region of Xinjiang, his wife told CNN Friday. Ilham Tohti, a prominent economics professor belonging to the…

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- A condemned man appeared to gasp several times and took an unusually long time to die -- more than 20 minutes -- in an execution carried out Thursday with a combination of drugs never before tried in the US. Dennis…

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say a 4-year-old girl accidentally shot her 4-year-old cousin to death with a loaded rifle she found under a bed at a relative's home on the city's west side. Sergeant Michael Woody tells The Associated Press…

CHICAGO, USA (AP) -- The Archdiocese of Chicago will on Wednesday hand over thousands of pages documenting clergy sex abuse allegations to victims' attorneys who have fought for years to hold the Catholic Church accountable for its handling…

Hong Kong (CNN) -- Farmers from a village in southwest China literally turned a multimillion dollar windfall into a wall of cash. This week, residents of Jianshe village in Sichuan Province took delivery of blocks of money worth 13 million…

(CNN) -- Nine years after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the trial of four men accused of his killing opened Thursday in an unprecedented tribunal. However, the stand at the United Nations-backed Special…

(CNN) -- Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone will stand trial on bribery charges over a multi-billion dollar deal, a German court said Thursday. The 83-year-old is accused of making a corrupt payment to Gerhard Gribkowsky, a banker who…

WESLEY CHAPEL, Florida (AP) -- Chad Oulson was described by friends as a man who loved dirt bikes and his baby daughter. Curtis Reeves was a retired Tampa police officer who liked riding his motorcycle with his wife and was once on his…

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — First the Nigerian police targeted the gay men, then tortured them into naming dozens of others who now are being hunted down, human rights activists said Tuesday, warning that such persecution will increase under a…

ROSWELL, New Mexico (AP) — A 12-year-old New Mexico boy drew a shotgun from a band-instrument case and shot and wounded two classmates at his middle school Tuesday morning before a teacher talked him into dropping the weapon and he was…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemalan authorities have detained two women who threw flour on vice president Roxana Baldetti's face at the end of the president's state of the nation speech. Baldetti was about to leave the Teatro National on…

London (CNN) -- Russia has expelled an American journalist and author critical of President Vladimir Putin in one of the first such cases since the Cold War. David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times and author of…

(CNN) -- Between 200 and 300 women and children who were fleeing fighting in South Sudan drowned when an overloaded ferry overturned on a river, a South Sudanese army spokesman said Tuesday. The accident happened Saturday on the White Nile…