United States to meet Taliban to seek peace
The United States will meet the Taliban this week for talks aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan, US officials have revealed.
The United States will meet the Taliban this week for talks aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan, US officials have revealed.
A 21-year-old man was left in a coma, with eight other partygoers hospitalised after a pool party went horribly wrong in Mexican city Leon.
FBI agents in suburban Detroit widened their search of an overgrown field for the remains of former Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared nearly 38 years ago and is thought to have been murdered by mobsters.
THIS video shows Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano, one of the most active in the world, erupting - spewing ash and rock three miles high.
The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the New York Police Department over its surveillance of Muslim communities
A former US gangster who admitted killing 20 people was unemotional when describing his work during the trial of his former partner, James 'Whitey' Bulger, but he called himself heartbroken when he learned that Bulger had become an FBI informant.
Opening statements have been heard in the trial of a 79-year-old man charged with the decades-old killing of four women in northern California who had matching initials.
APPLE got up to 5,000 requests for customer data in just six months from US law enforcement authorities relating to criminal investigations and national security matters.
A US man who reduced his wife to tears by accidentally selling her $23,000 (€17,200) wedding ring for $10 (€7.50) at a garage sale said his faith in humanity had been restored after it was returned.
A Canadian woman who was responsible for the deaths of two previous husbands is jailed for poisoning her latest spouse
POWER outages hit the Mexican capital of Mexico City after an earthquake struck the centre of the country, and officials said there was no other damage reported.
The Jackson family might genuinely believe that 15-year-old Paris is bouncing back nicely after her recent suicide attempt, but the authorities in LA aren't taking any chances.
THE Attorney General of the United States has warned the whistleblower who leaked details on the country's internet spying tactics that he will be caught.
PERHAPS because everyone had waited so long for this day, there was an air of both anticipation and anti-climax when Whitey Bulger's trial finally got under way on Wednesday in a federal courthouse named after his old neighbour in south Boston, congressman Joe Moakley.
Three workers were on board the aircraft, but were not injured.
Four people have been killed in a shooting in St Louis, Missouri police said.
Edward Snowden, the whistleblowing former CIA employee, has vowed to fight any attempt to extradite him from Hong Kong and said he would use the city as a base to reveal more "criminality".
Lawyers in the trial of a US man in the fatal shooting of a black teenager are struggling to find jury members who haven't already heard about the high-profile case.
Ariel Castro, the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, has pleaded not guilty to all 329 charges against him, including kidnap, rape, torture and murder.
A notorious Boston mob boss who "did the dirty work himself", killed 19 people and stole millions of dollars before spending 16 years as one of America's most wanted fugitives, a court heard.
Michael Jackson was surrounded by bottles of prescription pills, oxygen tanks and other medical equipment in the bedroom where he died, according to photographs of the scene released by police.
Not quite in hiding after all, Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contract worker turned grand whistleblower, surfaced once again in Hong Kong telling The South China Morning Post he intends to remain there while fighting any future attempt by the United States to extradite him.
Federal prosecutors described accused Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger as a "hands-on killer".
An Argentine football player gets sent off after he grabs a dog that wandered onto the pitch by its neck and throws it against a fence.
Doctors in Kansas City have saved a baby from a life-threatening brain aneurysm using superglue.
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts in a 2000 film about her fight over the pollution of a California town, has been arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated.
THE US is braced for a drawn-out effort to capture the rogue spy who exposed its domestic surveillance apparatus, while President Barack Obama has been urged to prosecute him for treason.
A 29-year-old American who works as a contract employee at the National Security Agency (NSA) is the source of 'The Guardian''s disclosures about the US government's secret surveillance programmes, the British newspaper has reported.
LAWYERS for accused Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger sought to delay the start of his murder trial, arguing they need time to investigate whether or not police turned a blind eye to possible criminal activity of a witness.
A 23-year-old gunman who went on a deadly shooting rampage through the Californian city of Santa Monica was carrying 1,300 rounds of ammunition and was "ready for battle", police said.
A heavy equipment operator with a lengthy criminal record accused of being high on marijuana when a building in Philadelphia collapsed on to a charity shop, killing six people, has given himself up to police.