The presiding judge in the trial of a man accused of the 2014 high-profile kidnapping of a girl who managed to escape her captor last year postponed handing down a ruling Tuesday after the 25-year-old suspect threw the hearing into confusion with his erratic ...

Military police on Sunday buried the 100th officer to be killed in Rio de Janeiro state this year, a 39-year-old who was shot multiple times while off duty and visiting his father. The grim milestone underscores a surge in violence in Rio, Brazil's signature city ...

A Moroccan man who is facing charges in a stabbing attack that killed two people and wounded eight others in Finland, lied about his name and age, Finnish police said Sunday. The suspect has been hospitalized since officers shot him in the thigh to stop ...

Thousands of supporters of an Indian quasi-religious sect leader were leaving his headquarters in northern India on Sunday as authorities relaxed a curfew a day ahead of his sentencing for rape. They responded to an appeal by authorities to go home after thousands of followers ...

Donald Trump asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions about dropping a criminal case against controversial ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio, a close ally of the Republican president who has since received a pardon, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Trump was advised that closing the criminal contempt case against ...

Rampaging mobs left at least 30 people dead and more than 250 others injured in a north Indian state on Friday after a court declared a quasi-religious sect leader guilty of raping two of his followers. Security forces patrolled the streets of the main trouble ...

Two London police officers were slightly injured while detaining a man with a knife outside Buckingham Palace on Friday evening. The Metropolitan Police said the man, thought to be in his 20s, drove up to a police vehicle near the palace, and officers spotted a ...

More than a thousand mourners attended a funeral procession in a northern Manila suburb on Saturday for a high school student whose killing a week earlier by anti-drug officers has caused rare public outrage about the country's war on drugs. Kian Loyd delos Santos was ...

U.S. President Donald Trump spared former Sheriff Joe Arpaio a possible jail sentence Friday by pardoning the recent federal conviction stemming from his immigration patrols, reversing what critics saw as a long-awaited comeuppance for a lawman who escaped accountability for headline-grabbing tactics during his ...

Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona have seized a nearly 100-pound (45-kilogram) bundle of marijuana after spotting it flying over the border fence. Surveillance video on Wednesday captured the large package flying over the fence from Mexico to the U.S. Agents found a large, plastic-wrapped bundle ...

Hong Kong's highest court dismissed an appeal by two pro-independence lawmakers contesting their disqualification from the legislature last year on Friday, effectively ruling out their return to the political fold in the Chinese-ruled city. China's parliament made a controversial interpretation of Hong Kong's mini-constitution that ...