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Senior Johannesburg cop found murdered
A South African police commander was found murdered in a field with his hands and feet bound in the early hours of Tuesday, a police commissioner said. Major General Tirhani Simon Maswanganyi's body was discovered in a field near a road north of the capital Pretoria, according to Gauteng province commissioner...
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India hardliner Modi makes up with ex-mentor
Hardliner Narendra Modi, the main opposition BJP's frontman for next year's Indian elections, held fence-mending talks with the party's elder statesman L.K. Advani Tuesday after a fallout with his former mentor. Advani, an 85-year-old stalwart of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party who is also a former...
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Ex-South Africa ambassador criticizes Israel
The recently retired South African ambassador to Israel has taken a parting shot at the country's treatment of Palestinians, calling it a "replication of apartheid." Ismail Coovadia made the statement in a letter to pro-Palestinian activists. In it, Coovadia explained his decision to reject a symbolic gift from the...
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Italy top court faults Amanda Knox acquittal
Italy's high court has explained why it reversed the acquittal of American student Amanda Knox, saying the decision acquitting her of murder was full of contradictions. In March, the Court of Cassation overturned Knox's acquittal in the 2007 murder of flatmate Meredith Kercher and ordered a new trial. On Tuesday,...
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New language discovered in northern Australia
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Top Secret 'Jumping Jeep'
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Blood tests may detect sexually-transmitted cancers
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Sen. McCaskill backs group urging Hillary 2016 run
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Clashes erupt in south Lebanon amid tensions
Lebanese security officials say clashes have erupted between unknown gunmen and followers of a radical Sunni cleric in the south of the country. The officials said automatic rifles and rocket propelled grenades were being used in the fighting that broke out Tuesday afternoon in an eastern suburb of the port city of...
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Stolen Civil War-era sword to be returned to Brown University
A Brown University spokesman says a Virginia antiques collector has turned over a Civil War-era sword that was stolen from the Ivy League school in the 1970s. Last week, a federal judge in Virginia ordered Williamsburg collector Donald Tharpe to surrender the Tiffany silver sword to Brown. Tharpe bought it for...
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Michigan diver hopes to find descendants of the writers of a 100-year-old message in a bottle,...
A Michigan diver who last year found an unread message in a bottle hopes to locate the authors' descendants before a historical celebration on an island near Detroit that the writers would have likely attended, The Detroit Free Press reported. Dave Leander found the bottle buried under about six inches of dirt in...
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Craft Brew: Cans Vs. Bottles
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'Sons of Guns' Renewed
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Lil Wayne Stomps on Old Glory
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Judge: Sex tapes violate ex-Waffle House CEO's privacy
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GOP Strikes Back at Voter ID Ruling
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Iran's Ahmadinejad meets newly elected successor
Iran's outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met his successor Hassan Rowhani on Tuesday for the first time since the moderate conservative was elected, in talks centred on political and economic issues. Rowhani, a 64-year-old cleric who is scheduled to take office on August 3, won an outright victory in Friday's...
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Suicide bombers attack Baghdad Shiites, kill 31
Twin suicide bombings killed 31 people after midday prayers at a Shiite Muslim religious centre in Baghdad on Tuesday, the latest in violence sparking fears of a revival of full-blown sectarian bloodshed. Several students from an adjacent university were among the dead, with dozens of others wounded, while security...
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Pakistan funeral bomb kills 10, including MP: police
A bomb attack killed 10 people, including a provincial lawmaker, and wounded more than 40 others at a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. The attack took place in Shergarh town in Mardan district, 145 kilometres (90 miles) northwest of Islamabad, during funeral prayers for the owner of a local...
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Israel housing minister says settlement freeze in place
Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel on Tuesday implied that a silent freeze on new housing projects in east Jerusalem and the West Bank has been in place since the beginning of 2013. Ariel's remarks to army radio come a day after his party leader Naftali Bennett declared that the idea of a Palestinian state had...
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Turkey vows to ramp up police powers amid crackdown on protests
Scorning international criticism over the force used to quell a wave of anti-government protests, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday defended the nation's police and vowed to increase their powers to deal with unrest. The government has been criticized for the disproportionate use of force by the...
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Egypt, Ethiopia agree to talks about Nile dam
The foreign ministers of Egypt and Ethiopia say their countries have agreed to start consultations aimed at resolving their conflict over Ethiopia's huge dam on the Blue Nile River. The ministers said in a joint statement Tuesday that they had "agreed to embark on consultations at the technical and political...
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Lawyer for Gadhafi son wants him handed to ICC
A lawyer for a son of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi has accused Libyan authorities of showing a "blatant disregard" for the International Criminal Court by announcing they will put Seif al-Islam Gadhafi on trial in August. In an urgent filing to the Hague-based court Tuesday, British lawyer John Jones is asking...
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Bus plunges off road in China, 11 dead
State media say a bus carrying 35 people has plunged into a valley in western China, killing at least 11 people. The official Xinhua News Agency says the accident happened Tuesday afternoon when the bus was traveling to a tourist spot near Changji city in the region of Xinjiang. A Changji police official confirmed...
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'Sons of Guns' gets renewed for 5th season, sources say
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G-8 seeks consensus on military support in Syria, as US, Russia remain divided
Hunting for a glimmer of common ground, the leaders of major economic powers are declaring themselves dedicated to a political solution to Syria's bloody civil war, even as President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin stake out diametrically opposite stands on which side deserves military support....
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Officials: Bomb kills 12 in northwest Pakistan
A Pakistani spokesman says a bomb blast at a funeral in northwestern Pakistan has killed 12 people. The spokesman for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Shaukat Yousufzai, says the bombing in the city of Mardan on Tuesday also wounded 50 people. A police officer, Tahir Ayub, says a provincial lawmaker was among those...
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