A Texas man who killed a Dallas police officer outside a club has been executed, according to AP.
Licho Escamilla was lethally injected Wednesday for the November 2001 death of Christopher Kevin James who was trying to break up a brawl involving (...)
U.S. scientists said 2011 was the ninth-warmest year on record in 33 years of satellite measurements of temperature readings for almost all regions of Earth, according to UPI.
This was despite La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling events at the start and (...)
The planned execution Thursday of a Mexican national has prompted a flurry of appeals on his behalf, including a rare plea from the White House, because of what it could mean for other foreigners arrested in the U.S. and for Americans detained in (...)
The Group of Eight nations Saturday said conditions in Gaza under an Israeli blockade were “not sustainable and must be changed.”
They pressed Israel and the Palestinians to work for direct peace talks.
The G8 nations also deplored what it said (...)
World leaders neared agreement on Saturday to halve their budget deficits within three years but, fearing spending cuts would jeopardize a fragile recovery, they planned to allow each country to set its own pace.
The G20 leaders of world's richest (...)
Group of Eight leaders have agreed on the need to stay focused on immediate growth goals while tackling public finances “going forward,” a senior US official said on Friday.
“There is a broad consensus among the G8 leaders, a convergence of views, (...)
President Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan, will host a 50th anniversary celebration of 18 African nations' independence in Washington this summer, senior U.S. officials said on Friday.
"It will not just mark the 50th anniversary of (...)
The professor accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty meeting was a Harvard-educated neurobiologist, inventor and mother whose life had been marred by a violent episode in her distant past.
More than two decades ago, police said, Amy (...)
Authorities said an Alabama biology professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues at a faculty meeting was captured only minutes after the gunfire, sparing further bloodshed.
Police said a 9 mm gun was found in a restroom in the science (...)
Texas executed a condemned killer despite questions over whether he was mentally retarded, UPI cited officials as saying.
A group of lawmakers asked Gov. Rick Perry to delay the Huntsville execution Thursday of Derrick Lamone Johnson because of (...)
Four people are dead after a
medical helicopter crashed in a national forest in Texas, AP reported.
Federal aviation spokesman Roland Herwig says the crash
happened early Sunday. The helicopter was on its way from a
hospital in Huntsville to one (...)
A Texas judge halted the
execution of a condemned double-murderer set to die
Thursday, marking the second time in two weeks that a
capital sentence was blocked in the U.S.'s busiest death
penalty state, according to The Associated Press.
Joseph (...)
All indications on Saturday pointed to the Conservatives ousting Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin in Canada's general election on Jan. 23, Reuters reported.
With a little more than a week to go and polls showing the opposition party enjoying a (...)