PARIS - Police on Thursday detained a Franco-Lebanese businessman who is being probed in a high-profile political financing scandal over suspicions he was trying to flee France, a source close to the case said. Ziad Takieddine, who is banned from leaving France as investigations into the so-called ...

LONDON : One of the chief suspects in the brutal killing of a British soldier on a London street appeared in court on Thursday charged with murder and possession of a firearm.Michael Adebowale, 22, spoke only to confirm his name and address at the brief hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ ...

WASHINGTON : An FBI agent shot and killed a man Wednesday morning in Orlando, Florida, who was being interviewed about his ties to the Boston bombing suspects, according to US media reports.The man, identified as Ibragim Todashev, 26, was from Chechnya, the reports said.CBS News senior ...

WASHINGTON : - Russia withheld “crucial” information from the United States on one of the suspects of last month’s deadly Boston Marathon bombings, The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday.Citing unnamed US officials, the Journal said on its website that the information ...

WASHINGTON : Federal authorities have charged a Texas man with illegal possession of bomb making materials, but would not say whether the arrest is linked to a probe into last month’s deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant.The US Justice Department said in a statement that Bryce Ashley Reed, ...

NEW YORK : Slain Boston Marathon bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has finally been buried, ending a growing row over what to do with his body, police in the Massachusetts town of Worcester said Thursday.“As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came ...

CLEVELAND : Unemployed American bus driver Ariel Castro appeared in court Thursday to face charges that he kidnapped and raped three young women and held them and a young child in his home for a decade.The 52-year-old from Cleveland, Ohio did not enter a plea and stood with his head bowed while the ...

NEW YORK:  The teen Boston Marathon bombing suspect, recovering from wounds suffered in a getaway attempt, has been moved from a hospital to a prison medical facility, theUSMarshals Service said Friday. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was sent to the Federal Medical Center Devens near Boston, spokesman ...

THE HAGUEDarfur rebel leader Saleh Jerbo, charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court, has been killed in the western Sudanese region, his defence team said."The defence of Mr Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus hereby notifies the trial chamber, with great sadness... that Mr Jerbo died in ...

DALLAS: A subtitling firm has apologised after naming actress Zooey Deschanel as one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects on live TV news. The erroneous onscreen text appeared during coverage of the manhunt for the second bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The message displayed on screen read: ...

NEW YORKDzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, has told investigators that the deadly plot was self-contained, involving only he and his brother and did not enlist the aid of terrorists or groups overseas, according to media reports.Tsarnaev, 19, who was arraigned in his hospital ...

RAWALPINDI – Torture has become a norm in our society generally and in all police stations of Punjab particularly.A 47-year-old man, who was arrested by police on charges of his involvement in three police encounters and several other robbery cases, died in police custody on Wednesday due to ...

In the shadows of the American operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the fate of a small-town Pakistani doctor recruited by the C.I.A. to help track the Qaeda leader still looms between the two countries, a sore spot neither can leave untouched. Picked up by Pakistani intelligence agents days ...