The White House says cell phone video showing the fatal beating of a 16-year-old honors student in Chicago is 'chilling.' White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the video is among the most shocking anyone can see.
Drew Swank passed away Sunday two days after his football team played in Washtucna. While his teammates on the Valley Christian Panthers squad cope with his loss their opponents on the Tigercats squad are grieving his loss as well.
In India, the first ever female troops have been deployed to control the border with Pakistan. The division of young women, skilled in combat training and firearms, are being heralded as a strong female role model for modern India
Nearly 100 people are thought to have been killed and many others have been injured in the Samoan islands after a powerful earthquake triggered a series of tsunamis.
Residents of a village in northern Thailand make their living from what they call boxing matches with snakes. Trained snake fighters go eye-to-eye with venomous king cobra snakes.
France 24 looks at the chaotic situation in Manila after tropical storm Ketsana hit the Philippine capital bringing with it the heaviest rain in more than four decades. At least 140 people have been reported dead, officials say.
An Afghan immigrant has pleaded not guilty to plotting a terrorist attack on New York City using common chemicals. Najibullah Zazi's lawyer entered the plea Tuesday in Brooklyn.
Security officials are concerned over a tactic newly employed by al Qaeda. Sheila MacVicar reports suicide bombers are now storing explosives inside their bodies in order to avoid detection.
In 2005, eight thousand Israeli settlers were ordered to be evacuated from Gaza. But four years on many of the refugees are still living in temporary shelters.
Nine people on the sex offender registry in Georgia are now living in tents in the woods, they say because Georgia's strict sex offender law has left them with few options.
Non-stop overnight rain from a tropical storm have caused massive flooding in Manila and many areas in the northern Philippines, forcing hundreds to flee their homes.
One Louisiana couple is suing a New Orleans fertility clinic after it was discovered that some embryos at the lab were mislabeled, others were unaccounted for.
Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive footage of a Colombian contract killer detailing an alleged $25m plot to kill Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president. He says the money was offered by Manuel Rosales, one of Chavez's main political rivals, during a secret meeting in 1999
Story starts after ad........A newborn baby boy is thought to be Indonesia's heaviest at a record 19.2 pounds. Doctors said the infant came into the world via a 40-minute Caesarean section.
A Jordanian man living outside Dallas is in custody on Friday after he tried to blow up what he thought was a vehicle packed with explosives outside a Texas skyscraper.
Muammar gaddafi, the Libyan leader is in New York where he addressed the UN general Assembly for the first time. In an exclusive interview with Al jazeera's Gida Fakhry he discusses his views on the UN, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lockerbie and his hopes for the Obama administration.
A man police say killed his wife and five children has told a newspaper that he did commit the crimes and wants to be put to death so he can be buried next to his family.
Police in New Jersey say a gunman opened fire early Thursday on a SWAT team that burst into a home during a drug and gun raid, wounding four officers while spraying bullets from atop a staircase
Immigration is dramatically rising in Britain. It has doubled since last year alone. Tensions, with more and more people supporting right wing groups, are also on the rise.
A notorious street gang accused of terrorizing a neighborhood for years and killing a sheriff's deputy was the target of a coordinated assault by hundreds of law enforcement officials Tuesday.
A Hofstra University student who had claimed she was raped by five men changed her story after prosecutors confronted her with the revelation that a video of the encounter may have been recorded, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Human rights groups say Nigerian police officers carried out illegal killings during operations against Boko Haram fighters last month. At least 1,000 people died in the violence in the north of the country.
Germany in the coming months is expecting big problems from rising unemployment. Germans face choices in elections at the end of this month. Who will voters trust the most to lead them out of the crisis? What jobs mean to Germany's general election, that's in this week's Europeans.
Authorities investigating two missing girl cases say that cadaver dogs picked up a scent that could indicate buried remains in the backyard of a Northern California couple already charged in a kidnapping.
Yale murder suspect Raymond Clark did not enter a plea but DNA evidence links Clark to the victim, Randall Pinkston reports. Maggie Rodriguez spoke with legal analyst Lisa Bloom about the motive.
Malaysian-born Noordin Mohammad Top was widely considered the mastermind behind bomb attacks on two luxury hotels in Jakarta in July, as well as other attacks in Bali and in Jakarta, killing scores of Westerners and Indonesians.
The house directly next to the President's home in Chicago is for sale. There is no asking price for the 8 bedroom home. While the current homeowner says its a great neighborhood, it does have its drawbacks. The AP's Mark Carlson explains.
(WTNH) There has been a DNA match between Yale graduate student Annie Le and Raymond Clark, a man named by police as a person of interest in her death, published reports said.
The community organizing group ACORN says its ordering an independent investigation after its employees were caught on camera appearing to advise a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie about the woman's profession to get housing help.
Police have questioned -- but filed no charges against -- a Johns Hopkins University student who used a samurai sword to kill an intruder in his garage.
The White House is disputing former President Carter's assertion that opposition to President Barack Obama is being fueled by racism. The AP's Julie Pace has the latest on Carter's controversial comments.
Many of those who are uninsured are people with mental illness who were released from health facilities - and on to the streets with nowhere to go - during the 1970s....
The latest Osama Bin Laden tape appears to show a significant change of tone from the al-Qaeda leader. Is it a change of style, or it it because he is losing influence? How might the West respond?
Police in Charlotte, NC now say a person of interest is in custody following the murder of a pregnant teenager. The girl was gunned down Monday as she waited for the school bus. The girl's adopted brother is now in custody.
WTNH) -- New Haven police say a body, assumed to be that of missing Yale grad student Annie Le, was found in the Yale medical building where she was last seen. Le, 24, was last seen at 10 Amistad St. this past Tuesday. She was to be married today on Long Island.
Bloody clothing has been found in ceiling tiles at 10 Amistad Street, the Yale building where Annie Le was last seen, authorities said Saturday. A body has not been found, authorities told News Channel 8.
A large outpouring of anger against the Obama administration took place from the White House to the Capitol. As Nancy Cordes reports, many complained that their views had been dismissed by Washingon.
Track's governing body is reviewing the results of gender tests on a South African runner that dominated her race at the world championships in Berlin last month, but won't likely share the news for months.
The decision to launch a war crimes investigation into the deaths of five journalists in East Timor 34 years ago, threatens to rekindle a dipomatic row between Australia and Indonesia.....
A Florida man is now free, after spending the last 26 years wrongly imprisoned for rape and murder. Anthony Caravella was convicted when he was 15, but DNA tests recently proved Caravella was not responsible.
Though they may not be getting a beer together anytime soon, President Obama did accept Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-S.C.) apology for his outburst at Wednesday's health care address.
South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson says his party's leadership told him to apologize to the White House for his outburst during President Barack Obama's address when he shouted out, 'You lie!'
Five handcuffed men were brought off the Boeing 737 plane on the tarmac at Mexico City international airport by police shortly after around 100 passengers and the crew descended safely from the aircraft, local television images showed.
A 15-year-old Florida boy is charged with conspiracy to commit murder for what police say was a plan to have his mother killed. His 13-year-old friend is facing an attempted murder charge in the plot.
A man accused of killing a 14-month-old girl with a baseball bat in church while trying to settle a score with her father was charged with murdering her on Tuesday.
A water main break in the Valley Village-North Hollywood area of Los Angeles creates a giant crater, and a fire truck rushing to check out another sink hole gets submerged in water. No one was injured.
An Arizona pastor says he hates President Barack Obama and that he's praying for his death. In an August sermon, Steven Anderson used the bible to try and justify his controversial position.
A couple was attacked with acid in a busy Hong Kong shopping area on Sunday after an argument with a man. Local television footage showed the two victims carried by stretcher into an ambulance. A further nine people were also hurt as the liquid splashed on nearby shoppers.
Investigators say a boy allegedly abducted in a custody dispute nearly two years ago has turned up alive, hiding with his mother in a small, specially built secret room at his grandmother's Illinois home.
Authorities say a man shot his estranged wife, son and 2-year-old grandson to death and seriously wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law Saturday at their rural Louisiana home, then killed himself as police tried to pull over his car
Was there a plot to blow up a hotel where the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was staying while on her three day visit to Kenya? Highly placed sources say Kenyan authorities thwarted a plot by Al- Shabab, the Somali based terrorist group, to strike two hotels during the Secretarys visit to Kenya. Ntvs Dennis Onsarigo with the details of a terrorist plot that saw the countrys security agencies on the highest alert in recent times.
Japan's next prime minister might be nicknamed "The Alien" for his prominent eyes, but it is his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another world. "While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus," Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, wrote in a book published last year. "It was a very beautiful place and it was really green."
Though it has weaken, the hurricane Jimena did some damages that the resident of San Carlos in northwestern Mexico survey under still strong bad weather conditions.
A category three hurricane has pounded one Mexicos famous tourist hotspots. Raging winds of up to 115 miles per hour (185 kph) damaged property and brought down power lines.
Jimena is no longer a hurricane. The storm is now a tropical storm, bringing torrential rains to Northwest Mexico. The storm is not expected to bring rain to Southern California, currently being ravaged by wildfires.
Sex-offender Phillip Garrido is now a suspect in two other abductions. Maggie Rodriguez spoke with legal analyst Lisa Bloom about how Garrido's crimes went unnoticed.