A manhunt is under way after four police officers were killed in an execution-style ambush at a coffee shop in Washington state. A lone gunman started shooting in the café near McChord Air Force base in Tacoma, south of Seattle, at about 8.15 am (16.15pm GMT) local time on Sunday.
Investigators probing the derailment of an express train in Russia say they have found "elements of an explosive device" at the site and believe an act of terror caused the deadly incident.
A bomb has derailed Nevsky express - a passenger train from Moscow to St Petersburg (поезд "Невский Экспресс") on Friday night in what's thought to be a terrorist attack. Dozens have been killed in the bombing. If a terrorist link's proven, it would be the deadliest attack in Russia, outside the volatile Northern Caucasus, in recent years.
Tiger Woods was injured in a single-vehicle accident outside his home early Friday and a local police chief says the golfer's wife smashed out the back window to help get her husband out of the SUV.
Vast crowds of pilgrims cast stones at walls symbolizing Satan on the third day of the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. Around the world, Muslims have begun celebrating the Eid al-Adha holiday
The chief suspect in the killing of at least 57 people in the southern Philippines has turned himself in to local authorities. Andal Ampatuan Jr, a local mayor and member of a powerful political clan in the Maguindanao province, says he surrendered to prove his innocence.
The Philippines' President Gloria Arroyo has been tainted by the politically-motivated massacre of 57 people on the southern island of Mindanao, with police saying the top suspect in the killings is a powerful local politician, and a well known ally of the President.
State authorities plan to corral about six-thousand wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small town in Australia's Outback in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies.
Investigations by The Nation show that Xe Services, the successor to Blackwater, is carrying out targeted assassinations in Pakistan, supposedly without the knowledge of the White House.
The mother of a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome who was missing in New York City for 11 days says her son spent the entire time in the subway system.
Day One of the Iraq Inquiry: It's already heard from British diplomats who claimed America discussed ousting Saddam Hussein more than two years before the invasion in 2003. Sky's senior news correspondent Michelle Clifford reports.
More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing are being recalled, the biggest crib recall in U.S history, following reports of four infant suffocations.
A state of emergency has been declared in parts of the southern Philippines a day after a massacre - apparently linked to the country's upcoming elections.
A cruise ship passenger owes his life to a sharp eyed Coast Guard crew which spotted him swimming for his life off Miami Beach Sunday. Coast Guard authorities say they received a call around 3 a.m. from the crew.
The rhinestone-studded white glove that the late Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 has been sold at auction in New York for $382,000.
Prosecutors on Saturday requested life in prison for an American student and her ex-boyfriend accused in the fatal stabbing of her British roommate during a drug-fueled sex game.
An Oregon appeals court has ruled against an Oregon high school teacher who wants to take her gun to class. She has been battling for years and says she needs the gun for protection.
A 3-year-old boy was left stranded at a commuter train platform when a door on the train malfunctioned, separating the toddler from his dad. A good Samaritan stayed with the child until the father could return.
The parents of an 8-year-old Liberian girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by four boys in July were arrested Friday on child abuse charges, according to Arizona police.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will face charges he violated state laws, according to an ethics panel ruling Wednesday that came after a three-month investigation.
Ten African Heads of State are now demanding compensation for the adverse effects of climate change on African nations. The Heads of State among them President Mwai Kibaki were meeting in Ethiopia for an African Union Committee meeting on Climate Change. The leaders say western countries responsible for green house gas emissions should compensate African Nations which contribute little in carbon dioxide emissions .
President Barack Obama on Wednesday met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing. Nearing the end of his first-ever trip to China, Obama said he came determined to strengthen a vital partnership.
Songs and prayers were part of a North Carolina community's gathering to remember little Shaniya Davis, the 5-year-old girl whose body was found Monday off a rural road in central North Carolina.
Doctors in Australia have separated conjoined twins who shared parts of their heads and blood flow. A medical team needed 25 hours to perform the operation on the two-year-old girls from Bangladesh.
A 31-year-old man in Washington State rams his SUV into the local jail, later struggling with officers trying to arrest him. Police do not know what led to the crash. The man's family says he suffers from mental issues
The father and aunt of Shaniya Davis are hoping for her safe return after her mother sold her into child prostitution. They spoke exclusively to Maggie Rodriguez.
Authorities acted on a tip Sunday and searched a wide area in south-central North Carolina trying to find a 5-year-old girl reported missing by her mother, who has been charged with human trafficking and child abuse involving prostitution.
The British authorities are investigating 33 new claims of abuse against UK troops who were stationed in Iraq. The allegations by former Iraqi detainees include accusations of serious sexual abuse and torture, including one case in which a 16-year-old Iraqi says he was raped by two British soldiers on an army base.
Israel dubs Palestinian farmers trying in vain to irrigate their lands "water pirates". Palestinian farmers in the West Bank, or "water pirates" as Israeli occupation forces prefer to call them, are siphoning off drinking water pipes in an effort to secure water to irrigate their farmland.
Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, who was arrested in a scuffle with a photographer, could be sent to jail if he's found to have violated probation from a 2007 drug case.
Swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April and killed nearly 4,000, including 540 children, according to startling federal estimates released Thursday.
O'bama's Irish Pub owner says his pub is like the US President in a couple of ways. Also find out how pub patrons will react if Mr Barrack Obama showed up?
Sammy Sosa tells a Spanish TV station that he does not have a skin disease and that his he looks white because of a certain skin cream he uses to stay soft and smooth.
Heavy rain, lightning and strong winds caused blackouts that left nearly 60 million people in the dark in Brazil. The weather made transformers on a vital high-voltage transmission line short-circuit
A group of demonstrators took to the streets of Philippines capital Manila on Wednesday, protesting about the forthcoming visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton amid allegations of human rights abuse and anger over a US military pact.
A woman who was mauled by her friend's chimpanzee has revealed the extent of her injuries in public for the first time. Charla Nash appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show nine months after the attack by her friend Sandra Herold's pet chimp Travis.
A man who was arrested but later released in connection with the rape of a 16-year-old girl outside a high school homecoming dance in California says he didn't take part in the attack, but was trying to help the girl.
John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in October 2002, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening
Hasan's family has hired Retired Army Col. John P. Galligan out of Belton to represent him. Galligan specializes in courts-martial and has represented other soldiers in high profile cases.
An accident-plagued stretch of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge saw its first fatality Monday when the driver of a speeding big rig lost control and the truck plummeted 200 feet from the span, authorities said.
USA - With close to 1000 dispensaries offering diverse strains of medical marijuana, and just as many doctors willing to hand out prescriptions for the drug, Los Angeles has quickly become a marijuana smoker's heaven.
Media access to the Dalai Lama appeared to be restricted Monday, as he continued a week-long visit to a disputed border region near Tibet. China had asked that his trip be cancelled entirely, but India refused.
Damage and destruction from a weekend storm is now responsible for the deaths of more than 100 people in parts of El Salvador. Another 60 people remain missing.
The villagers of Nil'in, central West Bank, were joined by international supporters on Friday for the weekly protest against the illegal Israeli Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall. The protesters marched towards their lands where Israel is building the wall.
Centuries of mistreatment at the hands of Washington have left most native Americans living on isolated reservations. According to the latest government figures, there are nearly three million native Americans living in the US. The vast majority live west of the Mississippi River. The Sioux nation in the state of South Dakota is America's fourth largest tribe. And now they're fighting to take back land which they say the US stole from them more than a century ago. Tom Ackerman has more from the Black Hills in the US state of South Dakota.
Officials say the suspected Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before transferring to Fort Hood. They said he received a poor performance evaluation while at Walter Reed.
President Barack Obama is telling Native American tribal leaders he is determined to reverse the federal government's history of marginalizing and ignoring the plight of Indian nations.
California's corrections secretary apologized Wednesday for mistakes made in Phillip Garrido's parole supervision, while the state police union deflected blame.
A surveillance camera recorded the brutal attack on a jail guard by an inmate. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said detention deputy Kenneth Moon escaped serious injury in the attack Monday because other inmates came to his aid.
Only a few weeks after Rio won its bid to host the Olympics Games in 2016, crime levels have become a major concern after a police helicopter was shot down. Since then, almost 50 people have been killed in clashes between police and rival drug gangs.
In New Zealand, gangs have become an increasingly serious problem which is now threatening to replace the Maori culture, as more young Maori turn to a life of crime to find a sense of belonging.