US authorities charged Tuesday an American woman known as “JihadJane” with recruiting jihadist fighters to plan deadly attacks in Europe and South Asia.
The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Colleen LaRose from Pennsylvania, who was arrested in October 2009, and said she had been given a direct order to kill an unidentified Swedish citizen.
The [...]
The U.S. government and human rights activists called Tuesday for Nigeria to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the deaths of more than 200 unarmed people in renewed violence between Christians and Muslims.
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan had promised that the fighting would stop after more than 300 people were slain in January. Jonathan fired his [...]
Lil Wayne has finally been sent to jail for gun possession after being sentenced in a New York court.
The rapper will serve a year behind bars after being arrested back in 2007.
Weezy’s lawyer told reporters that he was likely to go to Riker Island prison in New York and be kept separated from other inmates.
Sentencing [...]
Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, or the “Snow Leopard” as he has been dubbed, is making his final preparations for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
A skier preparing to take part in the Games at this point in the calendar is not the most sensational news, until it is understood the 31-year-old grew up in Accra, Ghana (where [...]
President Barack Obama stumped Sunday for the Democratic candidate in Massachusetts’ knife-edge Senate election, saying that his legislative agenda depended on her winning.
The seat, which was occupied by Edward Kennedy for almost five decades before his death in August, was considered a Democratic stronghold. But candidate Martha Coakley finds herself struggling ahead of Tuesday’s vote [...]
Bodies littered Haiti’s capital on Wednesday after an earthquake that may have killed thousands of people as it collapsed shanty towns, luxury hotels and even the presidential palace.
With victims pinned under debris and powerful aftershocks rattling the country, looting broke out soon after the 7.0 magnitude quake which spared no part of the capital [...]
