Ryan Villarreal

Human Rights Watch published a report Wednesday on approximately 400 Afghan women and girls imprisoned for moral crimes, calling upon the U.S. and coalition nations to pressure the Afghan government to end what it deems discriminatory laws against women.

The second annual Runway For A Cause pageant will take place on April 14 outside Las Vegas, Nev., in the stateline community of Primm.

Director Spike Lee recently retweeted a Sanford, Fla., address that was erroneously linked to George Zimmerman, the man who claims he shot and killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in self-defense, which local police have cited as the reason for not arresting him.

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being investigated for aggravated pimping in connection with a French prostitution ring.

A senior executive at Invisible Children--creators of the viral Kony 2012 activism campaign--recorded a video in which he jokes, while appearing to be heavily drinking, about stealing money from a 2010 $1 million award, some of which was intended for earthquake aid to Haiti.

A swine flu outbreak in India has claimed 12 lives since the beginning of this month and more than a hundred people have been infected so far. The source of the outbreak has not yet been determined, but India's Health Ministry has said it is being contained and urged people not to panic.

President Obama was en route to South Korea Saturday for a two-day international nuclear security summit in Seoul as North Korea prepares to launch a satellite into space via rocket in April.

George Zimmerman's lawyer has spoken out about his client's involvement in the fatal shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

It was on Mali's state television that a rebel faction of the military announced Thursday it was staging a coup to overthrow the democratically elected President Amadou Toumani Touré. On Friday, the station in Bamako ceased broadcasting as rebels constructed barricades around the capital in anticipation of a countercoup by loyalists.

Local police raided an unlicensed cannabis club in Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, seizing a vending machine that dispensed marijuana and arresting four people.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will face 17 counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder in a military court Friday, following a massacre two weeks earlier of Afghan civilians in which he is the prime suspect.

Rogue planets could be hurtling through space at speeds approaching 30 million miles per hour--near 5 percent the speed of light--launched in slingshot fashion by the extreme gravitational pull of the supermassive black hole believed to be at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, scientists have calculated.

The Chinese government is moving quickly to censor Internet rumors of an internal coup in Beijing following the high-profile dismissal of top Communist Party leader Bo Xilai last week.

President Obama visited the nation's largest solar panel plant in Boulder City, Nev., Wednesday, touting the state as a pioneer in clean energy, while promoting his all-of-the-above energy agenda on a four-state tour.

A recent study has confirmed that toxic compounds derived from oil that was released in the Deepwater Horizon spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico nearly two years ago has entered the ocean's food chain through microorganisms.

Mohammed Merah has been named the suspect in the recent killing of a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school and three French paratroopers. At the moment, French police are in a tense standoff with him. As authorities attempt to negotiate his surrender, facts about the murder suspect are beginning to emerge.

Comedian Aziz Ansari released his standup special, Dangerously Delicious, on his website Tuesday, bypassing cable networks in lieu of the Internet.

A grand jury will investigate the shooting death of unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin, state attorney Norm Wolfinger said Tuesday.

New E.U. sanctions have prompted Belgium-based financial institution SWIFT to deny Iranian banks access to a global messaging system that is used for arranging money transfers that are crucial to facilitating the country's oil exports.

Scientists in recent years have attempted to identify the factors behind the increasing numbers of honeybee deaths in North America and Europe -- and new research has found the use of a specific class of insecticides in cornfields may be responsible.

Actor George Clooney was released from jail Friday afternoon several hours after he was arrested after protesting outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington.

As China's Communist Party government continues to ramp up surveillance on political dissidents, it is becoming increasingly questionable ethically for the companies that provide it with the relevant technology and services. One such company, owned by the Mitt Romney-founded private equity firm Bain Capital, stands to profit from the country's domestic security boom.

A recent scientific study provides evidence that the brown recluse spider is spreading out of southern regions into areas where the climate is becoming warmer.

Doobie Brothers drummer Michael Hossack died of cancer at the age of 65 on March 12, 2012. Hassock played in the band in from 1971 to 1973, and later from 1987 to 2012 for series of benefit concerts and reunion shows. The Paterson, New Jersey native almost chose a different line of work from music. Here are five things to know about his history with music and the Doobies.

Belgian doomsday survival author Patrick Geryl has made enough money to spend on preparing for a global catastrophe in 2012 by writing books about it and what other people can do to prepare.

Perez, 21, a student at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, was travelling with her boyfriend and his mother last September when she was bitten by a brown recluse spider.

Parts of Boston were plunged into darkness Tuesday evening when a three-alarm fire broke out in a major electrical transformer causing power outages which disrupted public transit and raised alarm over the potential spread of toxic fumes.

President Obama sought to alleviate outrage over Sunday's massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by an American soldier, denouncing the killings and vowing a full investigation.

The woolly mammoth has not roamed the earth for over 10,000 years, but scientists in Russia and South Korea are hoping to change that after agreeing to collaborate on a project to clone the extinct Ice Age beast.