The ship from Cuba was stopped at the Panama Canal. Authorities: vessel had a history of carrying "illicit substances."
U.S. grain giant Archer Daniels Midland wasn't cited in the allegations about intimidation.
China is planning to expand restrictions on vehicle purchases to eight more cities, but automakers say it won’t affect national sales numbers.
Paul McCartney, who had never visited Nigeria before, envisioned a relaxing sojourn in a tranquil sun-drenched tropical retreat.
One Chinese city hopes that if people don't do the right thing out of the goodness of their hearts, they'll do it because a law helps them do so.
Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer, once disgraced public figures, could now stand to benefit from the scandals that almost ended their careers.
The leader of the dreaded Zetas has been captured near the U.S. border, the Mexican government says.
One of the jurors says she believes the killer was attacked first and feared for his life.
Outrage erupted across the country over George Zimmerman's acquittal. Here, the scene in New York.
Gun control groups hope that the Trayvon Martin trial will turn attention again to the gun debate. But Washington isn't getting the memo.
According to a 2009 report by the World Bank, about 10 percent of the 2 million people living in the West Bank are forced to buy water trucked in by Israel’s national water company.
Robert Zimmerman Jr. says his brother was trying to protect himself and race wasn't a factor in Trayvon Martin's killing.
On July 4, Gregory Kennedy, owner of Barducci's Bistro and Pizza in Fla., reportedly fired his entire staff by text message.
As health care reform goes into effect, the government expects con artists to take advantage of it to sell fake insurance and steal identities.
Removing an image of Hitler from a college wall will likely not eliminate what appears to be Thailand’s fascination with the Third Reich and Hitler.
The online betting site Paddy Power has Pakistani girls' education champion Malala Yousafzai as most likely to win in October.
Forensics animator John Suchocki re-created the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash and compared it to what would have been the proper approach angle.
China is one of the top nations in the number of executions. But the high-profile case of Zeng Chengjie has sparked a discussion of the policy.
David Simon, creator of "The Wire," called George Zimmerman's acquittal an injustice.
The lawsuit filed by the family of Rebecca Zahau claims she was murdered, despite a medical examiner ruling her death a suicide.
One officer was killed and another was wounded when a suspect wielding an AK-47 assault rifle opened fire in a Killeen, Texas, police shooting.
Jamaat-e-Islami is demanding Ghulam Azam's release, calling the sentence politically motivated.
The Mount Baldy section of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore has been closed following the dune collapse that trapped 6-year-old Nathan Woessner.
A Swedish sociology professor thinks the NSA leaker deserves the prize for his "heroic effort at great personal cost."
An annual report on U.K. terrorism laws outlines the practice of seizing mobile data from people traveling through Britain.
The 29-year-old suspect had a pellet gun in his car and an open container of alcohol, according to John Kerry's spokesman.
Hundreds of British police reinforcements were deployed in Belfast Saturday after Protestant riots over a blocked march left 32 officers, a senior lawmaker and at least eight rioters wounded.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is being pressured to step down after newspapers linked him to a man on trial for corruption.
A 1979 case about a Baltimore thief could ultimately determine the fate of government metadata collection.
Bangladesh’s new labor law sets provisions to form a central fund for worker welfare, while talks on revising the minimum wage are underway.