A brief overview of gun laws in the state where 26 people were killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting.
In the wake of the tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., White House spokesman, Jay Carney, has told reporters that this is not the time to discuss gun control.
Why Thomas Hamilton committed this unspeakable act of violence has never been determined.
Cayman Islands HEAD McKeeva Bush refuseS to resign following arrest on suspicion of corruption.
in 2012, Germany's population has jumped by 389,000, largely due to immigration from southern Europe.
Economist Krugman says the Republican Party has reached the end of a 30-year cycle of failed conservative policies, and it doesn't know how to deal with failure.
kidnappings in Nigeria have become so routine that they do not even make front page news.
It is unclear when the Patriots from the U.S. will arrive in Turkey or how long American troops will be stationed there.
President Barack Obama says there are "bigger fish to fry" than recreational pot users.
The victim didn't have scars, so Judge Derek Johnson says treating her rape case like others is an "insult to victims of rape."
Three times as many people are now dying from obesity as from malnutrition.
In the first State of the Nation speech of his third term, Putin urged Russia to make babies and maintain national sovereignty.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is unlikely to be able to stay in power, a senior NATO official has said.
Progress has been achieved in talks between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran, a senior U.N. official has said.
The U.S., Canada and the UK have refused to sign a U.N. treaty at the global telecommunications conference in Dubai.
South Korea’s Navy is claiming it retrieved the debris from a long-range rocket that North Korea launched Wednesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has suffered a strong bout of bleeding as an unexpected complication resulting from a cancer-related operation.
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is believed to have been working with the British secret service when he was murdered in 2006, according to new evidence presented in a preliminary inquest into his death in a London court.
The embattled secretary of state candidate, criticized by Republicans over the Benghazi attack, steps aside.
Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta was denied the Medal of Honor for the second time even as witnesses claimed he dove on a grenade, sacrificing his life for the rest of the unit.
China's largest office building cost 4 billion yuan to construct, and is second largest in the world to the Pentagon. However, some Chinese believe this is a misuse of taxpayer money.
British authorities are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy killed by radiation poisoning in 2006.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador for the U.N., withdrew her name Thursday from consideration to be secretary of state in the face of implacable opposition from Senate Republicans.
Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration as U.S. secretary of state on Thursday in the face of what promised to be a difficult Senate confirmation battle.
Once Assad's staunchest ally, Russian ministers have begun to express dismay at the idea of an opposition victory in Syria.
A suicide bomber killed one American service member and wounded three other U.S. troops outside a base in southern Afghanistan on Thursday shortly after a visit there by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, officials said.
A poll found that only two percent of Americans think the Mayan apocalypse will occur.
No one died when Chinese Muslims from the Xinjiang region tried unsuccessfully to hijack a plane in June, but they've been sentenced to death anyway.
Roughly 20,000 Egyptian expatriates participated in the first day of voting on the draft constitution.
Pakistan’s armed forces and the Taliban are committing human rights abuses against civilians in the country’s northwestern tribal areas.
