MOGADISHU, Somalia — Four youths were publicly whipped in the Somali capital on Monday after an Islamic court found them guilty of gang rape in a demonstration of the government's inability to administer justice in the chaotic, war-ravaged nation.
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaican police say four people were killed and four others injured when gunmen showered the dance floor of a crowded Montego Bay nightclub with bullets.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Bill Clinton and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are trying to refocus international attention on Haiti with a visit Monday they hope will lure more aid to keep the impoverished country from sliding back into chaos.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's prime minister said Monday that a car crash that killed his wife was an accident and that there was "no foul play" in the collision, despite at least three previous assassination attempts against him.
On Sunday, a 43 year-old man armed with a knife was transferred to Chicago’s Swedish Covenant Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after he barricaded himself inside his West Side apartment.
LOS ANGELES Chris Brown has been charged with two felonies stemming from what a police detective describes as a brutal argument between the singer and his girlfriend, Rihanna.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession.
