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AN INDIAN national arrested as he was trying to flee the country has pleaded guilty to the brutal abduction and rape of a young university student. Harjot Hundal Singh dragged the woman into his windowless […] […]

UNITED States sprinter Tyson Gay beat Jamaica’s Usain Bolt to cop first place in 9.84 in the 100 metres race at today’s Diamond League meet in Stockholm, Sweden. Bolt made second place in 9.96 in […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—The bodies of 10 people, including eight foreigners, were recovered Friday in a remote area of Badakhshan province in northern Afghanistan, police said. Provincial police chief Gen. Agha Noor Kemtuz said the victims, who […] […]

HAVANA—Three armed men who were intercepted by Cuban border guards in 2001 and have been awaiting trial since then on charges they planned acts of sabotage went to court behind closed-doors Friday, according to a […] […]

The Pentagon has asked a website that solicits leaked government secrets to cancel any plan to publish more classified military documents and pull back tens of thousands of secret Afghan war logs already posted on […] […]

A New Zealander’s teaching career in Britain has been left in ruins after he was found guilty of inciting two former pupils to behave in a sexual way on a webcam. A jury at Basildon […] […]

Broke and desperate, Tania Aziz devised a plan to seriously injure her boss. With him in hospital, she could take over his kebab shop lease and wipe out her debts. So she hired a hitman. […] […]

WASHINGTON—Four of the United States’ most highly valued al-Qaida terrorists were moved secretly to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003, years earlier than has been disclosed, then were whisked back into overseas prisons before the U.S. […] […]

SRINAGAR, INDIA—A cloudburst followed by flash floods hit a Himalayan desert region in Indian-controlled Kashmir, sending rivers of mud down mountainsides and killing at least 103 people Friday, officials said. Nearly 2,000 foreign tourists were […] […]

EDINBURGH—Scottish police say an arrest warrant has been issued for the American mother of three children who were found dead in a Scottish town house. Police said Friday that 46-year-old Theresa Riggi faces criminal charges. […] […]