World/Local News

MORE than 100 alleged Cosa Nostra mobsters have been arrested around New York in the biggest such operation on record against the Italian-American mafia. More than 800 officers took part in the early morning roundup […] […]

LONDON—The opposition Labour Party’s economics spokesman said Thursday he is stepping down for personal reasons, prompting an unexpected reshuffle in the party’s leadership. Alan Johnson, the most experienced member in Labour leader Ed Miliband’s team, […] […]

LONDON—Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt insisted Thursday that his government will play no role in deciding whether WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange, should be extradited to the U.S. Assange is in London, where he’s battling extradition […] […]

WASHINGTON—A Tennessee Democrat is defending his comparison of Republican health care arguments to Nazi propaganda. Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis made the remarks earlier this week as House lawmaker debated repealing the new health care […] […]

ADULT children of divorced parents are more likely to have suicidal thoughts than those whose parents stay together, a Canadian study has found. Researchers from the University of Toronto said Wednesday that they had studied […] […]

Toronto police have seized a dog believed responsible for attacks on three people at a Vaughan convenience store Wednesday. The German shepherd, an eight-year-old female weighing 90 pounds, was picked up Thursday morning in North […] […]

NEW YORK—It was an abduction that made headlines and stunned the authorities: A three-week-old infant, taken to a Manhattan hospital in August 1987 for treatment of a fever, was snatched by a woman dressed in […] […]

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Federal prosecutors say 127 people are facing charges in one of the largest Mafia crackdowns in FBI history. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said at a news conference Thursday in New York City […] […]

Aysun Sesen was 25, “full of life” and ecstatic that she was about to give birth to her first child when her husband, Turan Cocelli, suddenly grabbed a large kitchen knife and stabbed her repeatedly. […] […]

AN unknown assailant sprayed acid in the face of a prominent Afghan journalist and author, apparently in retaliation for his politically charged writing, the victim and officials say. Razaq Mamoon was not critically injured, but […] […]