World/Local News

BELGRADE, Serbia—Serbia on Monday sentenced two men to 15 and six years each in prison for the wartime torture and killing of 700 Muslims in eastern Bosnia—but the prosecutor’s office called the sentences too lenient […] […]

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA— The death toll from a stampede on a bridge in Cambodia’s capital rose to at least 339 people with nearly just as many wounded, the prime minister said on Tuesday.Most of the […] […]

Former vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Democratic Republic of Congo went on trial overnight for rapes and murders allegedly committed by his troops. The landmark trial was set to last for months. Mr Bemba is […] […]

NATO’s top civilian representative in Afghanistan has been forced to clarify remarks he made suggesting children were safer in Kabul than in London or New York. Mark Sedwill said he had expressed himself badly in […] […]

LONDON—WikiLeaks says that its next release will be seven times the size of the Iraq war logs, some 400,000 secret documents that amounted to the biggest leak in U.S. intelligence history. The secret-spilling website sent […] […]

MILWAUKEE—The prison escape of former Playboy Club bunny and Milwaukee police officer Laurie “Bambi” Bembenek popularized the phrase “Run Bambi Run” and seemed tailor-made for the TV movie it inspired. But despite the fame garnered […] […]

A violent weekend in Toronto has left one man dead and seven people recovering from gunshot wounds. The violence began with two separate shootings early Saturday morning. Shots rang out inside Peanut Plaza—a pub on […] […]

Arrests of pensioners are soaring as an influx of elderly inmates creates new problems for prisons. It is being dubbed the “grey crimewave” or the rise of the “Saga lout”. The prison system, already struggling […] […]

A study published in the US today finds St Louis overtook Camden, New Jersey, as America’s most dangerous city in 2009. The study released by CQ Press found St Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes per […] […]

AMMAN, Jordan—Calm was restored to the northwestern Jordanian town of Salt on Sunday after four days of rioting sparked by the shooting of an alleged traffic violator, police said. Suleiman Khreisat remains in critical condition […] […]