A British woman stripped down to her bikini and strutted defiantly through a swanky Dubai mall after an Emirati woman covered head-to-toe in black confronted her for wearing a low-cut shirt, police said Thursday. Mall security detained both women and...

Hundreds of marchers protesting Arizona’s hard-line stance against illegal immigration took to the streets Thursday even as the local sheriff launched raids to arrest illegal migrants — vivid signs that the court ruling stopping most of a...

The City Council gave final approval Tuesday to a plan that makes Oakland the first city in the country to authorize large-scale industrial pot cultivation. The city intends to license four production plants where marijuana would be grown, packaged and...

The body overseeing the trade in “blood diamonds” has agreed that Zimbabwe can resume limited exports from new diamond fields in the east of the country. Under the terms of the deal, Zimbabwe will be able to sell some stockpiles. It may be...

A Canadian captive at the Guantanamo prison said on Monday he rejected a plea deal that would have freed him in five years if he admitted to killing a U.S. soldier in battle. Omar Khadr, now 23, was captured in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002 and...

Cuba has freed seven political prisoners and sent them and their families to exile in Spain – the start of a promised mass liberation of dissidents that once seemed unthinkable. Omar Ruiz, who had been serving a 12-year sentence for treason, said he...

The U.S. government has denied a visa to a prominent Colombian journalist who specializes in conflict and human rights reporting to attend a prestigious fellowship at Harvard University. Hollman Morris, who produces an independent TV news program...

Most teenage thieves content themselves with a spot of shoplifting. Colton Harris-Moore, a 19-year-old on the run from US authorities for two years, has bigger ambitions: he is being hunted in the Bahamas after stealing a plane and making a 1,000-mile...

Former Honduran President Mel Zelaya said Monday that the coup that ousted him a year ago was planned by the U.S. Southern Command from the Palmerola military base in Honduras. “Everything indicates that the coup was planned at the Palmerola military...

SINCE Israel’s deadly raid on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara last month, it’s been assumed that Iran would be the major beneficiary of the wave of global anti-Israeli sentiment. But things seem to be playing out much differently: Iran paradoxically...