Now builders such as Mariano Briceño, a 30-year veteran of the construction industry here in western Venezuela, are facing a new curveball: an order from the Chavez government to give large refunds to home buyers. “This isn’t socialism...

A father who had no interest in his four-year-old daughter hurled her off a 120ft cliff to avoid paying child support, a prosecutor told a court yesterday. Cameron Brown, 47, is accused of killing Lauren Sarene Key after splitting from his British-born...

A father, his two sons and four other North Carolina men are accused of military-style training at home and plotting “violent jihad” through a series of terror attacks abroad, federal authorities said yesterday. Officials said the group was...

A boat carrying up to 200 migrants from Haiti has capsized off the coast of the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos, the US Coast Guard says. It said at least four bodies had been recovered and many more were feared dead. About 70 people stranded on...

Close to a black cross where Mexican drug cartels used to place the severed heads of their rivals, and near the site where the mutilated bodies of 12 police officers were found, a vendor has little success at his roadside stall selling...

Is Google stealing our content? That, anyway, seemed to be the suggestion when a European publishing group announced last week that it had garnered a number of supporters for its Hamburg Declaration, which calls for “urgent improvements in the...

Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change. That prospect seems lost for the near future or for at least as long as it will take...

In one case, a person on the list was able to buy more than 50 pounds of explosives. The new statistics, compiled in a report from the Government Accountability Office that is scheduled for public release next week, draw attention to an odd divergence...

Some observers see Iran’s courageous protests against a stolen election as a replay of the 1979 revolution that ended the tyranny of the Shah - or of the “velvet revolutions” that ended communism in Eastern Europe. Others fear a repeat...

- Up to 21,000 independent child migrants from outside South Africa are living in the country, according to a discussion document by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The report published in February 2009 - Child Migrants with and without Parents:...