Mexican federal police say they arrested one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, a Los Angeles man sought on charges of murder, kidnapping and rape.

The U.N. Committee Against Torture is strongly criticizing Russia for failing to investigate widespread allegations of torture and increasing intimidation and reprisals against human rights advocates and journalists.

Hundreds of migrants have been stuck for three days along railway tracks in southern Mexico because the freight train they usually ride toward the U.S. border caught fire.

Thieves with a huge sweet-tooth have driven off with 18 tons of chocolate in Austria.

Police say a Toronto teen is the latest person to be charged in connection with one of the worst mass shootings in the city's history.

Police and eyewitnesses say a naked man has climbed atop an equestrian statue in the heart of Whitehall, London's government district.

A report by a union of Somali journalists is urging the new Somali government to end the impunity which it says has contributed to making Somalia one of the most dangerous countries to practice journalism.

Opponents of President Mohammed Morsi have set fire to offices of his Muslim Brotherhood in several Egyptian cities, clashing with his supporters after the Islamist leader assumed sweeping new powers.

Two aunts of famed Puerto Rican boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho say his family has decided to wait two more days before taking him off life support.

Authorities in Guatemala say gunmen burst into a medical clinic in the capital and shot seven people to death.

Officials say a helicopter has crashed in an upscale Bahamas resort, killing one U.S. citizen and injuring at least three others.

A Dubai court has sentenced an Irish man and British woman to three months in jail for an intimate tryst in the back of a taxi.

American troops are celebrating Thanksgiving Day with food and football at a U.S.-led coalition base in the Afghan capital.

The cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas calls for both sides to immediately stop the violence that has been raging since Wednesday.

Egypt has announced a cease-fire agreement to end a week of fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

Ireland's police force says its officers have arrested 113 suspected drug dealers and seized five marijuana growing facilities in the nation's biggest-ever crackdown on triad drug-trafficking gangs.

Amid diplomatic efforts to forge a truce, the violence between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers has taken on a new dimension today.

An official says the U.S. secretary of state has retuned to Jerusalem for another round of meetings with Israeli leaders as she tries to wring an elusive truce deal over the Israel-Hamas fighting.

Eduard Mochalov, a farmer who tried to bring justice for his stolen cattle and pigs, spent eight months in jail. He even set himself on fire in protest, but still could not draw attention to his cause as his farm slowly fell into disrepair.

Former world boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho was shot in the face as he sat in a car outside the Puerto Rican capital Tuesday, and doctors said he was in serious condition but expected to survive.

Two Taliban Suicide bombers struck near a U.S. base in Kabul early Wednesday, killing two Afghan guards in the heart of a neighborhood filled with foreign forces and embassies.

India executed the lone surviving Pakistani gunamn from the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai early Wednedsay.

A rogue City trader who gambled away 1.4 billion pounds ($2.2 billion) in bad deals at UBS bank has been found guilty of fraud.

Egypt says it has reached an initial deal with the International Monetary Fund that will secure a $4.8 billion loan to revive the country's ailing economy.

A Polish university researcher driven by nationalistic and anti-Semitic hatred was arrested for planning to detonate a four-ton bomb in front of the Parliament building in Warsaw with the president, prime minister, government ministers and lawmakers inside, authorities said Tuesday.