UK Man Wrongly Charged With Rape After DNA Error
Posted: 8:39 AM Britain's forensics watchdog says an innocent man spent months in jail on a rape charge because of a DNA technician's "avoidable" mistake.
Posted: 8:39 AM Britain's forensics watchdog says an innocent man spent months in jail on a rape charge because of a DNA technician's "avoidable" mistake.
Updated: 5:34 PM The European Space Agency says its cargo craft has successfully undocked from the International Space Station after a failed separation caused by communication problems earlier in the week.
Updated: 3:10 PM NATO hasn't said whether it considers the incident an "insider" attack, but a firefight between U.S. forces and their Afghan army allies in eastern Afghanistan has left two Americans and three Afghan soldiers dead.
Updated: 2:17 PM Calls for limiting freedom of expression to prevent denigrating attacks on Islam are being made at the United Nations.
Updated: 12:18 PM Nobel Peace Laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in San Francisco during her landmark visit to the U.S. where she received an honorary doctorate from the University of San Francisco.
Updated: 4:17 PM Posters, set models and Daniel Craig's swim trunks are among items up for grabs in an auction of memorabilia from the James Bond movies.
Posted: 1:57 PM Police say a 15-year-old British schoolgirl who sparked an international search when she went missing along with her math teacher has been found safe and well in France.
Posted: 1:55 PM Officials say a man has attacked Czech President Vaclav Klaus with a plastic gun.
Posted: 1:51 PM French cyclist Robert Marchand has ridden 100 kilometers (62 miles) in 4 hours, 17 minutes and 27 seconds.
Posted: 1:47 PM The U.N. nuclear chief says the threat of nuclear terrorism has not diminished.
Updated: 1:44 PM Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says intelligence suggests the Syrian government has moved some of its chemical weapons, but the U.S. believes that the main sites still remain secure.
Posted: 5:58 PM Police in north central Nigeria say at least 14 people have died after a gasoline tanker caught fire and exploded.
Posted: 5:56 PM The crew of the Costa Concordia has been awarded the "Seafarer of the Year" award at the Lloyds List Global Awards ceremony for "the courage and professionality" demonstrated by crew members when the ship hit rocks and capsized last January.
Posted: 10:34 AM A U.S. defense official says NATO troops are slowly rebuilding efforts to partner with Afghan troops, working through a new approval process that severely restricted combat operations pairing coalition and Afghan forces.
Posted: 10:12 AM Police have released the head of Google Inc.'s Brazil operations after his detention for not taking down YouTube videos a judge ruled violated local electoral law.
Posted: 9:43 AM The company that makes cars for Japan's bullet train has been picked to build a fleet of next generation passenger cars for rail corridors in the Midwest and California.
Posted: 11:27 AM Schoolchildren playing on a road construction site have stumbled on hundreds of hand grenades.
Posted: 11:15 AM Nigerian officials say 908 Muslim women pilgrims traveling to Mecca face deportation from Saudi Arabia for traveling without male relatives.
Posted: 9:14 AM Syrian rebels have claimed responsibility for two bombings today that left Syria's army command headquarters in flames.
Posted: 8:51 AM An arraignment is set for today in a St. Maarten court for a man accused of killing a South Carolina couple in their Dutch Caribbean vacation home.
Posted: 8:50 AM The sister of slain Ambassador Chris Stevens says "it helps to have the world mourning with you" and know that he was appreciated.
Posted: 7:06 AM Zimbabwe state media reports that President Robert Mugabe has assured regional leaders that adoption of a new constitution is on track ahead of proposed elections to end the nation's fragile coalition government.
Posted: 5:38 PM A 6.2-magnitude earthquake has rattled the southern part of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, but there are no immediate reports of damages or injuries.
Posted: 12:39 PM U.S. Jewish community leaders say Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told them that most Palestinians believe statehood can be reached only by compromising with Israel.
Posted: 10:25 AM A judge has ordered the arrest of the president of Google's operations in Brazil for failure to remove YouTube videos that attacked a mayoral candidate.