In almost every way, David Headley was the perfect neighbour. When the 49-year-old American citizen began renting an apartment in Mumbai last year he charmed his landlord, treated his laundry boy with respect, and befriended Bollywood figures at a local...

The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. A top Obama administration official on...

Police say Mike Tyson has been detained on suspicion of battery after an alleged altercation with a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport. Tyson’s spokeswoman Tammy Brook says the boxer was traveling with his wife and 10-month-old...

Yesterday, the first female mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, went on trial accused of stealing gift cards meant for the poor and using them to fund lavish shopping trips. If convicted she faces up to 15 years in prison. For reasons of race and distrust...

If, like many on the far side of the Atlantic, you were upset by revelations about David Letterman’s extramarital office romances, it’s probably best to keep your TV firmly tuned away from the sports channels. In the week that a former...

Iraq has called for more support from the international community to help it combat insurgent suicide bombings. Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday’s bombings, which killed more than 150 people, had shaken confidence in the...

A mother’s plot to blame a stranger for killing her sons went awry when one of the boys survived and told police how Michelle Kehoe cut his throat, then moved on to his younger brother, an Iowa prosecutor said Thursday.

The very-much-alive British writer is referred to as “the late V.S Naipaul, a Nobel prize winning author” in the footnote of sworn testimony from an FBI agent. The error is included in documents filed at a court in Chicago for the trial of...

Eric Williamson, from Springfield, Virginia, was brewing coffee in his kitchen when a woman and a seven-year-old boy walked past the window and saw him. The woman complained to police who arrested Williamson shortly after the incident on Monday...

The United States spends about $3.6 billion a month in Afghanistan, according to data provided by the Congressional Research Service. The average cost per month is calculated at an average 51,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but that number likely will...