International

By Ben Wedeman and Michael Pearson, CNN Rome (CNN) -- Scandal is threatening to eclipse the poignancy and pageantry of Benedict XVI's historic final days as pope. Vatican officials were already trying…

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (February 25, 2013) --Top Police Constable of the St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force, Nevis Division for 2012 #601 Valentine Hodge, believes that Police Officers ought to be…

When the long-awaited decision came, the only man in the packed courtroom who did not seem seized by the moment was Oscar Pistorius himself. His family members smiled and joined in a circle of prayer.…

Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- South African prosecutors pushed Friday to keep Oscar Pistorius behind bars, painting the double-amputee track star as a killer offering an improbable defense in the…

By Caribbean News Now contributor DALLAS, USA -- Allen Stanford’s receiver and investors’ committee have sued Antigua and Barbuda, the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) and 23 former Stanford…

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 19 February 2013 11.25 GMT Angelique Chrisafis in Paris and agencies Diamond heist at Brussels airport nets gang up to £30m in gems Masked armed men held up security van as…

Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- Model Reeva Steenkamp was shot four times through the bathroom door at the home of Olympian Oscar Pistorius, a South African official familiar with the case told CNN on…

South African Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has been arrested after his model girlfriend was shot dead at his home. According to local media reports, Reeva Steenkamp, 30, may have been mistaken for…

(CNN) -- An 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami that killed five people but didn't threaten the wider region. Four elderly…