Did NATO pilots allow 62 Africans fleeing Libya to perish on the high seas because their mission did not include saving desperate migrants or because NATO's tangled bureaucracy had failed? That's the allegation roiling Europe after some of the handful of survivors, who drifted for weeks after a harrowing escape from Tripoli, told of having been spotted and then ignored by Western forces. The survivors, whose story was broken in Britain's Guardian newspaper on Sunday, told of a ...

Did the Stimulus Ship Jobs to China? In dozens of key races around the country this election cycle, Republicans are hammering Democratic incumbents with this message: Billions of dollars were spent to create jobs in China. "Is Baron Hill running for Congress in Indiana or China?" asks one typical ad being run by the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC). "Baron Hill supported the $800 billion failed stimulus package that created renewable energy jobs in China." Another ad says West Virginia Democrat Nick Rahall's ...

Much of the world was shocked and titillated by news of alleged fat-stealing murderers in the Peruvian jungle. But the story may have a much more sinister underbelly. Could the allegation of homicidal liposuction possibly be a smokescreen to distract attention from other crimes, including, some local journalists say, the existence of a death squad that may be operating within the country's national police? The existence of marauding fat stealers was made public mid-November by General Felix Murga, head ...

A Colorado resident at the center of a federal terrorism probe met with FBI agents for a second day Thursday as his lawyer disputed a report that bomb-making plans were found on the man's computer. Federal agents searched Najibullah Zazi's apartment and another home in the same Denver suburb on Wednesday in connection with the terrorism probe, which emerged Monday with a series of raids in the New York borough of Queens. A law enforcement official told CNN ...

Some Democrats say they fear their party's method of picking a nominee might turn undemocratic as neither presidential candidate is likely to gather the delegates needed for the nomination. Federal agents searched Najibullah Zazi's apartment and another home in the same Denver suburb on Wednesday in connection with the terrorism probe, which emerged Monday with a series of raids in the New York borough of Queens. A law enforcement official told CNN that diagrams showing how to ...

For a house once full of love and children, there sure seems to be a lot of hate going on with the Gosselins. This time, it's former Star reporter Kate Major, who said she and Jon Gosselin had a fling shortly after his breakup with wife Kate Gosselin -- an allegation he's strenuously denied. "I will take a lie detector test and I would love for Jon to take a lie detector test because for him to say there was ...

British prosecutors are seeking a retrial for three defendants in an airline bomb plot after a jury was unable to reach a verdict. The three men were among eight defendants recently on trial in a plot to blow up planes on flights between Britain and North America. A jury Monday cleared the three -- Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan, and Waheed Zaman -- of conspiracy to murder by blowing up trans-Atlantic aircraft, but it was hung on whether to convict ...

Police in London said Friday they are investigating an allegation of torture involving a British intelligence officer.

The expulsion of a U.N. official from Sri Lanka is final and he has to leave the country by September 21, the government has told the agency. Officials with the United Nations Children's Fund met with Sri Lankan officials on Monday in hopes of keeping James Elder inside the country. But Sri Lanka stood firm in its decision, and has issued UNICEF an expulsion notice for Elder, said Sarah Crowe, the agency's spokeswoman for ...

Renault face an extraordinary meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris later this month to answer charges of potential race-fixing. The allegation surrounds last season's Singapore Formula One Grand Prix when Fernando Alonso won the race, aided by a crash from then team-mate Nelson Piquet Jnr. If found guilty, the team face severe sanctions which could result in them being excluded from the current world championship. A statement from the FIA read: "Representatives of ...