Month: May 2012

Some 125 girls and three teachers were admitted to an Afghanistan hospital on Wednesday after being poisoned in their classes with a type of spray, a Takhar provincial official said.

Hundreds of dolphins that washed up on Peruvian shores died of natural causes, a government official said in a radio interview Tuesday.

Two women and three men that were working for an aid group were kidnapped in a remote area of Afghanistan this week, authorities said.

A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced Wednesday to 33 years in prison for treason, officials told CNN.

French prosecutors have widened an investigation into former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s alleged participation in a prostitution ring.

Dioncounda Traore, Mali’s interim president, was beaten and rushed to a hospital after hundreds of protesters demanding his resignation stormed the presidential palace Monday.

Two men accused of murdering an Irish teacher on her honeymoon last year pleaded not guilty when they appeared in court in Mauritius on Tuesday, police on the Indian Ocean island said.

Abdelbeset al Megrahi died protesting his innocence over Lockerbie. Others, including some victims’ families, also believe he was not responsible for bombing the jet over Scotland in 1988. But if he didn’t do it, who did?