BEIJING (AP) - The wife of China's jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner has written an open letter to new Chinese leader Xi Jinping to protest an 11-year prison term given to her brother, the family's lawyer said Friday. (Source: Associated Pres... [Full Article]
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A Muslim man whose attack on a Buddhist woman set off sectarian rioting in Myanmar's northeast has been sentenced to 26 years in prison, a local politician said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Sesame Street - home of Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and Elmo - rarely incites controversy. But on Sunday the website of the Public Broadcasting Corporation's endlessly influential children's education show uploaded a curious feature called &q... [Full Article]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Former NFL star Chad Johnson was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail for a probation violation in a domestic violence case by a judge who angrily rejected a no-jail plea deal after Johnson playfully slapped his attorney o... [Full Article]
HUAIROU, China (AP) - A court sentenced the brother-in-law of China's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison Sunday - an unusually harsh punishment for a business dispute that the activist's wife immediately de... [Full Article]
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) - An Egyptian judge on Saturday released from jail two policemen who were convicted of beating a young man to death in a killing that helped inspire the country's 2011 uprising. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (AP) - A jailed member of the punk group Pussy Riot has ended her 11-day hunger strike Saturday after prison authorities met her demands, an activist said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
KAIROUAN, Tunisia (AP) - A court convicted the Tunisian member of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen Tuesday for carrying an "incendiary object" and fined her $182. She remains in custody pending more serious charges. (Source: Associated Pr... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - A former slaughterhouse worker was jailed for life on Thursday for abducting and killing five-year-old April Jones in a case that prompted one of the most intensive police searches in British history. April, who had cerebral palsy,... [Full Article]
CAIRO (AP) - It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept auto... [Full Article]