Mexican soldiers have killed a leader of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel in a shootout, providing a badly needed victory to President Felipe Calderon in his war against the criminal organizations that have vied for control of the country.

An investigation has highlighted the extent of child prostitution and sex tourism in the north-east of Brazil. The country is overtaking Thailand as a destination for sex tourism and on attempts to curb the problem.

President Barack Obama is going to the heart of the U.S. auto industry to push an important election-year claim: his administration's unpopular auto industry bailout has turned into an economic good-news story.

Asian markets advanced Monday. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index inched up 0.1% to 20,840 and China's Shanghai Composite Index advanced 0.6% to 2,589. In Japan the Nikkei 225 Index rose 0.8% to end the day at 9,504

He first told them that Walmart had hired a Mexican gang to kill them over a worker's comp claim. And it only got weirder from there.

WikiLeaks today released over 75,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan. This leak covers attacks on innocent people committed by US forces, incidents of friendly-fire, and official speculation that Pakistan is assisting the Taliban rather than fighting them. If you want to understand the war then you need to read this!

A man who ran a notorious torture prison where more than 14,000 people died during the Khmer Rouge regime was found guilty of war crimes Monday and sentenced to 35 years in prison -- with five years taken off that sentence for time served.

Founder Julian Assange Says "No Reason" to Doubt Reliability of Documents

LONDON (Reuters) - BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward will collect a pay and pension package worth at least 11.8 million pounds ($18.03 million) when he steps down from his role at the company, the Times newspaper reported on Sunday.||The Times said...

A ‘pain ray’ that blasts the enemy with unbearable heat waves has been pulled out of Afghanistan by the US military. The Active Denial System (ADS), which cost about £42 million to develop, was on the brink of being deployed to disperse members of the Taliban as they attacked US forces. The weapon, which causes immense pain to subjects but no...