The daughter of a woman accused of orchestrating a cruel Internet hoax against a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide took the witness stand Friday to defend her mother.

A Missouri woman knew her 13-year-old neighbor was depressed and suicidal when she sent cruel Internet messages to the teenager, her former assistant testified.

Somali pirates who hijacked the Saudi-owned supertanker Sirius Star Thursday demanded $25 million in ransom and set a 10-day deadline.

Law enforcement authorities arrested an 81-year-old man who illegally sold powerful prescription pain relievers.

The man who held up a Vermont general store apologized to the owner during the robbery. The police say he’s likely not a career criminal.

An Anchorage pediatrician died after a snowmobile slammed into his dog sled during a mushing excursion in northwest Alaska.

A white South African teenager received four life sentences for opening fire on a group of black children, killing four and wounding eight.

Germany bans the Hezbollah television station Al Manar on the grounds of violating international understanding.

The killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant by seven high school students was part of a spree in which the teenagers tormented other immigrants while armed with knives and BB guns, prosecutors said.

Obese people in Canada have the right to two seats on an airplane for the price of one on domestic flights, the country's supreme court ruled on Thursday.

Nebraska lawmakers are expected to add a 30-day age limited to safe-haven law. Six Nebraska senators will also form a task force on child drop-offs.

Iraqi Col. Abbas Fadhil says his troops donated money to California wildfire victims to send the message, ‘we are a family.’

A Chinese official says a little over 19,000 victims have been identified from the Sichuan earthquake in May.

The U.N.'s peacekeeping force, numbering 17,000, has been unable to fulfill its primary mandate of protecting civilians in eastern Congo.

This ancient land is telling the world that it has a trendy, new replacement for its dreaded poppy crop: sweet, juicy pomegranates.

Four Camp Pendleton-based Marines, including one known as "Psycho," have pleaded not guilty in the execution-style slayings of a fellow Marine and his wife.

A Louisiana man claims that his cell phone saved his life.

A 24-year-old man was arrested after police say he stabbed another man in an apparent road rage incident outside a Steak'n Shake restaurant.

Thirteen years after a young model's body was found at the bottom of a 180-foot cliff in Sydney, her British boyfriend has been convicted of her murder.

Prosecutors argued that the defendants in the Fort Dix terror plot case used paintball games as training for an attack against the Army training center.