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Time.com via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 4:50 pm ET
Two years after her British roommate in Italy was found brutally murdered, the American college student and her former boyfriend are found guilty. But her family and other supporters say she was never given a real chance to prove her innocence
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 4:08 pm ET
Italian police arrested two Mafia leaders on Saturday, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said, a day after he was accused of links to the organisation.
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Los Angeles Times - 43 minutes ago
Italian tax police said Saturday that they had seized works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other masters in a crackdown on assets hidden by the disgraced founder of the collapsed dairy company Parmalat.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 3:49 pm ET
Police in Greece on Saturday detained dozens of alleged anarchists, including five from Italy, in raids on the eve of demonstrations to mark a teenager's killing by police.
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New York Times - Sat Dec 5, 3:49 pm ET
An S.U.V. trying to avoid debris on the Bruckner Expressway set off a three-vehicle crash involving a car driven by Mr. Brokaw.
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Washington Post - Sat Dec 5, 3:38 pm ET
Audrey Hedgepesth was in the shampoo aisle at CVS when she got the phone call that changed her life. She had been hired as a Bladensburg police officer, the caller said, a position created by federal stimulus money. "I started dancing in the middle of the aisle," recalled a grinning Hedgepesth, 23.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 3:25 pm ET
Boston police have scheduled a termination hearing for a police officer suspended for using a racial slur to describe black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 3:21 pm ET
Eleven men were arrested and a policewoman was taken to hospital Saturday after violence broke out at a far-right group's demonstration against Islamic extremism in central England, police said.
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AP via Yahoo! Sports - Sat Dec 5, 3:12 pm ET
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio said Saturday that players suspended for being present at a campus fight will not make the Spartans' upcoming bowl trip. Dantonio has kicked two players off the team and suspended eight others as police continue to investigate the Nov. 22 fight at a campus dorm involving players and fraternity members.
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Sports Illustrated - Sat Dec 5, 3:09 pm ET
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio said Saturday that players suspended for being present at a campus fight will not make the Spartans' upcoming bowl trip.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 3:08 pm ET
A pair of shootouts between troops and gunmen in northern Mexico have killed 13 people, including a bystander and a drug trafficker linked to the killing of a retired army officer.
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New York Times - Sat Dec 5, 3:03 pm ET
FIFA’s inaction has allowed fixing to flourish. Soccer’s governing body must increase its security operation and provide a way to report corruption.
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UPI - 1 hour 49 minutes ago
VIQUEQUE, Timor-Leste, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- The United Nations has returned control of the largest district in Timor-Leste to the country's police force, officials said Saturday.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 2:53 pm ET
Police arrested two navy officers on Saturday on suspicion of conspiring to overthrow Turkey's Islamist-rooted government and three retired military commanders testified in an investigation into a separate plot.
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New York Times - Sat Dec 5, 2:48 pm ET
Tensions erupted when the police tried to remove thousands of squatters in a forest in Kailali District, about 400 miles west of the capital, Katmandu.