Fetuses for black magic found stashed in luggage

Six roasted fetuses covered with gold for black magic rituals were found in a Bangkok hotel room, and the gruesome discovery led to the arrest of a British citizen Friday, Thai police said.

Wrecked Costa Concordia to be raised from sea floor

Salvage experts outlined their plan Friday to raise the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner from the sea floor off Italy in one piece and tow it from the disaster site.

When your name is also crude Arabic slang

France's new Socialist government is already causing ripples throughout a Europe struggling to balance government budgets without making ordinary people's lives miserable, but it has created a completely different problem in the Middle East.

200-year-old shipwreck found

A wooden ship believed to be over 200 years old was discovered during a recent exploration of the northern Gulf of Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S.

13 years old and taking care of mom

At 13 years old, Nickolaus Dent is his mother's primary caregiver.

Kids take exams, then flee gunfire

Tumsifu Gilaine was at school when she first heard the gun battles.

49 headless bodies: Just another Mexico drug war crime?

On Sunday, 49 decapitated bodies were found on a major highway outside Monterrey, Mexico, which is about 80 miles southwest of the U.S.

Chinese tycoon gets life in prison for smuggling, bribery

A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Lai Changxing, a tycoon who spent more than a decade as a fugitive in Canada, to life in prison for smuggling and bribery, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

Rights group slam guest list at Queen Elizabeth's lunch

Rights groups have slammed a lunch being hosted by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Friday for including monarchs criticized over their countries' human rights records.

No remorse by 'Butcher of Bosnia'

Seventeen years after the end of the war, Ratko Mladic gives the impression he is still on the battlefield in what was once Yugoslavia, staring down his enemy, glowering across the courtroom.

How much more can Greece take?

Confusion, fear, frustration -- emotions are running high among Greece's people as they face the prospect of new elections next month and massive uncertainty over the country's economic future.

Iran threatens to sue Google in map flap

Iran has threatened legal action against Google for not labeling the Persian Gulf on its maps.

Al Qaeda berates Yemen leader

Al-Qaeda's leader is calling for the Yemeni people to rise up against the country's new president, portraying him as the stooge of the unpopular former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the United States.

Acid poured on woman's face for 'no'

When 18-year-old Mumtaz walks into a room the first thing you notice about her is the patchwork of painful puffy red scars that stretch across her face.

Should I cancel my Europe trip?

In the last decade of the 20th century, the Turkish lira fell in value 1,000 times against the U.S.