Soldiers opened fire on a crowd after curfew and killed two people, witnesses said Wednesday, just days after fighting between Christians and Muslims in the area left more than 200 dead including dozens of children.
Hundreds of people swarmed the streets of Jos on Wednesday morning, where one truck’s windshield was a spider web of bullet [...]

Authorities say all six people killed in last week’s pre-dawn bus crash on an Arizona interstate were Mexican citizens.
The bus — operated by Van Nuys, Calif.-based Tierra Santa Inc. — was traveling from the central Mexican state of Zacatecas to Los Angeles. It was headed to Phoenix on Friday to change drivers when it [...]

Australian scientists said Wednesday that the discovery of a genetically distinct colony of Tasmanian devils may save the species from being wiped out by a contagious cancer that has decimated the population.
So far, the colony in northwestern Tasmania state has proven immune to the face cancer that has ravaged the iconic animal — made famous [...]

Top Egyptian cleric Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, whose moderate views angered conservative Muslims, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, the state-owned news agency reported. He was 81.
Tantawi was the grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s pre-eminent theological institute. Sunni Islam is the faith’s mainstream sect, to which the [...]

Indonesia’s president on Wednesday confirmed that a bombmaker believed to be behind the Bali bombings was killed in a Jakarta raid and vowed to keep hunting extremists in a landmark address to Australia’s parliament.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Dulmatin, an Al-Qaeda trained bomb specialist with a US bounty of $10 million on his head, was [...]

It was 2005 when Bruce Barcomb received the call he’d been awaiting for nearly three decades: Police had finally identified the man who raped and murdered his little sister in a remote canyon on a dark night in 1977.
Police told Barcomb the suspect, Rodney James Alcala, was already on death row for killing a 12-year-old [...]

Relatives of the victim sobbed and held each other as a judge handed down a life prison term Tuesday for a doctor convicted of killing his wife by lacing her calcium supplement with cyanide so he could be with his mistress.
Yazeed Essa, 41, won’t be eligible for parole for at least 20 years.
Essa, who didn’t [...]

The government will unveil a pre-election budget on March 24, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday, fuelling expectations of a general election in May.
Brown added that Britain’s economic recovery “remains very fragile” and warned of “bumps in the road” ahead.
But in a personal appeal to voters, he said he would “not let them down” in [...]

The U.S. State Department apologized on Tuesday for dismissive comments its spokesman made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s call for “jihad,” often translated as “armed struggle,” against Switzerland.
“I understand that my personal comments were perceived as a personal attack,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters. “These comments do not reflect U.S. policy and were [...]

An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt.
Nathaniel Brown, 51, arrived for work at the nation’s largest university dressed in dark clothing, a hooded [...]