An investigative journalist whose exposés on the deep-rooted corruption in African soccer led to the downfall of a member of the high-powered FIFA Council was shot dead Wednesday, months after a Ghana politician called for retribution against him.

A Florida sheriff’s deputy was fired and nine people were released from jail after tests revealed that the substances used in some of his narcotics arrests were not actually drugs.

The Australian city of Melbourne is once against in mourning after another young woman brutally killed on her way from home from a comedy club – the second such murder in six months.

A 1,200 calligraphy masterpiece that has been loaned by Taiwan’s National Palace Museum for an exhibition in Japan is sparked widespread outrage in China.

The boyfriend of the 22-year-old rookie Louisiana police officer brutally shot and killed as she was heading to work the night shift is believed to be the person who pulled the trigger, police said Wednesday.

Two Michigan women were arrested Sunday for allegedly poisoning a recovery house manager’s macaroni and cheese by lacing it with heroin, police said.

A woman completed a historic ascent to one of India’s largest Hindu pilgrimage sites that until recently had been forbidden to females between the ages of 10 to 50.

Two teenage boys were rescued from a squalid Florida mobile home – one of whom had been held captive and repeatedly asexually abused by four men for nearly a year – and six men and a woman were arrested on human trafficking charges, authorities revealed Monday.

A city in central Spain is embroiled in controversy over the proposed installation of a sculpture of Satan that critics have said is just too joyful.

Dozens of dogs were killed after a fire erupted at a Chicago-area kennel on Monday morning.