Her father waits behind a glass wall, clothed in the jail standard gray-and-white striped shirt and pants. He has tidied up some since their last visit: What's left of his thinning hair has been trimmed, and his face is clean of stubble.
Iranian official media said Tuesday that one of the detained members of an alleged Israeli-linked espionage network was involved with the elite Revolutionary Guards.
Last year, when state-imposed bans closed the last three U.S. horse slaughterhouses, a record 78,000 horses were exported to Canada and Mexico for slaughter, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics compiled by the Humane Society.
Three young girls whose disappearances set off a nationwide Amber Alert after their mother was found slain at their home were found safe Tuesday, authorities said.
The widows of two men killed in a 2006 coal mine fire in West Virginia settled a wrongful death lawsuit against Massey Energy Co., attorneys for both sides announced Monday.
A Georgia priest facing excommunication for supporting the ordination of women said Friday he plans to visit the Vatican with a contingent of fellow priests and a bishop to appeal the decision.
The state of Florida has agreed to pay the nation's biggest producer of sugar cane $1.34 billion under a revised deal to obtain vast tracts of farm land to restore the Everglades.
A judge in Chicago says the Metra transit system must pay $11 million to settle two wrongful death lawsuits stemming from a deadly 2005 train derailment.
Two men took a 16-year-old girl from New York to Indiana and subjected her to sexual abuse, forced labor and beatings during a six-month ordeal, federal prosecutors said.
Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity's holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus' tomb.
Saudi Arabia foiled a 2003 terror plot by militants who planned to hijack a plane and blow it up over a densely populated American city, a Saudi official said Sunday.
North Korea's military warned Tuesday it would attack South Korea and reduce it to "debris" if Seoul continues what it says are confrontational activities against the communist country.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said impeaching his interior minister over his admission he had a fake degree from Oxford University would be illegal.
Circumstances surrounding Ruben Navarro's death will be center stage in opening statements scheduled for �Monday in the trial of Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, who is accused of hastening Navarro's death.
Delivery giant UPS placed orders for seven hydraulic hybrid trucks, a technology that delivers significant reductions in fuel use and pollution.
Some in San Francisco want to wrest control of the city's electricity from Pacific Gas and Electric Co., and are linking support of a ballot measure to global warming and energy independence.
After a troubled history, the V-22 Osprey - half helicopter, half plane - has been ferrying troops and equipment across Iraq for just over a year without a major incident.
Calling it a sign of things to come, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday helped unveil a facility that concentrates the sun's rays via mirrors to produce electricity.
Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it would delay sending an ambassador to Baghdad, saying there was no point sending a diplomat who would have to stay inside a "fortress" to stay safe.
The first witness to take the stand in the trial of five men accused of plotting to attack soldiers at the Army's Fort Dix testified Tuesday that civilians commonly have access to the base in New Jersey.
Somali forces raided one of the many ships hijacked off the country's coast Sunday as a deadline loomed in a standoff aboard another, arms-laden vessel, officials said.
Several thousand Indonesians from across the archipelago held a rally in Bali on Saturday to oppose a controversial anti-pornography bill that parliament may vote on next week.
An Ohio-based charity that the U.S. government says is linked to Hamas is demanding that officials unfreeze its assets.
Sen. Ted Stevens is a crafty politician skilled in bagging hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gifts without getting noticed, a prosecutor said Thursday in his corruption trial.
A federal appeals court says it was constitutional for the United States to require visitors from two dozen Arab and Muslim countries and North Korea to register with immigration authorities.
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