An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans - all but one of them CIA agents - and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.
A Chinese-American academic has been sentenced to eight years in prison for selling human skulls unearthed in China to buyers overseas, state media reported.
A sister of Cuba's former long-time leader, Fidel Castro, has admitted spying for the CIA in the 1960s.
The FBI says it rescued 52 children, one just 10 years old, from prostitution rings during nationwide raids that led to nearly 700 arrests.
A scientist credited with helping discover evidence of water on the moon was arrested Monday on charges of attempting to pass along classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer.
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Prosecutors who used wiretaps to make their insider trading case against the billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the hedge fund firm Galleon Group, say they will use similar tactics to fight future crimes on Wall Street.
The High Court has ruled that US intelligence documents containing details of the alleged torture of a former UK resident can be released.
Some 100 people face 20 years in jail following a two-year investigation by the FBI.
"Feminists for Choice alerts us to a new Oklahoma law (yes, law, not "proposed legislation" or "some kind of sick joke") set to go into effect Nov. 1 that would collect detailed data about each abortion performed -- and post it all on a public Web site...."
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