A psychiatrist says that the German archdiocese led by the future Pope Benedict XVI ignored his warnings in the early 1980s about a priest accused of sexually abusing boys.
Land acquisition for expanding cities and industry has created pockets of instant wealth, creating a new economic caste in India: nouveau riche farmers.
Building the health care legislation was not a shopping spree, but more like a trip to the local fruit stand with a set amount of money in hand and every item clearly marked.
Officials drew Congressional rebuke when they decided to delay work on a decade-long project to develop a modernized information system to combat crime and terrorism.
Agents cracked down on a gang in El Paso, Tex., to determine whether it was behind the deaths of three people tied to the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez.
The South Carolina governor agreed to pay $74,000 to settle charges that his travel and campaign spending violated state ethics laws, but he continued to deny wrongdoing.
Democrats unveiled the completed version of the health care legislation they intend to bring to a vote, saying that it would extend insurance coverage to most of those who lack it.
His television portrayal of Davy Crockett catapulted him to stardom and inspired one of America's greatest merchandising fads, in which hundreds of thousands of children wore coonskin caps.