The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its clandestine torture flights program.

New countries have moved ahead of some Western democracies in the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, issued today, while the most repressive countries are still the same ones.

MEXICAN archaeologists have found what may be the most significant Aztec ruin in decades, with the unearthing of an altar and a monolith in the busy heart of Mexico City, Mayor Alejandro Encinas said today. The 15th century altar, part of the Aztec emp

United Methodist Church leaders helped launch a week of protest and civil disobedience against the war in Iraq by signing a declaration of peace in the capital, urging President Bush to pull US troops out of the country.

...raised his hands and shouted in Pashto, "De Khoday day para ma me vala!" according to his brother. "For God's sake, don't shoot me! At day's end, Waller would report to his chain of command that six enemy fighters had been killed in action.

Security forces took over a Guatemalan prison controlled for more than 10 years by inmates who produced drugs, lived in spacious homes with luxury goods and even rented space for stores and restaurants.

Military Intelligence had clear information about an impending kidnap attempt by Hezbollah shortly before the Lebanese group carried out its cross-border raid on July 12 according to an internal inquiry conducted by the IDF.

Armed, masked men have burst into a bar in Mexico and flung five human heads onto a crowded dance floor, in an apparent warning to a rival drug gang.

The last surviving passenger in the limousine in which US President John F Kennedy was assassinated has died.

Whenever U.S. officials wish to demonize someone, they inevitably compare him to Adolf Hitler. But how many people know how Hitler actually became a dictator? This is a cliff notes version. And this is a lesson we need to remember.