BOSTON – Somewhere along an industrial stretch of river pocked with rotting piers and towering salt piles north of Boston lies the answer to one of the great riddles of the Revolutionary war. Where is the final resting place of the British schooner, the HMS Diana? The river — known …

SEOUL, South Korea – Kim Jong Il’s childhood in a secret guerrilla camp and early years before becoming leader of communist North Korea are the focus of a multipart film in the works in Pyongyang, state media said Thursday — widely seen as another sign the ailing 67-year-old is paving …

The Taliban is buying children as young as 7 to be used as homicide bombers against U.S., Afghan and Pakistani targets, The Washington Times reported. Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan’s top Taliban leader, is paying between $7,000 and $14,000 for each child bomber, according to a Pakistani official who spoke to the …

MUNICH – The legal saga of John Demjanjuk neared its final chapter Monday as prosecutors set the stage for one of Germany’s highest-profile war crime trials in years — formally charging the retired U.S. auto worker with involvement in the murder of 27,900 people at a Nazi death camp. The …

MOMBASSA, Kenya – Undeterred by U.S. and French hostage rescues that killed five bandits, Somali pirates brazenly hijacked four more ships in the Gulf of Aden, the waterway at the center of the world’s fight against piracy. Pirates have vowed to retaliate for deaths of their colleagues_ and the top …

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will consider whether prosecutors have to face a lawsuit from two men whose convictions for killing a retired police officer were set aside. The justices said Monday they’ll hear an appeal in the fall from former Pottawattamie County, Iowa, prosecutors. They are being sued by …

BILGE, Turkey – A Turkish court charged at least eight people including government-linked village guards in the killing of 44 people at an engagement ceremony in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, the interior minister said Wednesday. The Monday night attack — in which masked assailants gunned down the betrothed couple, the Islamic …

HONOLULU – The FBI released video footage Friday showing waves rushing in and violently tossing cars and trucks in a parking lot as a deadly tsunami struck American Samoa last week. The dramatic video was taken on the morning of Sept. 29 from a stationary security camera at the FBI …

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela’s socialist leader wished his hard-line Iranian counterpart good luck in his re-election bid in Iran’s presidential ballot Friday. Speaking to supporters Thursday, Hugo Chavez called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “a courageous fighter for the Islamic Revolution, the defense of the Third World, and in the struggle against imperialism” …

They are crossing the border illegally and violently displacing the indigenous population whose homes and possessions they either destroy or occupy. They are attacking the young, the elderly, and especially the girls and women, whom they kidnap, forcibly convert, or traffic into brothels. The locals are terrified of them. The …