Italy's highest criminal court ordered a whole new trial for Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend on Tuesday, overturning their acquittals in the gruesome slaying of her British roommate.The move extended a prolonged legal battle that has become a cause celebre in the United States and raised a host of questions about how the next phase of Italian justice would play out.Knox, now a 25-year-old University of Washington student in Seattle, called the decision by the Rome-based Court of Cas

BANGUI (AFP) ― Central African strongman Michel Djotodia on Monday dissolved the country’s institutions and declared transitional rule a day after a bloody coup that forced the president into exile and drew international condemnation.The former diplomat turned rebel leader, whose Seleka coalition took over the capital Bangui in a rapid-fire weekend assault, said he would rule by decree until elections are organized in three years.The African Union promptly suspended the coup-prone landlocked nat

KABUL (AFP) ― U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held a second round of talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Tuesday after the two put on a public show of unity in a bid to repair damaged ties.Kerry visited Afghanistan just after the United States ceded to a key long-standing demand of Karzai by delivering full control of Bagram prison, north of Kabul, to Afghan forces.Karzai had turned the fate of Bagram and its hundreds of detainees into a rallying cry for his push to take back

WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama challenged Congress Monday to “finish the job” of finalizing legislation aimed at overhauling the U.S. immigration system. With members of the House and Senate away on spring break, Obama made his most substantive remarks on the difficult issue in more than a month, saying he expects lawmakers to take up debate on a measure quickly and that he hopes to sign it into law as soon as possible. “We’ve known for years that our immigration system is broken,” the

One would think getting enough sleep would be beneficial even for doctors who keep busy, stressful schedules, and reduce the number of errors or medical accidents.However, it might just be the opposite, according to a report published by newspaper USA Today.In part to minimize errors by “sleepy doctors,” the U.S. Medical Board cut the length of uninterrupted working hours for doctors in training from 30 hours to 16 in 2011. 　However, the percentage of residents making mistakes rose from 15 to 20

The Indian unit of Ford Motor Co. has apologized for advertisements decried as demeaning to women, including one depicting Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with a trio of bound women in the trunk of a car. A Ford India spokeswoman said Monday that the company is investigating whether anyone at the automaker ever saw the print ads, which were never used commercially but appeared over the weekend on a website showcasing creative advertising. The ads caused an uproar online and