Mayor Bloomberg said it was time to hold major airlines and large airplane manufacturers accountable for the thousands of deaths caused each year by illegal airplanes.

Teenagers using cell phones, Web cams and the Internet to share naked images of themselves have prompted a Utah attorney general to revisit how such cases should be handled.

Amnesty International has urged Iran to drop from its penal code the punishment of death by stoning, a fate awaiting 11 convicted criminals, the group says. The majority sentenced to death by stoning are women.

A 13-year-old girl released from the county Juvenile Assessment Center landed back inside after she tried to rob a Burger King at knifepoint over a cheeseburger, police said.

Language was no barrier to the confessions of two Mexicans accused of kidnapping and torturing a Louisville contractor to extort money, a federal magistrate judge has ruled.