A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported ... The official campaign encouraging people to vote "yes" in the Scottish independence referendum is to be launched, ahead of a possible vote in 2014 ... French President Francois Hollande makes an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to explain his decision to pull troops out a year earlier than planned ... Two officers of the container ship that ran aground off New Zealand causing its worst maritime spill are jailed for seven months ... Trading in Bankia shares is suspended amid reports that it is going to ask for a big government bailout later on Friday ... Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati confirms that 11 Lebanese Shia pilgrims kidnapped in Syria have been released after being abducted in Syria on Tuesday ... A "disoriented" man accused of rushing the cockpit of an American Airlines plane was arrested at the Miami International Airport ... A Florida man was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that swindled hundreds of victims out of $8 million ... The Senate Ethics committee has admonished Republican Sen. Tom Coburn over his involvement with a staffer to former Sen. John Ensign ... A young penguin which escaped from a Tokyo aquarium is caught after more than two months on the loose in the Japanese capital ... |