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BEIJING – A Romanian TV station released a video Saturday that it said shows Chinese forces fatally shooting a Tibetan refugee who was with a group of people trying to flee to Nepal in an incident that prompted an international outcry. The video from Pro TV shows a distant figure …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A defendant in Saddam Hussein’s Kurdish genocide trial told the court Tuesday that his lawyer wanted to end his boycott of the trial, but when the judge summoned the attorney, he failed to appear. And the chief defense lawyer for Saddam denied in an interview that any …

LOS ANGELES – Mel Gibson called his DUI arrest “a blessing” and also told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an interview Thursday that he needed “public humiliation on a global scale” to get sober. But Jewish leaders, addiction experts and media-crisis managers say he must do more to repair his reputation …