A Syrian family who escaped ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa has described seeing an 11-year-old boy's arm chopped off as punishment by the terror group's religious police.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York said Thursday that it has created a compensation program for people who were sexually abused by priests or deacons and are willing to forego lawsuits in exchange for an award to be determined by an independent mediator.
Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova has been stripped of her bronze medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after her doping samples were retested and came back positive for steroids.
A man freed from prison after spending 18 years behind bars for a murder he said he didn't commit is fighting for a declaration of innocence that could allow him to receive compensation.
Albania's Parliament has approved six laws on judicial reforms that are considered a key requirement to persuade the European Union to launch membership negotiations.
The leader of a 41-day standoff at a national wildlife refuge in Oregon testified that he orchestrated the takeover to take "a hard stand" against the federal government's control of public lands and said the occupiers would not be successful unless they carried guns.