PANAMA CITY – A Panamanian court has sentenced two North Koreans to 12 years in prison in absentia for arms trafficking. The two men left the country in 2014. The alleged smugglers were crew members on a North Korean ship that attempted to pass through the Panama Canal with contraband …

SANAA, Yemen – Al-Qaida’s Yemeni branch has killed two men accused of spying for the United States and hung their bodies off a bridge. Witnesses say al-Qaida gunmen in the southern city of Mukalla read out charges before shooting the two men, one of whom was accused of guiding the …

Little more than two years after United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-moon inaugurated a new justice system to safeguard employee rights, the judges he appointed to the main tribunal have unanimously charged that the U.N. chief is trying to “undermine the integrity and independence” of their court in a bid to …

Developing–A disgruntled ex employee with Exxon surrenders after a tense stand-off with police at a New Jersey office building Tuesday afternoon. The 63-year-old man, who was not immediately identified, turned himself in to Police negotiators after barricading himself in a bathroom or closet on the first floor of the Paramus …

We’re ready for your close-up, Mr. Rex. The Jurassic is merely the stage in a new TV series from the Discovery Channel. In “Dinosaur Revolution,” which premiers Sunday night at 9 p.m. EST, dinosaurs are characters with personalities that “act out” brief or even hour-long vignettes — and it’s all …

WASHINGTON — On May 10, Japanese scientist Kokichi Sugihara claimed to have discovered a technology that every sixth grader knows to be impossible: a magnet that attracts wood. In front of a crowd of hundreds, he played a video showing four wooden balls rolling up four ramps, supposedly pulled uphill …

God or the Big Bang? Why not both? Things aren’t all black and white in the Vatican, it seems. Pope Benedict XVI made headlines last week during a sermon that made a case for the similarity of science and religion, two disciplines on quest for the truth. Christopher T. Baglow, …

Believe it or not, nobody knows for sure the true height of the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest. It was generally thought to be 29,028 feet high after it was measured by an Indian survey in 1954. But China says the world’s highest mountain (which it calls Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) is …

Reports of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s resorting to bartering for essential imports in order to bypass economic restrictions show signs that sanctions have been effective in economically pressuring and isolating Iran, according to experts. As a fresh round of sanctions hit Iran again this week, the country’s hard-line regime …

The mainstream media’s bias towards the Tea Party movement has been undeniable since its emergence in February 2009. It has been systematically ignored, belittled, marginalized, and ostracized by political, academic, and media elites who have portrayed the movement as being driven by racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. Indeed, Kate Zernike’s …