CHICAGO (AP) – The allegation of a mishandled investigation, combined with newly discovered evidence in one of the nation’s oldest crimes to ever reach trial means a 76-year-old former security guard convicted and sentenced to life in the 1957 slaying of a 7-year-old girl in a northern Illinois could soon …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The extraordinary legal fight pitting the Obama administration against technology giant Apple Inc. ended unexpectedly after the FBI said it used a mysterious method without Apple’s help to hack into a California mass shooter’s iPhone. Left unanswered, however, were questions about how the sudden development would affect …

BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgian federal prosecutors on Monday said three more people have been ordered held on charges of participating in terrorist activities. Prosecutors did not immediately release details on the alleged terrorist acts or whether they were linked to last week’s suicide bombings at Brussels Airport and in the …

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) – The death toll from a massive suicide bombing targeting Christians gathered on Easter in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore rose to 70 on Monday, underscoring the ability of the militants to stage large-scale attacks despite a months-long military offensive targeting their hideouts. Meanwhile, in the …

PARIS (AP) – The man who nearly stole over 70 million euros from France’s business and banking elite is a serial manipulator who sees fraud not as a crime but as a way of life, according to those behind a new film based on the con artist’s exploits. “Je Compte …

SHANGHAI (AP) – China is emerging as a global hub for money laundering, not just for Chinese but for criminals around the world, The Associated Press has found. There are a number of options in China for cleaning dirty money, including through major state-run banks, import-export schemes, and informal money …

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Jaffar Ismail says his daughter Amal sometimes asks why he and his wife abandoned her in the chaos of their bombed-out neighborhood in the southern Syrian town of Nawa. Fleeing the town after a bomb dropped by a warplane flattened a house a few doors down …

NEW YORK (AP) – Even in an era of high-tech crime-fighting, the best line of defense against a Brussels-style attack on airports and subways has four legs and a tail. Dogs, with their exquisitely sensitive noses, have been trained in recent years to pick up the scent of explosives on …

BOUSRA, Cambodia (AP) – For generations, the indigenous Bunong were famous as the elephant keepers and masters of the forests in eastern Cambodia. They called the fertile, rolling hills of their ancestral homeland “meh ne,” or mother. From its rich red soil, they harvested rice, pumpkins and bananas. From the …

BEIJING (AP) – Authorities in southwestern China had apparently thought their Cultural Revolution-style public sentencing of eight workers who took to the streets demanding back wages would stand as a warning to others at a time of a slowing economy and rising worker unrest. Instead, the parading of the three …