(MCT)A house with three rooms and a huge garden in Maryland is now on sale for $515,000. However, there is one thing the agent selling the house would probably prefer you not find out: It’s the site of three murders.According to state law, the agent does not necessarily need to tell buyers about crimes that have taken place in the house.The most recent owner, Brian Betts, who was a principal at Ga

May 29, 2011

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP)- After 16 years on the run, a frail and haggard Ratko Mladic was hauled before a judge Thursday _ the first step in facing charges for international war crimes, including the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.No longer the fearsome, bull-necked military commander, Mladic was arrested by intelligence agents in a raid before dawn a

May 27, 2011

Carla Bruni (AP)DEAUVILLE, France, (AFP) - France's first lady Carla Bruni, visibly pregnant, welcomed wives of G8 leaders to a working lunch on the sidelines of the group's summit on Thursday.Wearing an unbelted white dress and a black coat, she posed briefly for pictures with four of the spouses who came to Deauville with the G8 leaders.Neither 43-year-old Bruni nor her husband President Nicolas

May 27, 2011

President argues only Western allies have fortitude to promote democracyLONDON (AP) ― President Barack Obama stood in the historic grandeur of Westminster Hall and served notice to England and the world that the growing influence of countries like China, India and Brazil does not mean a diminished global role for America and its European allies.“The time for our leadership is now,” Obama declared

May 26, 2011

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ― Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parameters for a peace deal, outlined in a speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, fell far short of what is needed to resume negotiations, Palestinian officials said.Nabil Shaath, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Netanyahu’s insistence on keeping key parts of the territories the Palestinians want for their

May 25, 2011

The American and French flags hang over the Sofitel hotel Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York where International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, was staying Saturday and is accused of an alleged assault involving a maid. Strauss-Kahn was plucked from a first class seat on a Paris-bound Air France flight that was just about to leave the gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport abo

May 25, 2011

Authorities fear toll could rise as full scale of destruction becomes clearJOPLIN, Missouri (AP) ― Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-kilometer-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.It was the deadliest single twister in the

May 24, 2011

DUBLIN (AFP) - One of Barack Obama's presidential limousines on Monday became stuck on a ramp at the US embassy in Dublin, but US officials denied the car was "The Beast" which was carrying the president at the time.Earlier, Irish state radio station RTE reported that it was Obama's heavily armoured Cadillac which had become grounded, but a Secret Service spokesman later said "it was a spare limo

May 24, 2011

BERLIN (AFP) - A German insurance firm that admitted its top salesmen took part in a sex party with prostitutes during a company junket to Budapest said Monday it was probing allegations that it was not a one-off."We are extremely sure that since 2007 there have been no other cases," Alexandra Klemme, a spokeswoman for Ergo, told AFP. As to before 2007, "we are looking into it."The company said Th

May 24, 2011

Coworkers Cindy Albers, left, and Kim Hoosier hug on 20th Street near New Hampshire Ave in Joplin, MO., Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 116 people. (AP-Yonhap News)JOPLIN, Missouri (AP) _ Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search f

May 24, 2011

CAMDEN, New Jersey (AP) ― The charter bus arrived on a warm day in May a year ago, and when the doors opened, close to 50 people climbed aboard. They brought with them hopes for a better future, in decent homes, free of drugs and crime and all the woes that come from living on the margins.For days, months or years, they had been living in a ragtag city of tents, tucked away in the woods near Camde

May 23, 2011

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) ― An Icelandic volcano flung ash, smoke and steam kilometers into the air and dropped a thick layer of gray soot in an eruption far more forceful ― but likely far less disruptive ― than the one that grounded planes across Europe last year.The country’s main airport was closed Sunday and pilots were warned to steer clear of Iceland as areas close to the Grimsvotn volcano wer

May 23, 2011

RABAT, Morocco (AP) ― Moroccan police on Sunday spent hours chasing hundreds of pro-democracy activists through the streets of the capital in an effort to prevent any pro-reform demonstrations from taking place.Riot police armed with truncheons charged any attempts at protest gatherings, injuring some activists and hauling others off to waiting police trucks.Morocco’s Feb. 20 movement, which is ca

May 23, 2011