HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe has charged a man on whose land the well-known Cecil the lion was shot by American dentist Walter James Palmer in July. Charges have not been filed against Palmer, according to prosecutors, while in Minnesota the dentist has reopened his practice. Prosecutors on Tuesday accused Honest …

SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. – A Florida couple — married 60 years — are still enjoying a tradition from their wedding day. Every anniversary they take a bite from the top layer of their wedding cake stored in a coffee can in their freezer. Ann and Ken Fredericks said they pour …

BAKU, Azerbaijan – Police in Azerbaijan have detained 21 people after they held a protest to demand justice for a man who died in police custody in the western town of Mingachevir. The Interior Ministry said the man, 27-year-old Bahruz Hajiyev, “unexpectedly jumped out of a third-floor window during questioning” …

BOSTON – A judge has rejected a motion by The Boston Globe to publicly release the names of jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Judge George O’Toole Jr.’s ruling Monday came more than three months after a federal jury convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) in the deadly 2013 attack …

SALEM, Mass. – A lawyer for a Massachusetts teen charged with killing his high school math teacher is refusing to comply with a judge’s order to turn over to the prosecution raw data of psychological testing performed on the suspect. Sixteen-year-old Philip Chism is charged with murder as an adult …

NEW ORLEANS – Former President Bush is returning to New Orleans — the scene of one of his presidency’s lowest points — to remember the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. He’s also coming to tout the region’s recovery from the costliest natural disaster in the nation. He’s delivering remarks Friday …

BEIJING – The more than 300 grade schools in the Chinese neighborhood shaken by this month’s deadly blasts will start the fall semester on time. The district government of Binhai in the port city of Tianjin said Sunday that all the schools in the district had completed registration work for …

PARIS – The European Court of Human Rights has upheld the case of three Tunisians expelled from Italy in 2011 in the wake of the Arab Spring uprising, ruling that the migrants had been subjected to degrading and inhuman treatment during four days in a detention center, suffered a collective …

A couple of years ago, I was talking to a young fiancee who was upset because her future in-laws didn’t like her. As she shared her experience, it was hard to believe that these adults, who were otherwise decent people, could be so socially tone deaf, so oblivious to their …

BANGUI, Central African Republic – The U.N. human rights chief says there needs to be greater accountability for international peacekeepers following of yet another sexual abuse allegation in Central African Republic. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, addressed the scandal Friday following his visit to …