NEW YORK — The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents dropped by 9
The department's report for the 2014 fiscal year shows 6,441 adoptions from abroad, down from 7,094 in 2013 and about 74
Trish Maskew, chief of the State Department's Adoption Division, said it was difficult to predict when the number of foreign adoptions might start to rise again.
As usual, China accounted for the most children adopted in the U.S., but its total of 2,040 was far below the peak of 7,903 in 2005.
An Indian restaurant owner in Britain has been charged with manslaughter following the death of a customer after eating curry prepared at the restaurant,
A Canadian journalist undergoing his second trial in Egypt on widely derided terror-related charges will have to wait nearly a month for his next court hearing.
Anuj Sapra and Arti Sapra won the judgement on March 11 in Manhattan Supreme Court for the incident at Club 9 1/2, owned by Ten's Cabaret, when two men beat them up with baseball bats, according to their Indian-American attorney Ravi Batra.
OTTAWA — The federal government's omnibus security bill would hand extremists what they want by shackling civil liberties, a prominent aboriginal lawyer and activist says.
SEATTLE — Two men accused of rustling a 25-kilogram bronze sculpture of a cowboy out of a Seattle antique store and then making a run for the border have been arrested by Canadian authorities.
GANDER, N.L. — The passenger load on a Qatar Airways flight grew by one when a woman went into labour and delivered her baby before the aircraft touched down.