Retailers are increasingly using ambient scents to induce shoppers to spend more and perhaps behave a little more kindly toward fellow shoppers.

Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier laughed at the notion he was a tyrant and claimed he had introduced democracy to his homeland.

Canadian captive Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to all five terrorism charges against him in the US war-crimes tribunal at Guantánamo Bay.

A killer whale at the SeaWorld amusement park in central Florida killed a trainer on Wednesday, a sheriff’s spokesperson said.