Francisco Jose Garzon, the train driver of the big train crash in northeast Spain last week, was charged Sunday with 79 counts of homicide by professional recklessness and a yet to be determined number of counts by causing injury by professional recklessness.
In an effort to extradite Edward Snowden back to the United States, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder assured Russia that the U.S. would try him in a civilian court, and would not seek the death penalty against him. Russian President's Vladimir Putin 's spokesman again ruled out hopes for Holder to get Snowden extradited.
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of imprisoning and torturing three women for a decade, agreed Friday to plead guilty and serve a life sentence without parole, plus 1,000 years.
More than 100 people suspected of Mafia involvement in Italy were arrested Friday as police launched two separate operations near Rome and in the country's southern Calabria region.
