A Sarasota lawyer has admitted participating in what authorities have said was an $82.7 million mortgage loan scheme that defrauded seven banks. ...more

February 4, 2009

The Bush administration will mount a last-ditch push this week to muster international backing for a relatively small U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia, in an effort to help stem piracy and prevent the resurgence of Islamic militants in the lawless east African nation, according to State Department officials. ...more

December 15, 2008

Help for hundreds of thousands of Somalis is in jeopardy, two Western aid groups said Friday, after Islamic insurgents forced one group to suspend some operations and threatened the other. ...more

October 4, 2008

The cats of New Zealand will just have to be judged by someone else. A federal judge denied Wednesday a bid by a defendant charged in an $83 million mortgage loan scheme to leave the United States to judge a cat show. ...more

August 14, 2008

The cats of New Zealand will just have to be judged by someone else. A federal judge this morning denied a bid by a defendant charged in an $83 million mortgage loan scheme to leave the United States to judge a cat show. ...more

August 13, 2008

Two men accused of an $83 million mortgage loan scheme are asking a judge to let them travel while they are free on bond. ...more

August 12, 2008

Two men charged in an $83 million mortgage loan scheme are asking a judge to let them travel while they are free on bond. One of the men wants to judge a cat show in New Zealand, and the other wants to travel for his real estate consulting business. ...more

August 11, 2008

At a time of drought, skyrocketing food prices, crippling inflation and intensifying street fighting, many of the aid workers whom millions of Somalis depend on for survival are fleeing their posts or, in some cases, the country. ...more

July 20, 2008