Prosecutors will retry for murder a teenager who is accused of gunning down a gay classmate execution-style in their Southern California junior high school classroom in 2008, the Ventura County district attorney's office said Wednesday.

A senior Libyan official has denied abuse of captured Colonel Gaddafi loyalists is widespread after allegations of torture were made to Sky News by imprisoned soldiers.

After 10 years in Afghanistan, the US still lacks the knowledge to bring the conflict to a successful end, retired Army Gen Stanley McChrystal says.

Ed Miliband says Labour would lower the cap on student tuition fees to £6,000, according to newspaper reports.

A search for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is intensifying across Libya as revolutionary forces appear to be gaining the upper hand in the battle for his hometown of Sirte.

First Read: Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain claimed victory in today’s Florida Straw Poll, receiving more than double the amount of votes of front-runner Rick Perry.

Herman Cain upsets GOP front-runner Rick Perry with 37 percent of the vote in Florida’s straw poll. NBC’s Mike Viqueira reports. (Nightly News)

The defense had said James “Bob” Ward loved his family, while prosecutors contended the millionaire’s demeanor — along with the evidence — proved he murdered his wife.