Former Afghan President and peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani has been assassinated by a suicide bomber hiding an explosive in his turban.

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency Tuesday for death-row inmate Troy Davis, clearing the way for his execution for the 1989 shooting death of a Savannah, Georgia, police officer.

Each year, 75,000 witnesses identify criminal suspects. Yet, as the New Jersey Supreme Court has acknowledged in a recent landmark case, there is “a troubling lack of reliability in eyewitness identifications.”

Witnesses began describing the final moments of and futile attempts to save a Connecticut mother and her two daughters inside their burning home, opening the trial Monday for one of the men who authorities claim is responsible for their murders.

Violent crime in the United States declined 6% last year, according to statistics compiled by the FBI and released Monday.

The leaders of Greece, France and Germany say Greece is an “integral” part of the eurozone, amid market speculation that Greece might default on its debts.

The leaders of Greece, France and Germany have said the debt-ridden country is an “integral” part of the eurozone.

A Congressman introduced an amendment to the TSA funding bill today that would put an end to the “naked” images currently produced by full-body scanners at U.S. airports.

Whale watchers off the coast of Southern California are getting a very close-up look at blue whales, the largest animals on earth. A pod of these creatures has been seen only a few miles off shore, in search of krill, their main food source. NBC’s Miguel Almaguer reports. (Nightly News)

Police searching the Utah desert in connection with the Susan Powell, who vanished in 2009, find human remains near Topaz Mountain, NBC station KSL reports.