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Police found a woman’s decapitated body in a Mexican border city on Saturday, alongside a handwritten sign saying she was killed in retaliation for her postings on a social networking site. The gruesome killing may be the third so far this month in which people in Nuevo Laredo were killed by a drug cartel for what they said on the internet.

Troy Davis is executed in Georgia for the shooting of a policeman in 1989, after his final appeal was rejected by the US Supreme Court.

Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia at 7 p.m. in the killing of a Savannah police officer 22 years ago.

Human remains found Saturday in Sunol Canyon in Alameda County have been identified as those of missing nursing student Michelle Le, Hayward police said Monday night. But the Alameda County coroner has yet to determine how Le died. The suspect in Le's slaying, former high school friend Giselle Esteban, 27, of Union City made a brief appearance Monday morning at the Hayward Hall of Justice but did not enter a plea. She will return to court next week.

Eleven people -- six in India and five in Nepal -- died when a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck the northern Indian state of Sikkim near the border between the two nations Sunday night, police said.

A gunman killed a person Sunday at a central Florida home, then wounded two others at a church about a block away, authorities said. It was unknown if a suspect had been caught.

An 18-year-old Bowie State University student was fatally stabbed Thursday night by her roommate during a fight in a campus dormitory, Maryland State Police said early Friday.

Hundreds of thousands of people are rallying to support Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. They not only oppose capital punishment but they also believe the state could put an innocent man to death. The case is packed with drama: the murder of an off-duty police officer; conflicting eyewitness testimony; last-minute court decisions sparing a condemned man's life and global dignitaries who say they fear an innocent man could die.

Swiss banking giant UBS said Thursday that a rogue trader has caused it an estimated loss of $2 billion, stunning a beleaguered banking industry that has proven vulnerable to unauthorized trades. Police in London said they arrested a 31-year-old UBS trader, Kweku Adoboli, in the alleged fraud. UBS declined to confirm his name.

A gunman apparently was motivated by revenge against a Good Samaritan when he opened fire, killing a 3-year-old and leaving a pregnant woman and her toddler critically wounded, police said.