US treasure ship captain is freed
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The US captain of a boat seized by a Spanish warship in a row over shipwreck treasure is released.
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An Australian who became the first person convicted at an American war crimes trial since World War II was freed from prison on Saturday, after completing his U.S. imposed sentence.
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When an exploration team member discovered an anomaly on the ocean floor that turned out to be a $500 million shipwreck, he found a way to get his own share of the booty -- insider trading, according to the U.S. regulators who nabbed him.
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Most remaining Pakistani prisoners held at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp are freed, officials say.
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A U.S. astronaut accused of trying to kidnap and murder a romantic rival for a fellow astronaut returned to Houston on Wednesday after she was freed on bail in Florida.
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An Australian who became the first person convicted at an American war crimes trial since World War II was freed from prison after completing his U.S.-imposed sentence.
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A German tourist who was arrested with a Frenchman after their boat allegedly strayed into Iranian waters has been freed from prison in Iran's capital, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Monday.
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WASHINGTON - The Defense Department has determined for the first time that one of the nearly 600 prisoners at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was improperly held by the United States as an âenemy combatantâ and will be released to his home
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A US citizen held as an enemy combatant has been freed and returned to Saudi Arabia after the Supreme Court challenged his detention without charges for nearly three years, his lawyer said Monday.
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Authorities have approved a salvage plan   for the cargo ship "Clipper Lasco" that ran aground off Fort   Lauderdale, Florida, on Thursday and cargo will be unloaded to   help free the vessel, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Sunday.
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U.S. forces freed the police chief of  the rebel-held city of Falluja on Tuesday after warplanes  bombed what the military said were houses and arms dumps used  by America's top enemy in Iraq.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul reported Monday that kidnapped truck driver Mithat Civi, a Turkish national, was freed by his captors.
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Mark Thatcher, who was detained in South Africa last week on suspicion he aided a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea, today paid a 2 million-rand bond ($303,000), freeing him from house
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Former President Joseph Estrada is freed from detention, after receiving a pardon from his successor.
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General Vang Pao, accused of leading a plot to overthrow the Lao government, is freed on bail in the US.
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Yaser Esam Hamdi, the accused Taliban fighter whose legal battle was fought from Norfolk to the US Supreme Court, will be freed in a matter of days, according to an agreement signed by the US government on today.
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Yaser E. Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan, will be freed and allowed to return to Saudi Arabia in the next few days.