Montreal's annual anti-police brutality march ended with violence and vandalism, with some protesters attacking retail stores and vehicles.

Syrian prisons are among the most fearsome in the world and the stories of torture are almost routine. That history of brutality gives some sense of the courage it took for Syrians to openly defy the Assad regime this past year, Nahlah Ayed writes.

Police found the bodies of 23 people, some hanging from a bridge and others decapitated, in an explosion of violence Friday in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, site of a brutal drug cartel turf war.