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As devastating floods appear to widen divisions, Pakistani officials, some accused of ineptitude and favoritism, are trying to repair the political damage.
A German court for juveniles has convicted a 19-year-old for a brutal killing of a man who had intervened to protect a group of children being harassed on a train.
A Dutchman suspected in the disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway has reportedly confessed to a newspaper in his home country that he extorted money from the girl's parents.
AP - The Philippine government has asked a court to outlaw the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist group and blacklist more than 200 of its Islamic fighters blamed for two decades of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings, officials said Monday.
AP - New Zealand's prime minister warned Monday that the country's economic recovery will be hurt by the weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings and wrecked roads and rail lines in the city of Christchurch.
AP - The Spanish government on Monday rejected a new ceasefire announcement by the separatist group ETA and ruled out negotiations on an independent Basque homeland, saying the militants have been decimated by arrests and are desperate to regroup and rearm.
AP - Lebanon's prime minister says it was a mistake to accuse Syria of being behind the 2005 assassination of his father.
AP - World stock markets advanced modestly Monday as investors rode momentum from Friday, when an upbeat U.S. jobs report eased fears that the global economy could slip back into recession.
A suicide bomber struck a school van, then rammed his car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday killing at least 17 people, including children, police said.
The famadihana, a ritual in which relatives remove the dead from their tombs in an atmosphere of celebration, continues among various faiths in the island nation.
A bomber rammed a vehicle into a police station on Monday, killing 17 people and injuring at least 46, according to officials.
A Japanese freelance journalist who was kidnapped for five months in Afghanistan and released Saturday says his kidnappers weren't members of the Taliban, but corrupt Afghan soldiers.
Heavy rain and flooding have prompted the evacuation of hundreds of households in Australia's second-most-populated state, emergency officials said Monday.
A court in northern Japan found two Greenpeace activists guilty Monday for stealing whale meat, but suspended their sentences, Greenpeace Japan said.
Only one of Nidal Haidar's six sisters is married. She has given up on ever getting hitched.
An Iranian widow sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery has reportedly been lashed 99 times after what was said to be a picture of her without a headscarf appeared in a newspaper.
North Korea has decided to return a South Korean fishing boat and its crew, after the North's navy intercepted them in its waters in August, state-run media said Monday.
A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at ...
The most influential of Egypt's dissident groups is caught between fighting and placating the government.
A mix-up over a photograph led to a sentence of 99 lashes for the Iranian woman whose earlier death sentence by stoning caused an international outcry, a lawyer said.
Alarmed that its children are falling behind those in rivals such as South Korea and Hong Kong, Japan is adding about 1,200 pages to elementary ...
The floodwaters that already devastated one crop in the fields are threatening the next season's crop as well, an aftershock aid workers fear ...
The death toll in a mudslide that buried a bus and five cars on a Guatemalan highway rose to 37 today but could reach 100, the nation's emergency services agency said.
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Struggling to contain an escalating crisis at Kabul Bank, Afghan authorities have barred the sale of Kabul properties held by the bank's principal owners. Hamid Karzai - Afghanistan - Warfare and Conflict - Afghanistan Civil War - Peace Process
Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala some of them rescuers trying ...
Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo's vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both ...
BAGHDAD - Just five days after the United States declared the end of its combat mission in Iraq, U.S. soldiers opened fire Sunday morning on suicide bombers who snuck into an Iraqi army base in Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said. Iraq - Baghdad - Middle East - Warfare and Conflict - Suicide attack
IN SUKKUR, PAKISTAN As ruined lives and landscapes threaten Pakistan's fragile government, another dismal reality might help save it: The refugees from this summer's catastrophic floods have profoundly low expectations of their leaders. Pakistan - Asia - Refugee - Arts and Entertainment - Music
SAN MARTIN DE SAMIRIA, PERU - To the untrained eye, all evidence here in the heart of the Amazon signals virgin forest, untouched by man for time immemorial - from the ubiquitous fruit palms to the cry of howler monkeys, from the air thick with mosquitoes to the unruly tangle of jungle vines. Physics - Business - People - Alternative - Unified Theories
NAHUALA, Guatemala -- Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala - some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud. Guatemala - Mudslide - Central America - State of emergency - Mexico
If they were looking for a mea culpa, the protestors and egg- and shoe-throwers who, on Saturday, greeted former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at his first public book signing will be sorely disappointed. In an exclusive interview on This Week with anchor Christiane Amanpour, an unrepentant Blair danced around questions of whether he had any regrets about Iraq.
Tony Blair - Iraq - Christiane Amanpour - Prime minister - History
Buildings collapse, 2 seriously injured as powerful quake rocks New ZealandNew Zealand - South Island - Earthquake - Oceania - Tsunami
The gridlock began in mid-August 2010 when various sections along the expressway, heavily used by coal trucks from Inner Mongolia, began repeatedly jamming.Inner Mongolia - Asia - China - Mongolia - Chinese language
Gates tours Afghan war zone, sees signs of progress in US counterinsurgency strategyAfghanistan - War in Afghanistan - Asia - Hamid Karzai - United States
As President Obama pushes a new round of Mideast peac talks, opinions are split on whether Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has skills to necessary for negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis.Middle East - Hillary Rodham Clinton - President - President of the United States - Palestinian people
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