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Officials: Attacks across Afghanistan kill 24 people
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Iran condemns Boston bombing but criticizes US 'double standard' in backing violence elsewhere
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Rights group urges Libyan authorities to give a former spy chief access to a lawyer
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LONDON (AP) -- Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest Wednesday with prayers and ceremony, plus cheers and occasional jeers, as Britain paused to remember a leader who transformed the country - for the better according to many, but in some eyes for the worse....
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated at New Zealand's Parliament on Wednesday as the country became the 13th in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage....
WALAWEYN, Somalia (AP) -- Outside a dilapidated two-story building, Abdi Ali says goodbye to his veiled girlfriend Anisa and they take two separate streets to avoid attention. Soon they're aboard a minibus heading outside Mogadishu, pretending they don't know each other....
The rockets caused no damage or injuries, the Israeli military said. A shadowy Islamic extremist group took responsibility for the strike.
BEIJING (AP) -- She was a food fan, eager for culinary discoveries. In her last microblog update the morning before the Boston Marathon blasts, the Chinese graduate student identified as the attack's third victim posted a photo of ciabatta-like bread chunks and fruit....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Asked if there might be war, the 40ish woman with the spangly purple shirt laughed out loud. She waved her hands back and forth, as if whisking away a pesky insect....
Israeli college launches journalism center named for slain reporter Daniel Pearl
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Evidence of nerve gas attack in the death of a man's wife and two toddlers in Aleppo.
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MARSEILLE, France -- Five French executives faced jeers from victims Wednesday as they went on trial accused of  supplying women with hundreds of thousands of substandard breast implants and triggering a global health scare.More than 300,000 women around the world were fitted over a decade with implants from the French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), and the trial includes 5,000 civil plainti...
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CAIRO (Reuters) - The retrial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on charges of complicity in the killing of demonstrators in the uprising that ousted him will start on May 11, a Cairo appeals court said on Wednesday. The former president was also ordered to be transferred back to prison from a military hospital on Wednesday on the recommendation of a medical team after he appeared fitter at his aborted retrial on Saturday. A first attempt to hold the retrial collapsed on Saturday when the presiding judge withdrew from the case and referred it to another court. ...
By Stephanie Nebehay and Sui-Lee Wee GENEVA/BEIJING (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a number of people who have tested positive for a new strain of bird flu in China have had no history of contact with poultry, adding to the mystery about a virus that has killed 16 people to date. Chinese authorities have slaughtered thousands of birds and closed some live poultry markets to try and stem the rate of human infection, but many questions remain unsolved, including whether the H7N9 strain is being transmitted between people. ...
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TEL AVIV - Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat was hit by two rockets fired from Egypt's Sinai peninsula Wednesday, but there were was no sign of damage or injury.Hardline Islamic militant group Magles Shoura al-Mujahddin claimed responsibility in a statement on its website, Reuters reported.The statement said the attack was in retaliation for what it described as the Israeli army's attack on protest...
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The Arab Spring may not have brought revolution or protest to the Palestinian people but a small group of young men and women in the Israeli-occupied West Bank may find greater democracy in the form of a new reality TV show called "The President."
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two rockets fired from Egypt's Sinai peninsula struck Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat on Wednesday, causing no casualties or damage, the Israeli military said, in an attack claimed by Islamist militants. The incident was likely to fuel Israeli concerns about lawlessness in neighboring Sinai, where militant groups have stepped up their activities since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's downfall in 2011. An Israeli military spokeswoman said two rockets were launched from Sinai and both hit open areas. ...
KIROV, Russia â€" Just 45 minutes after it began Wednesday, the trial of Russia's most popular opposition leader was delayed for a week at the defendant's request.
Alexei Navalny, a 36-year-old anti-corruption blogger and protest leader, has been charged with stealing more than $500,000 from a state-owned timber company in this provincial city 900 miles to the northeast of Moscow. He served as an adviser to the governor here in 2009, when authorities say the crime occurred.
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LONDON â€" The bells of Big Ben fell silent Wednesday as Britain bid a final farewell to Margaret Thatcher, a towering leader who in death, as in life, continued to deeply divide this nation.
Although not a state funeral â€" a status reserved largely for monarchs â€" the military honors and pomp unfurled for the event marked the most elaborate goodbye for any elected leader here since Winston Churchill. As the Union Jack flew at half-staff over Downing Street, the hearse carrying the flag-covered casket of the Iron Lady wound along a historic two-mile route. For the final leg of the procession, the casket was transferred to a gun carriage drawn by six horses.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand's parliament voted in favor of allowing same-sex marriage on Wednesday, prompting cheers, applause and the singing of a traditional Maori celebratory song from the public gallery.It becomes the 13th country to legalize same-sex marriages, after Uruguay passed its own law last week. Australia last year rejected a similar proposal.Countries where such marriages...
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By Sarah Young and Shadia Nasralla LONDON (Reuters) - Royalty, dignitaries and admirers from all walks of life paid their final respects to Margaret Thatcher on Wednesday in the grandest funeral for a British leader in half a century - although a few boos from the London crowd were a reminder of her divisive rule. The right-wing former prime minister whom the Soviet Union christened the "Iron Lady" was bid farewell with military honors, patriotic hymns, cheers and tears. Her coffin was borne on a horse-drawn gun carriage then soldiers and sailors carried her casket into St. ...
The ceremonial funeral with military honors for Margaret Thatcher has divided British opinion, much as the former prime minister stirred passions in her lifetime.
WELLINGTON - New Zealand's parliament voted in favor of allowing same-sex marriage on Wednesday, prompting cheers, applause and the singing of a traditional Maori celebratory song from the public gallery.It becomes the 13th country to legalize same-sex marriages, after Uruguay passed its own law last week. Australia last year rejected a similar proposal.Countries where such marriages are legal inc...
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JERUSALEM â€" Two rockets fired from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula landed on the outskirts of the Red Sea resort city of Eilat in southern Israel on Wednesday, causing no casualties or damage, Israeli police said.
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The Supreme Court ruled that foreign human rights cases don't belong in U.S. courts
MUROM, Russia â€" Until prosecutors all over Russia set to work unmasking "foreign agents," 80-year-old Raisa's biggest worry was whether her tiny pension would ever allow her to get the false teeth she covets.
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By Ju-min Park PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) - An electricity cable running from South Korea over the border into North Korea is one of last lifelines for more than 200 South Korean workers at a joint industrial park that North Korea has shut down amid fears of war. About 53,000 North Koreans worked at the Kaesong complex, just inside North Korea, where 123 South Korean companies have set up factories. ...
The funeral of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was held in London.
Wednesday's funeral rites for Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, have become a matter of dispute in Whitwell, where many lost their jobs during the 1980s coal battles.
President Obama said he did not believe that North Korea had the ability to miniaturize a nuclear weapon, and he added he would not "reward" the North for provocative acts.
Ten years ago this week, President George W. Bush announced the United States and coalition forces had begun military action against Iraq. Here's a look back at some of the people who made headlines during the war.
A defense paper released Tuesday said Washington's effort to strengthen its military presence in Asia and cement ties with allies was a threat to China.
Analysts says there appears little reason to hope negotiations will end the crisis over the North's nuclear weapons program.
Security plans for this weekend's London Marathon are being reviewed.
Expert says similar tactics could be used in the U.S.
Working as a guidance counselor five years ago in Palm Beach County, Estella Pyfrom noticed that fewer students had access to a computer after school.
Camden, New Jersey, is not an easy place for a kid to grow up in.
It was the war everyone just wanted to forget. But from a tiny red shoe in the rubble to a resident who rebelled against al Qaeda, CNN's Arwa Damon remembers the many freeze-frame moments caused by war.
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