Posted: 10:37 AM The United Nations says about 20 peacekeepers in the force charged with monitoring the cease-fire between Israel and Syrian troops on the Golan Heights have been detained by approximately 30 armed fighters.
Posted: 7:46 AM The American cardinals in Rome for the conclave to elect the next pope have canceled their popular daily press briefings.
Updated: 3:33 PM Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro says President Hugo Chavez has died.
Updated: 9:52 AM The helicopter taking Pope Benedict XVI to Castel Gandolfo is waiting on the pad at the Vatican.
Updated: 8:31 AM He will be freed from custody pending his trial in the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Posted: 7:31 AM June Steenkamp was quoted by the Times newspaper in South Africa in a front page interview Monday asking: "Why my little girl? ... Why did he do this?"
Updated: 2:00 PM The fall caused explosions that broke glass over a wide area.
Updated: 7:52 AM A statement from the family of Oscar Pistorius and his management says they dispute the claim that he murdered his girlfriend "in the strongest terms."
Posted: 1:10 PM The man known as the Blade Runner for his high-tech artificial legs is being charged with the murder of his girlfriend, who was shot inside his home in South Africa early today.
Posted: 7:29 AM Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said Benedict had the pacemaker installed "a long time" before he became pope in 2005.
Updated: 3:45 PM The 85-year-old pope announced the bombshell in Latin during a meeting of Vatican cardinals, surprising even his closest collaborators, even though Benedict had made clear in the past he would step down if he became too old or infirm to do the job.
Updated: 8:15 AM The State Department is confirming that a terror attack occurred just outside the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey.
Updated: 10:04 AM Investigators believe the fast-moving blaze that killed more than 230 people early Sunday was started by a band's pyrotechnics.
Updated: 3:10 PM The Central American nations worry about what the effect that legalization in some U.S. states will have on the battle against international drug cartels.
Updated: 3:11 PM Hillary Clinton vowed that those responsible for the attack would be brought to justice even if it takes some time.
Updated: 8:33 AM Abdelmalek Sellal said Monday kidnappers came from Egypt, Canada, Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Tunisia.
Updated: 2:22 PM Algeria's state news service reported that nearly 100 of the 132 foreign workers kidnapped by Islamic militants had been freed.
Updated: 12:39 PM Obama says the path of the U.S. military remains clear and the war is moving toward a "responsible end" in 2014.
Updated: 9:04 AM The toll is far higher than the figure of 45,000 given by activists opposed to the regime of President Bashar Assad.
Posted: 1:37 PM The director of national intelligence has been stonewalling the panel after promising a timeline to explain the changes.
Updated: 9:55 AM The adoption ban has been criticized, even in Russia.
Posted: 7:49 AM Panetta said the international military coalition has managed to reverse a five-year trend of growing violence.
Updated: 9:04 AM NBC said Tuesday that Engel and his production crew have been freed unharmed following a firefight at a checkpoint in Syria on Monday.
Posted: 8:16 AM Since 2005, gay couples in Britain have been able to form civil partnerships, which carry the same legal status as marriage.
Posted: 3:35 PM The plane appeared to have disintegrated on impact.
