New looting reported, food aid arrives
The mayor of the Chilean city of Concepcion says some food aid is arriving for survivors of the powerful weekend quake.
The mayor of the Chilean city of Concepcion says some food aid is arriving for survivors of the powerful weekend quake.
Many of Haiti's schools are in ruins after the Jan. 12 earthquake, and what to do about is a matter of debate.
A Hamas leader has disowned his son after the younger man claimed he spied for Israel.
Rescuers in a heavily-damaged Chilean city are hearing signs of life from an apartment building that was toppled by Saturday's earthquake.
The governor of a region in Chile hard hit by Saturday's massive earthquake says security forces arrested 55 people overnight for violating curfew.
The Real IRA splinter group says it killed a Catholic civilian whose semi-naked body was found handcuffed and dumped near the Irish border.
South Africa sent a report to a U.N. committee saying it confiscated a shipment of North Korean tank parts hidden among sacks of rice being sent to the Republic of Congo in violation of U.N. sanctions.
Marjah residents say the Afghan Taliban is pulling back as NATO and Afghan troops advance. It appears insurgents are choosing not to fight, but rather trying to delay troops by planting bombs.
Mexican authorities say gunmen killed a deputy police chief outside an elementary school as his wife, son and other students and parents looked on.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is hoping to hold talks with his Colombian counterpart on easing tensions between the South American neighbors.
Intelligence officials now say suspected U.S. missiles killed four people today in northwest Pakistan.
Marines are starting a push to clear the last pockets of Taliban insurgents from Marjah.
Cuban President Raul Castro has issued a seemingly unprecedented statement expressing regret for the death of a jailed dissident after a lengthy hunger strike. But he says that neither the man nor anyone else on the island has been tortured.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet says a group of South American nations has committed to providing $100 million in aid for earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
A new book reveals that the son of a founder of Hamas was a top informant for Israel for years, passing on information that helped thwart dozens of attacks on Israelis.
Ivory Coast's Prime Minister Guillaume Soro has announced a new government, nearly two weeks after the president dissolved the last one.
A top Haitian official tells the Associated Press that the U.S. Embassy now has custody of six orphans who were seized by Haitian police as they were about to board a plane for the United States.
Darfur's most powerful rebel group and Sudan's government have signed a truce to open the way for political negotiations to end the 7-year-old struggle.
The office of France's President says a French hostage who was held captive in Mali for three months by Al-Qaida's North Africa offshoot has been freed.
Turkey's state-run news agency says 17 workers have been killed as a methane gas explosion caused the collapse of an underground chamber in a coal mine in northwestern Turkey.
The World Health Organization says the Swine Flu pandemic still has not peaked.
Ivory Coast's Prime Minister says he will announce within 24 hours the composition of the country's new government, which will include members of the opposition.
Iran's Transport Minister says any airlines that don't refer to the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula as the Persian Gulf will be banned from Iranian airspace.
France has started using a full-body security scanner for U.S.-bound passengers at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Automotive analysts are divided over the effects of another possible Toyota recall.