Afghan police say Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a parliamentarian and powerful former warlord, has narrowly escaped an assassination attempt near Kabul.

A Vatican researcher claims she has found a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin and says the discovery proves the authenticity of the artifact...

A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police...

A gunman went on a rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan Friday, killing four people and wounding six others before fatally shooting himself,...

A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least eight militants Friday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area...

A gunman killed a Russian Orthodox priest in his Moscow church and seriously wounded the reverend’s assistant, officials said Friday.

A Russian cruise ship that has been struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days has finally reached clear water off Antarctica.

Britain’s air force and emergency workers using inflatable boats rescued about 200 people Friday as rising floodwaters caused widespread havoc in...

Six world powers are meeting in Brussels to discuss possible measures against Tehran for its refusal to halt nuclear enrichment activities.

A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman, and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square...

Italian prosecutors began their closing arguments Friday in the trial of an American student accused of killing her British roommate more than two years...

The artist Jeanne-Claude has died. She created the 2005 art installation in Central Park called “The Gates” with her husband, Christo.

Hundreds of thousands of people joined a somber funeral procession Thursday for Patriarch Pavle, who led the Serbian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist...

NATO says two U.S. service members have been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is opposing the Obama administration’s decision to try alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in...

The European Union’s 27 leaders were facing an all-nighter Thursday as a bruising battle loomed over who to name as the bloc’s first full-time...

A suicide bomber killed 19 people Thursday outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting...

Afghanistan will prosecute corrupt officials and control its own security within five years, President Hamid Karzai pledged Thursday in an inauguration...

Japanese police identified an American soldier Thursday as the prime suspect in a fatal-hit-and-run accident on the southern island of Okinawa and asked...

Showing impatience with Iranian foot-dragging, President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and its allies are discussing possible new penalties...

A soldier from Richmond has been missing since a resupply mission in Afghanistan Nov. 4 that claimed the life of another unit member from Massachusetts,...

Swedish museum officials returned the remains of five indigenous Maori people to New Zealand on Wednesday as part of a broader move in Europe to repatriate...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in Afghanistan to attend Thursday’s inauguration of President Hamid Karzai and meet with...

A man appealing his conviction for murdering a British student in Italy testified Wednesday that he heard the victim arguing with an American defendant...

Russian news reports say a cruise ship carrying over 100 tourists and scientists to see emperor penguins in Antarctica has begun moving through packed...

EELBOON, Somalia—A Somali woman was stoned to death after being found guilty of adultery in breach of Islamic law. Halima Ibrahim Abdirahman, a 29-year-old...

NAIROBI, Kenya—Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months today, but guards on board the U.S.-flagged cargo ship...

TEHRAN, Iran—Iranian state television reports five people have been sentenced to death over the unrest that followed the country’s disputed...

MADRID—Spain’s prime minister says Somali pirates have freed a Spanish trawler with a crew of 36 after holding them hostage for more than six...

NAIROBI, Kenya—Pirates off the coast of Somalia have attacked two vessels, and at least one of those has been captured. The European Union’s...