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03/11/2010 09:05 AM
The activist jumped aboard the whaling vessel from a Jet Ski on Feb. 15 in the Antarctic, where Japan was conducting its annual whale hunt
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03/11/2010 01:32 AM
The former operations chief and second in command of the Afghan Taliban has been "singing like a male canary" since his arrest last month in Karachi, Pakistan, counterintelligence officials said Wednesday.
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03/11/2010 01:03 AM
Partial vote results in Iraq's historic election released Thursday showed a tight contest between the nation's prime minister and a secular challenger during a chaotic count that was marred by accusations of fraud.
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03/11/2010 10:56 AM
A jailed Jordanian cleric who is behind bars for promoting terrorist attacks appears to be the face of Al Qaedas newest recruitment campaign.
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03/11/2010 11:17 AM
Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the first person from a developing nation to top the list, according to Forbes magazine.
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03/11/2010 11:56 AM
The strongest aftershock since Chile's devastating earthquake rocked the South American country Thursday as President Sebastian Pinera was sworn into office.
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03/11/2010 08:46 AM
Pakistani officials say a botched suicide bombing aimed at a security convoy on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar has wounded three children playing nearby.
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03/11/2010 09:48 AM
A cardinal seen as a future candidate for the papacy has broken a Vatican taboo by raising the possibility that priestly celibacy is among the causes of the sex abuse scandal sweeping the Roman Catholic Church.
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03/11/2010 08:06 AM
The Year of the Tiger has got off to a tragic start for the endangered big cat in China.
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03/11/2010 11:19 AM
Kidnappers have freed two Swiss women snatched off the streets of Haiti's capital and held for five days, officials said Thursday.
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03/11/2010 02:19 AM
Morgue officials confirmed the deaths and said the bodies of Aseel al-Obeidi and her husband were riddled with bullets in Wednesday's shooting in the Tobchi neighborhood.
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03/11/2010 07:05 AM
At 35, Leila Ghanem is the first woman to become a Palestinian governor, the latest in a group of trailblazing women leaders who are slowly winning acceptance in this traditional society.
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03/11/2010 09:27 AM
A Swedish court ruled Thursday that a former neo-Nazi leader arrested in Sweden can be extradited to Poland, where he is suspected of being involved in the theft of the infamous Auschwitz sign.
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03/11/2010 12:40 AM
A top Austrian newspaper cites two former members of the famed Vienna Boys Choir as saying they were sexually abused by their supervisors.
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03/11/2010 10:06 AM
Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures.
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03/11/2010 09:13 AM
A U.K. man says he plans to make the first round-the-world trip in a customized rotorcraft known as an autogyro.
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03/10/2010 06:29 AM
Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief exorcist.
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03/10/2010 03:08 AM
The Arab League has recommended withdrawing support for indirect talks between Palestinians and Israelis due to recent announcements of new settlement building.
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03/10/2010 01:53 AM
Nelson Mandela's ex-wife has bitterly criticized the 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon as having 'let us down,' prompting outrage in South Africa.
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03/10/2010 06:29 AM
A British father who repeatedly raped his two daughters and fathered nine babies with them during a 35-year orgy of physical and sexual abuse was never detected due to a litany of failures by health care professionals, a report reveals.
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