Posted: 6:59 AM Guatemala's top court has thrown another curve into the genocide case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, overturning his conviction and ordering that the trial be taken back to the middle of the proceedings.
Updated: 7:00 AM Gunmen wearing North Korean military uniforms beat up the captain of a seized Chinese fishing boat and stole its fuel during two weeks of captivity.
Posted: 6:55 AM At least 44 people were killed and 12,000 displaced, most of them Muslim, in more than a week of conflicts with Buddhists that began March 20 in the central Myanmar city of Meikhtila.
Updated: 6:59 AM Syria said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military said gunfire from Syria had hit an Israeli patrol.
Posted: 6:46 AM Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich.
Posted: 10:38 AM Iran's election overseers say they will bar candidates who are physically weak from running in next month's presidential election.
Posted: 6:42 AM Thein Sein previously served in a repressive junta, and his meetings at the White House and Congress would have been all-but-impossible before he took the helm of a nominally civilian government in 2011.
Posted: 6:39 AM Syrian government forces pushed deeper into a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, battling rebels in fierce street fighting, Syrian state-media said Monday.
Posted: 6:37 AM A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 34 people on Monday, Iraqi officials said.
Posted: 6:31 AM The Russian government, however, has gotten state-controlled companies and tycoons to foot more than half of the bill, which now stands at $51 billion
Posted: 6:30 AM The cost of the 2014 Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi now stands at $51 billion, making it the most expensive Olympics in history.
Posted: 9:45 AM A French police official says jewelry worth about $1 million has been stolen from a safe in a Cannes hotel room, against the backdrop of the Riviera resort town's film festival.
Posted: 9:09 AM Authorities in Germany are investigating the death of a Japanese chef following a fight with two customers who had complained about his food.
Posted: 6:11 AM In Basra, mourners on Friday carried the coffin of Mohammed Aboud, who they say was killed by a sniper fire near the shrine of Sayida Zeinab outside the capital of Damascus five days before.
Posted: 6:10 AM A six-member U.N. team led by a former Syrian planning minister is drawing up a comprehensive postwar reconstruction plan even as the country's civil war rages on with no apparent end in sight.
Posted: 6:08 AM Rights activists have found torture devices and other evidence of abuse in government prisons in the first Syrian city to fall to the rebels, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday.
Posted: 6:07 AM While circuses in other countries struggle to compete with an ever-increasing array of entertainment options, India's have faced a cataclysm.
Posted: 9:31 PM Danish museum officials say that an archaeological dig last year has revealed 365 items from the Viking era.
Posted: 9:22 PM It probably wasn't the reception Barbie was hoping for at the start of her European tour.
Posted: 7:02 AM A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least six people in the explosion and wounding more than 30, officials said.
Posted: 6:59 AM First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities — toilet paper.
Posted: 6:57 AM Two car bombs exploded in sprawling Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital on Thursday morning, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 30, officials said.
Posted: 6:56 AM Two bodies were pulled from the wreckage and seven people were injured, he said. Rescuers combed through rubble for several hours and after clearing the site said that nobody else was trapped inside.
Updated: 9:21 PM Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children.
Updated: 6:40 AM Two weeks after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry persuaded Arab leaders to reissue their 2002 offer with new incentives, Israel is maintaining a striking silence
