Posted: 12:26 PM The pope's title and what he would wear have been a major source of speculation ever since Benedict stunned the world and announced he would resign on Thursday, the first pontiff to do so in 600 years.
Posted: 12:24 PM At least 141 people, half of them children, were killed when the Syrian military fired at least four missiles into the northern province of Aleppo last week, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
Posted: 12:23 PM Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills and flamboyant style — tattoos, nose studs and all — on Tuesday to a country with possibly the world's strictest dress code: North Korea.
Updated: 12:02 PM The main opposition group, the liberal and secular National Salvation Front, declared Tuesday it would boycott the elections. The announcement is likely to add to Egypt's political instability.
Posted: 8:11 AM World powers began their fourth round of high-level talks with Iranian officials on Tuesday as negotiators from both sides pledged to offer new ways to break a years-long impasse over Tehran's nuclear program
Posted: 7:08 AM The government of the tiny North Atlantic nation is drafting plans to ban pornography, in print and online, in an attempt to protect children from a tide of violent sexual imagery.
Posted: 7:05 AM Czech authorities said Monday they have detected horse meat in meat balls labeled as beef and pork for Swedish furniture retailer giant Ikea
Posted: 7:04 AM Italians voted for a second day Monday in a national election that will determine whether they are prepared to stay the course of painful economic reform or send a message of discontinuity to the political class
Posted: 7:02 AM The venue for talks on Iran's nuclear program between world powers and Tehran carries a symbolism that Western negotiators will hope serves as a positive omen.
Posted: 7:01 AM The country with the developed world's biggest gender income gap now has its first female president, but Park Geun-hye already has South Koreans wondering whether she'll improve the status of women
Posted: 6:59 AM In accepting a new presidential term on Sunday, the 81-year-old Raul Castro announced that it would be his last. And for the first time, he tapped a rising young star.
Posted: 6:58 AM The man tapped as the likely heir-apparent to Raul Castro is largely unknown off the island, but his rise to the country's No. 2 job was anything but meteoric.
Posted: 6:56 AM The fliers began turning up at Sunni households in the Iraqi capital's Jihad neighborhood last week bearing a chilling message: Get out now or face "great agony" soon.
Posted: 6:53 AM Iran's state TV dismissed the Oscar-winning film "Argo" on Monday as an "advertisement for the CIA" and some Iranians called the award a political statement by America
Posted: 8:23 PM Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric says priests should be allowed to marry and have children.
Updated: 9:57 AM Double-amputee track star Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to go free as he awaits trial in the Valentine's Day shooting death of his girlfriend.
Posted: 8:10 AM There were no immediate reports of casualties from Friday's shelling, which targeted the towns of Beit Sahm and Shebaa near the main airport road south of the capital, activists said.
Posted: 8:09 AM The U.S. ambassador to Moscow on Friday called on Russian authorities and media to stop "sensational exploitations" of the death of an adopted boy in the United States.
Posted: 8:08 AM Most of Guam's native bird species are extinct because of the snake, which reached the island's thick jungles by hitching rides from the South Pacific on U.S. military ships shortly after World War II.
Posted: 8:07 AM Indian police are investigating whether a shadowy Islamic militant group was responsible for a dual bomb attack that killed 16 people outside a movie theater and a bus station in the southern city of Hyderabad
Posted: 8:06 AM Police were searching villages in western India on Friday for suspects in the rape and killing of three young sisters.
Posted: 8:03 AM The tiny northeast Indian state of Meghalaya has a special fascination for interesting and sometimes controversial names, and the ballot for state elections Saturday is proof.
Posted: 7:48 AM An Egyptian opposition leader is warning the president's call for parliamentary elections in April will only inflame the country's political tensions.
Posted: 7:46 AM When King Juan Carlos appeared at a basketball game in front of thousands of subjects, he was greeted by persistent heckling and whistling.
Posted: 7:45 AM Iraqi officials say gunmen wearing military uniforms have killed seven anti-al-Qaida militiamen in an attack in a town north of Baghdad.
