Posted: 9:04 AM Israel's military says soldiers have dispersed settlers and Palestinians who were throwing rocks at each other in the West Bank following the killing of a settler there.

Posted: 9:02 AM Iraqi officials say a car bomb in a Shiite suburb of Baghdad has killed four people and wounded 12 others.

Posted: 7:08 AM A woman desperate to have a fourth child forced her adopted teenage daughter to artificially inseminate herself with semen purchased over the Internet so she could have the baby.

Updated: 6:32 AM King Willem-Alexander became the first Dutch male monarch in more than a century Tuesday as his mother Beatrix abdicated to end a 33-year reign.

Posted: 6:30 AM The nature of Tuesday's explosion in the heart of Damascus was not immediately clear. Resident say they heard a powerful blast and saw thick, black smoke billowing from behind a group of buildings.

Posted: 6:27 AM Afghans still can't debate religion or question prevailing Islamic orthodoxies without fear of being punished, a U.S. commission said in a new report on Tuesday.

Posted: 6:25 AM There is no official data on the numbers leaving because of pollution, but executive recruitment consultants say they are noticing that it is becoming harder to attract top talent to China.

Posted: 6:24 AM The Israeli military said the airstrike killed Haitham Mishal, whom it identified as a jihadi militant involved in the April 17 rocket attack on the southern Israeli resort town of Eilat.

Posted: 1:45 PM A hospital says a Turkish woman who became the first person to successfully receive a donor womb is six weeks into a "healthy" pregnancy.

Posted: 1:42 PM The announcement Monday was cheered by environmentalists, disappointed chemical companies and came after the bloc's 27 nations failed to agree on a common stand.

Posted: 7:06 AM Syria's prime minister escaped an assassination attempt Monday when a bomb went off near his convoy in Damascus, state media reported.

Posted: 7:00 AM The instances in which chemical weapons are alleged to have been used in Syria were purportedly small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam Hussein's 1988 attack in Kurdish Iraq that killed thousands.

Posted: 6:58 AM A powerful explosion has damaged a building in the center of the Czech capital, Prague, injuring up to 40 people. Authorities say they believe some people are buried in the rubble.

Posted: 6:57 AM Rescue workers in Bangladesh gave up hopes of finding any more survivors in the remains of a building that collapsed five days ago, and began using heavy machinery on Monday

Posted: 6:55 AM Italy's new cross-party government faces its first crucial test with a vote of confidence in the lower house a day after a lone gunman shot two police officers outside the prime minister's office.

Posted: 7:17 AM A fire swept quickly through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, most of them in their beds, officials said.

Updated: 7:34 AM Rescue workers had to cut off Mussamat Anna's mangled right hand to pull the 18-year-old garment worker free from the debris Thursday night.

Posted: 7:13 AM A Russian court is to consider whether one of the jailed Pussy Riot band members is eligible for early release as she has served a half of her two-year sentence.

Posted: 7:09 AM A most-wanted American jihadi in Somalia says a known assassin from the militant group al-Shabab has shot him in the neck.

Updated: 12:00 PM According to a letter sent to Sen. John McCain obtained by CBS News, the assessment of chemical weapons use in Syria was "based in part on physiological samples."

Posted: 6:59 AM You don't see this very often: a majority of Senate Republicans voting to make people who buy stuff on the Internet pay state and local sales taxes.

Posted: 6:50 AM After five weeks of battle, Syrian government troops captured a strategic town near Damascus, cutting an arms route for rebels trying to topple President Bashar Assad's regime, state media and activists said Thursday.

Posted: 6:48 AM The disaster in the Dhaka suburb of Savar came less than five months after a blaze killed 112 people in a garment factory and underscored the unsafe conditions faced by Bangladesh's garment workers.

Posted: 6:46 AM After weeks of threatening rhetoric from the North, South Korea on Thursday promised its own unspecified "grave measures" if Pyongyang rejects talks on a jointly run factory park shuttered for nearly a month.

Posted: 6:38 AM The powder is a synthetic drug known as "spice" that is Russia's latest scourge. The pair on the ground are pushers. And the hammer-wielding men? Vigilantes fighting the drug's spread with widespread public approval