Posted: 12:16 PM Annan, the architect of the primary international plan to end Syria's 16-month-old crisis, arrived in Iran late Monday for talks with leaders there.

Posted: 12:14 PM A mysterious young woman appearing at the side of North Korea's new leader is the subject of speculation she could be Kim Jong Un's younger sister or even wife, but Pyongyang has released no details.

Posted: 12:11 PM Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has given his permission to exhume the remains of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, a top aide said Monday.

Posted: 12:09 PM An Israeli court will deliver a verdict Tuesday in the corruption trial of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, capping a five-year saga that has plunged the country into uncharted legal waters.

Posted: 12:06 PM A regional court in Cologne recently ruled that circumcising young boys for religious reasons amounts to bodily harm, even if parents agree to it.

Posted: 4:57 AM A deadly form of a common childhood illness has been linked to many of the mysterious child deaths in Cambodia that caused alarm, health officials said Monday.

Posted: 1:06 PM The United States and its international allies called Friday for new, global sanctions against President Bashar Assad's regime.

Posted: 1:04 PM It was not possible to immediately evaluate the claim Thursday by Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz and Adriana Conconi Fedrigolli on the eve of the publication of two ebooks laying out their case.

Posted: 1:01 PM Hong Kong customs officers announced Friday that they have made the city's biggest ever cocaine bust, seizing 649 kilograms (1,430 pounds) of the drug worth 76 million Hong Kong dollars ($98 million).

Posted: 12:56 PM The U.S. Defense Department confirmed that Syrian Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass had defected and was heading to Turkey, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

Posted: 6:37 AM The United States and its international partners called Friday for global sanctions against Bashar Assad's regime, seeking to step up the pressure to the Syrian leader.

Posted: 7:00 PM The baby thefts set Argentina's 1976-1983 military junta apart from all the others that ruled in Latin America at the time.

Posted: 1:09 PM As North Koreans cheered and waved white "unified Korea" flags, a South Korean activist was arrested as soon as he set foot on home soil Thursday

Posted: 1:07 PM A lawyer says a jailed American businessman has ended his 7-week hunger strike after authorities agreed to set bail for his release.

Posted: 11:26 AM Iraq's top diplomat on Thursday said he had "solid information" that al-Qaida militants were crossing from Iraq to Syria to carry out attacks, warning of a violent spillover that could shake the Middle East.

Posted: 11:24 AM The first truck carrying supplies to American and NATO troops in Afghanistan has crossed the Pakistani border after a seven-month closure of the supply routes by Pakistan ended earlier this week.

Posted: 11:23 AM The BEA air accident investigation agency is recommending better training for pilots and stricter plane certification rules as a result of its three-year probe into the crash of Flight 447.

Posted: 11:21 AM Greece is falling short of some of the commitments it has made in return for billions of euros of rescue money, the country's new finance minister admitted

Posted: 11:18 AM The violence in Syria has reached unprecedented levels, the head of the country's U.N. observer mission said Thursday, insisting there must be a cease-fire in order for his teams to resume their work.

Posted: 11:16 AM Though the report echoes other investigations into last year's disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, it could fuel complaints that Japan is trying to restart nuclear reactors without doing enough to avoid a repeat.

Posted: 11:14 AM An aide says the Palestinian leader wants more information from a Swiss lab before deciding whether to dig up the remains of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat.

Posted: 11:12 AM Kuwait's ruler reappointed the nation's former prime minister Thursday just days after his resignation, a step toward formation of a new government that could at least temporary sideline opposition Islamists.

Posted: 11:11 AM A Bahraini court ruled Thursday that an 11-year-old boy accused of taking part in anti-government protests may remain at home but must be monitored by authorities.

Posted: 11:08 AM Armed British police carried out an early-morning raid on a residential address near London's Olympic Park on Thursday, using smoke grenades and a stun gun in what they called a pre-planned anti-terror operation.

Updated: 1:40 PM An East Memphis man has been charged with reckless homicide after his son was fatally shot in the head.