The United States' top military officer says Washington does not plan to withdraw its weapons from Iraq through Turkey.

Environmentalists on Saturday praised Burger King's decision to stop buying palm oil from an Indonesian company accused of destroying rainforests.

Pakistani police say the death toll from a suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose from 43 to 65 overnight as critically wounded people died in hospital.

An 11-year-old boy was recovering Saturday after a sea lion mauled him at a popular Sydney zoo's aquarium show as horrified visitors looked on.

Mexican police have arrested six suspects in a bar fire that killed eight in the resort city of Cancun.

A light aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in flames Saturday near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, killing nine people including four foreign tourists, police said. ...

South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan has offered to resign amid accusations of nepotism, an official said Saturday.

A plane crash in southern Mexico killed all six people on board Friday, including two federal legislators and two mayors-elect.

A Honduran who survived the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico helped untie the only other survivor — a wounded Ecuadorean — and the two fled together, an official said Friday. ...

A U.S. human rights group urged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to secure the release of a prominent Iranian journalist and activist who goes on trial Saturday on charges that carry the death...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes relief may be in sight for the beleaguered news media industry.

A strong magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck close to New Zealand's second-largest city, wreaking havoc on older buildings and roads, damaging water pipes and power lines, and leading to an airport shutdown.

A team of NASA doctors and engineers recommended Friday that Chilean authorities regulate the day-and-night sleep patterns of 33 trapped miners, boost their Vitamin D intake and phase in an exer...

Posters supporting Egypt's intelligence chief as a candidate in next year's presidential election were removed from Cairo's streets hours after they appeared, while an independent newspaper was ...

A popular opposition website in authoritarian Belarus says its editor was found dead amid an ongoing crackdown on government critics and independent media.