A group of Somali pirates who have hijacked a tanker loaded with military supplies say they will fight to the death before giving in to Russian and U.S. authorities.
A homicide bomber who hugged a former army general before detonating his explosive-laden vest killed 27 people gathered in a crowded opposition party office in northern Sri Lanka on Monday.
A professional British soccer player was sentenced to more than seven years in jail Monday for causing the deaths of two young brothers in a car crash this summer.
The lawyer for a man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow bus passenger said Monday an interim report that examines whether the accused is fit to stand trial has been completed.
At least 30 people are dead after a pair of earthquakes struck Tibet, including a 6.6 magnitude temblor that destroyed thousands of houses.
Asian and European stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that the global financial crisis would depress world economic growth.
Despite declining violence, lingering fear bred by rampant crime and a small but die-hard insurgency has left many Iraqi women afraid to run in the elections, to be held by Jan. 31.
A top Shiite lawmaker urged parliament Monday to restore quotas for Christians and other small religious communities on ruling provincial councils that voters will select in balloting by Jan. 31.
Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey on Monday in retaliation for the killing of 17 soldiers three days ago, the military said.
A homicide bomber attacked a lawmaker's house in eastern Pakistan Monday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 50, officials and a witness said.
President Hosni Mubarak has pardoned a newspaper editor sentenced last week to two months in prison over reports about the Egyptian leader's health, a statement from the president's office said Monday.
A top rabbi addressing a worldwide meeting of Roman Catholic bishops at the Vatican on Monday condemned the Iranian president's verbal attacks on Israel.
A Swedish court has convicted a truck driver of the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl and a 31-year-old woman.
Germany's Harald zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier have shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine.
A British flight crew wrestled an unruly German passenger after he assaulted two others and tried to open the plane's door mid-flight, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported Monday.
Officials from the Taliban met with the Afghan government last month in Saudi Arabia, but the Taliban is denying that the meeting was a peace talk.
Resuers found an infant miraculously alive after spending four days in a pool of mud following flash floods that killed dozens in Algeria.
Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday that modern culture is pushing God out of people's lives, causing nations once rich in religious faith to lose their identities.
A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 72 people, emergency officials said Monday.
Russia began the most ambitious test of its strategic bomber fleet in almost a quarter of a century Monday.
Pakistan insisted Monday it had no deal allowing the U.S. to fire missiles at militant hideouts after an American newspaper quoted the new president as suggesting otherwise.