Posted: 6:57 PM The resolution urges Syrian authorities to immediately release all detainees and calls for a prompt independent international investigation into abuses and violations of international law.
Posted: 7:02 PM Scores had to be rescued from the building as it quickly filled with smoke.
Posted: 7:01 PM Officials say a 20-year-old state beauty queen has been killed in northern Mexico during a running gun battle between soldiers and the gang of drug traffickers she was traveling with.
Posted: 6:59 PM A spokesman of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood says it has canceled a planned mass rally in support of President Mohammed Morsi's assumption of sweeping powers.
Posted: 6:58 PM The Palestinians say the U.N. General Assembly will vote Thursday afternoon on a resolution raising their status at the United Nations from an observer to a nonmember observer state.
Posted: 7:58 AM Moroccan security forces dismantled a cell recruiting young men to fight with al-Qaida-linked groups in northern Mali, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.
Posted: 7:48 AM At least 112 people were killed in a fire that raced through a multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh's capital, an official said Sunday.
Posted: 7:45 AM Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency says a Palestinian man has been charged with relaying information to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon about sensitive government sites, including parliament.
Posted: 8:37 AM Police say a Toronto teen is the latest person to be charged in connection with one of the worst mass shootings in the city's history.
Posted: 8:34 AM The U.N. Committee Against Torture is strongly criticizing Russia for failing to investigate widespread allegations of torture and increasing intimidation and reprisals against human rights advocates and journalists.
Posted: 8:32 AM Tens of thousands of children are returning to school in the Gaza Strip after eight days of cross-border fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules the coastal enclave.
Posted: 8:29 AM Egypt's official news agency says that the country's highest body of judges has called the president's recent decrees an "unprecedented assault on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings."
Posted: 9:31 AM Opponents of President Mohammed Morsi have set fire to offices of his Muslim Brotherhood in several Egyptian cities, clashing with his supporters after the Islamist leader assumed sweeping new powers.
Posted: 9:30 AM A former senior Russian defense ministry official has been charged with fraud related to a sell-off of military assets worth about $11 million.
Posted: 9:28 AM A South African gold mining company says two of its workers have been killed and another injured in violence at one of its mines as unrest continues in the industry.
Posted: 9:20 AM Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded 19 people as crowds surged toward Gaza's border fence with Israel today.
Posted: 8:03 PM Khaled Mashaal spoke to reporters after Wednesday's truce deal was announced with both sides promising to halt attacks on each other and ease an Israeli blockade after eight days of fierce fighting.
Posted: 8:01 PM The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake's epicenter was 34 miles (54 kilometers) south-west of San Antonio.
Posted: 8:00 PM Under the terms of the deal, Israel promised to stop its airstrikes, and Hamas said there would be a halt to the rocket attacks.
Posted: 1:19 PM Agreement should end a week-long battle that has killed more than 145 people.
Posted: 6:54 PM British Foreign Secretary William Hague made the announcement Tuesday.
Posted: 6:53 PM U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States is pushing for a `'durable outcome" promoting stability following Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Posted: 6:52 PM Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad says an Israeli strike on a Gaza media center has killed one of its top militant leaders.
Posted: 6:51 PM The endorsement of the coalition as a legitimate voice for Syria's people represents a major step forward in the West's acceptance of the group.
Posted: 10:43 PM President Barack Obama is opening his historic trip to Myanmar, becoming the first U.S. leader to visit the once-pariah nation.
