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More than 100 are injured in the assault on a Shiite procession in Quetta, which comes two days after similar attacks on Shiites in Lahore. A suicide bombing Friday targeting a Shiite procession in the southern city of Quetta killed 58 people and injured more than 100 others, police said. The explosion came two days [...]

Palestinian security forces, reformed and retrained, have made a strong show of force, arresting hundreds of suspects. But human rights groups accuse them of detaining people without proper cause. Recent Palestinian attacks on West Bank settlers, which are likely to increase in response to relaunched peace talks, pose one of the biggest challenges yet to [...]

The decision was based on concerns that the country was not doing enough to protect its people from abuses by the police and the military.

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.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake damaged buildings, cut power and knocked fleeing residents off their feet on New Zealand’s South Island early Saturday, but there were so far no deaths and only two injuries reported.

Inspectors say no pollution has leaked from a Gulf of Mexico oil platform that exploded in flames and sent 13 workers escaping into the sea.

A weakening but still dangerous Hurricane Earl steamed toward the gray-shingled cottages and fishing villages of Cape Cod on Friday as North Carolina beckoned tourists to return. Cape Cod – Marthas Vineyard – United States – Massachusetts – Nantucket Massachusetts

The recent killing of 72 people, from El Salvador, Honduras and other nations, as they tried to cross through Mexico into the U.S., has sent shockwaves across the continent. But many may still attempt the perilous trek. Cayetano Flores wishes he had just said no.

Documents reveal a battle between the West and developing countries over whether to place Israel’s nuclear program under controls, as demanded by an Arab-sponsored resolution adopted by the IAEA. Arab countries are stepping up efforts to pry open Israel’s nuclear program, according to letters by diplomats accompanying a new report by the International Atomic Energy [...]

Presented by President Hugo Chávez as an instrument to make shopping for groceries easier, the “Good Life Card'' is making various segments of the population wary because they see it as a furtive attempt to introduce a rationing card similar to the one in Cuba.

Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas underwent emergency surgery Friday to remove his gall bladder, inflamed as a result of his 135-day hunger strike earlier this year to demand the release of political prisoners.

Cuba's Fidel Castro, reprising symbols of his former power, wore a full military uniform and spoke to a mass audience outdoors Friday for the first time since he nearly died four years ago.

BP removes the blowout preventer that failed to stem the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well and says it has paid $8bn (£5.2bn) in damage costs.

A plane crash in southern Mexico has killed all six people on board, including two federal legislators and two mayors-elect. Mexico – Aviation accidents and incidents – Aviation – Transportation – United States

Fidel Castro dusted off his full military uniform for the first time since stepping down as president four years ago, a symbolic act in a communist country where little signals often carry enormous significance.

BP says the cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill has risen to $8bn – a rise of more than $2bn in the last month alone.