This November 4, 2009 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration handout satellite image shows Tropical Depression 11 formed just off the coast of Costa Rica.

A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

The United Nations said today that it is temporarily relocating more than half its staff in Afghanistan following last week's deadly Taliban attack. The UN mission is still reeling from a pre-dawn assault on a guesthouse in the capital last

Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City, authorities said Wednesday.

Open crates from a cargo ship seized Wednesday by Israel revealed dark green missiles inside. Containers from the vessel bore writing in English that said "I.R. Iranian Shipping Lines Group." Israel alleged that the shipment of hundreds of tons of

An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.

Tropical storm Ida has formed in the southwest Caribbean, quickly adding muscle and prompting storm warnings for the coast of Nicaragua and two Colombian islands.

Afghan opium production is on the rise, helping to fund the Taliban and other terror groups and having a devastating impact across the world, experts say.

An earthquake has hit the southern part of Iran. The official news agency of Iran has reported major injuries from the incident, with 100 people being hospitalised.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesday, saying Washington does not accept the legitimacy of the West Bank enclaves and wants to see their construction halted "forever."

An Afghan policeman opened fire on British soldiers in the volatile southern province of Helmand, killing five, British and Afghan authorities said Wednesday, raising concerns about discipline within the Afghan forces and possible infiltration by insurgents.

President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.

A 39-year-old woman was found dead on a railway line just three days after her father was killed on the same stretch of track, it has emerged.

Exorcisms have long been a part of Catholicism, yet they are something most Catholics have never experienced.

A seven-year-old child was hurt Tuesday afternoon by Arabs hurling rocks at the car in which she was a passenger while riding near the Maccabim-Reut junction on Route 443, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The incident occurred next to the

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in Washington to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, will speak on Tuesday to a joint meeting of both houses of the US Congress.

British coup-plotter Simon Mann and four South African mercenaries have been pardoned for plotting the overthrow of the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, the country's chief judge told The Associated Press on Tuesday.Supreme Court Chief Justice Obono Olo said Mann

Nov 2 - Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou's plane belches smoke fire during a domestic flight from Taipei to Taichung on Sunday .

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, chat with Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a welcoming ceremony Monday in St.

Liberian media are reporting that a government official has been shot and killed by a gang of men outside the African country's capital.