A suspected suicide bomber struck a pro-Palestinian rally in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 50 people and wounding scores of others.

DUBAI—A United Parcel Service Inc.-operated cargo plane, with two crew members aboard, crashed Friday evening on takeoff in Dubai, according to an initial statement from the company.

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- An earthquake that struck New Zealand on Saturday caused "a lot of damage," though there are no reports of serious injuries or major damage, an emergency official said.

MOSCOW - The latest wave of forest fires in Russia has killed eight people and injured 17, authorities said Friday. Fires blazed across much of European Russia in August following weeks of drought and record-high temperatures.

Speculation is rampant that North Korea's Kim Jong-il will go public with plans to name his son his heir at a rare political conference.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's government and the Bundesrat, parliament's upper chamber that represents Germany's 16 states, must get involved in any decision on the Bundesbank's request to dismiss its board ...

Deadly drive-by shootings by Hamas gunmen this week proved that the Palestinian militant group can still operate in the West Bank when its leadership demands, despite a sustained crackdown by Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The Indonesia volcano eruption is only smoke and ash and not life-threatening so far. But some warn that more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are on the way.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino said today he takes full responsibility for the outcome of the bus siege that killed eight members of a Hong Kong tour group.

Six Portuguese men have been jailed after they were found guilty of sexual abuse at a state-run children's home. Carlos Silvino was given an 18-year sentence after confessing to 639 charges relating to the abuse of children or procuring them for others ...

MONTERREY, Mexico - Mexican soldiers killed at least 30 suspected cartel members in two shootouts near the US border in a region that has become one of biggest battlegrounds in the country's drug war, authorities said Friday.

In France, a movement from within the Gypsy community could temper what have been bad relations with European governments amid a hot immigration debate.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro gave his first public speech in front of thousands of people since undergoing surgery four years ago, repeating warnings of imminent nuclear war sparked by conflict ...

The Dutch Liberal Party and the Christian Democratic Alliance failed to agree on forming a coalition with the support of the anti-Islam Freedom Party, leaving the Netherlands without a new government almost three months after elections.

Photo: AP Protests against rising food and fuel prices have spread to central Mozambique, as isolated riots continue for a third day near the capital.

SARATOV, Russia, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Russia has no reason to be short of food, and, despite the drought, has sufficient grain, with carry over stocks of some 21-25 million tonnes, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.

The philosopher Julian Baggini Mattering is a very complicated business. Nothing matters, full stop. You always have to ask what exactly it is that matters, for whom or for what.

Yet another gargantuan traffic jam has gripped the freeway that links Inner Mongolia's coal fields to metropolitan Beijing, possibly exceeding a blockage on the same road that drew global attention last month, Chinese news sources ...

TOKYO, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Japanese ruling party powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, challenging Prime Minister Naoto Kan in a party leadership vote, said on Friday that investing in foreign resources could help curb a rapid rise in the yen.

By Daily Mail Reporter A girl shown in a video throwing puppies into a fast-flowing river has been traced, police in Bosnia said today.