A 5-year-old British boy who was kidnapped and held in Pakistan for two weeks has arrived safely back in Britain, and preliminary charges have been filed in Spain against three people allegedly involved in the crime.

A rocket fired by Gaza militants has smashed into a greenhouse in an Israeli border village, killing a Thai worker in the first such death since Israel's massive offensive against Hamas-ruled Gaza more than a year ago.

An ongoing investigation into a U.S. prescription-drug ring linked to the recently deceased Canadian actor Corey Haim has yielded an arrest, just days after the former teen idol was laid to rest in Toronto.

A Holocaust survivor who says she met Anne Frank in a Nazi concentration camp is standing by her story in the face of skepticism from historians, filmmakers and a childhood friend of the diarist

Sixteen Canadian tourists and eight Ecuadorean crew members were rescued from a yacht that ran aground in the Galapagos Islands, officials said Thursday.

Sudan's government and a collection of Darfur rebel groups signed a cease-fire Thursday -- the second such deal in less than a month with a key rebel faction -- opening the way for political negotiations ahead of a full peace agreement.

A Polish court convicted three men Thursday of the theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December.

Days from now, a stately black schooner will sail through a narrow channel into Havana's protected harbour, its two masts bearing the rarest of sights -- the U.S. Stars and Stripes, with the Cuban flag fluttering nearby.

A crowded bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river in western Nepal on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and leaving another nine missing, officials said.

Beijing needs to take seriously American concerns about the value of the Chinese currency, but bilateral disputes should not impede co-operation on global issues such as climate change and Iran's nuclear program, the U.S. ambassador to Beijing said Thursday.

Parts of southern China are suffering from the worst drought in decades, leaving millions of people with inadequate water and huge areas of farmland too dry to plant, state media reported Thursday.

Pushing toward a history-making vote, Democrats struggled to eliminate lingering complications standing in the way of House action this weekend on President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday opened two days of talks with Russian leaders on nuclear arms control and other security issues, and separately with top international diplomats on the outlook for bringing Israel and the Palestinians back to peace talks.

A month after losing control of their southern base in Marjah, the Taliban have begun to fight back, launching a campaign of assassination and intimidation to frighten people from supporting the U.S. and its Afghan allies.

A Chicago man accused of helping scout out the Indian city of Mumbai before the 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead is expected to plead guilty Thursday to federal charges in a case involving a Canadian.

Thousands of demonstrators remained encamped in the historic heart of the Thai capital Thursday, vowing to stir up a "class war" until the government is ousted.

Russia must defend its claims to mineral riches of the Arctic in increasing competition with other powers, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday.

The United States has reached an agreement with other countries to cancel US$1.6 billion in foreign debt owed by Afghanistan to creditor nations and international lending organizations.

The author of a tell-all book about former U.S. senator John Edwards, says he is surprised the mistress of his former boss has chosen to speak about her lifestyle to a major U.S. magazine and posed for a risque photo shoot.