The earthquake smashed markets, collapsed warehouses and left over 2.5 million people without enough to eat. It may also have shaken up the way the developing world gets food.
Israeli troops killed two Palestinians who tried to stab a soldier on Sunday, the Israeli army said, in West Bank violence that placed further strain on U.S. efforts to get indirect peace talks under way.
China's state media on Sunday accused Google Inc of pushing a political agenda by "groundlessly accusing the Chinese government" of supporting hacker attacks and by trying to export its own culture, values and ideas.
Explosive material was found on a passenger plane after it landed in southern India, but it was not immediately clear whether it was meant to be detonated on a flight, police said on Sunday.
Explosions rumble through Marjah daily — an ominous sign that Taliban insurgents have not given up despite losing control of the town to U.S. and Afghan forces about two weeks ago.
A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were reported.
Hundreds of tribesmen from Pakistan's semiautonomous regions near the Afghan border ended a rare tribal council meeting Saturday with a declaration calling for the army to crush the Taliban.
Thousands rally across Russia to denounce government economic policy and demand more freedom in a new challenge to the Kremlin reflecting increasing disillusionment.
In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce.
British Airways canceled more than 1,000 flights after its cabin crew launched a three-day strike Saturday, wreaking havoc on the plans of tens of thousands of passengers just before the busy spring holiday season.
A Spanish firefighting force says a video released by French officials investigating an alleged ETA shooting does not show the suspected gunmen, but rather a group of Catalan firefighters on holiday.
Pope Benedict XVI tells priests who have abused children to submit to the "demands of justice," according to an open letter addressed to Irish Catholics.
Police arrested three Taliban militants Saturday and seized a bomb-making factory in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi, a counterterrorism official said.
Nepal's former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who served five terms and led mass protests that ended the king's authoritarian rule in the Himalayan nation, died Saturday. He was 86.
British Airways was scrambling to deal with a three-day strike launched by cabin crew Saturday, throwing the plans of tens of thousands of travelers into chaos and risking harm to the Labour government before a tough general election.
Tens of thousands of protesters riding motorcycles and crammed into trucks and cars rolled through the streets of the Thai capital Saturday in a giant caravan to rally residents to their "class war" against the government.
China's capital woke up to orange-tinted skies Saturday as the strongest sandstorm so far this year hit the country’s north, making breathing the air “very bad for health.”
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