Italian police have arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities said.
The death toll in an explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early on Saturday rose to 42 workers with 66 still missing, state news agency Xinhua said.
Al-Qaeda gunmen have seized a Japanese engineer from his kidnappers in Yemen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said on Saturday.
Sri Lanka says it plans to let war-displaced civilians move freely in and out of internment camps ahead of completing their planned re-settlement in two months.
Officials say they have confiscated 75 tons of an explosive material being shipped from Malaysia to Indonesia and are investigating possible links to terrorism.
Cuba's government has offered its first free penis implants, part of a program set to be expanded across the communist island, a newspaper has reported.
Hugo Chavez is defending alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was a "revolutionary fighter."
Thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned their bodies for a set of wheel rims and some flat-screen televisions, court documents show.
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain went on sale for 15,000 euros ($A24,343) on auction website eBay before the company pulled the ad.
Publisher HarperCollins says Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book.
A British couple being held hostage by Somali pirates have said in an interview that they fear they will be killed if a ransom is not paid soon.
American exchange student Amanda Knox wept at the trial in which she is accused of murdering her British housemate in Perugia two years ago.
A US judge sentenced the leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago to 13 years in prison Friday, far less than the 70 years sought by prosecutors.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling a meeting of eight Amazon countries to forge a common stand on climate talks, officials said.
A lawyer for the US Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room.
A New York man is giving city authorities and a hospital an earful for allegedly tossing his ear in the trash after it was ripped off by a dog, a report says.
A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth.
Palestinian officials say a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month.
Police say a man with an automatic rifle opened fire on a car near a Paris train station, killing one man and wounding two others.
A British man who strangled his wife in his sleep because he dreamt she was an intruder has been freed after prosecutors withdrew the case against him.
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