The Taliban said they were responsible for the killings, which came after they said they were ready for peace talks.

A son and daughter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the longtime Libyan leader, moved to Oman after having spent nearly two years in Algeria, where they had fled before their father was caught and killed.

The French public and news media were closely following the case against Franck Ribéry and Karim Benzema, who are accused of paying an under-age girl for sex.

Militants opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the troubled northeast, killing at least nine of them, witnesses said Tuesday.

The mayor, Michael Applebaum, denied that he was guilty of any of the 14 charges he now faces, but he said it would not be possible to act as mayor while defending himself.

In a speech in Berlin on Wednesday, the President Obama will resume a drive toward disarmament that had been largely shunted aside.

In speech in Berlin, president to propose the nations reduce their nuclear warhead stockpiles by up to a-third, senior WH official says

Officials say Walter Lee Williams, 65, sought for alleged sex crimes with children, was caught in resort city of Playa del Carmen

The Israeli divide was on stark display last week, as several right-wing ministers in the government professed their opposition to a Palestinian state.

A lesson in tough love from American military mentors is proving costly in lives and limbs as Afghan troops seek to demonstrate their self-reliance by the planned NATO withdrawal in 2014.