The Obama administration called Saturday for the United Nations Security Council to send a clear message to the "tyrant in Damascus": Stop the bloodshed and allow democracy.
Thousands of people marched in Russian capital Moscow Saturday in a pro-democracy protest over the power of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, according to reports.
Last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians with 3,021 killed, a rise of 8 percent from the year before as insurgents ratchet up violence , the United Nations said.
A 49-year-old brigadier general died of apparently natural causes in Afghanistan, the Army said Friday, the highest-ranking soldier to die during the war.
Protesters laid siege to Egypt's Interior Ministry on Friday, pushing their protest against the military-led government in a show of anger triggered by the country's worst soccer disaster.
The current standoff with Iran is similar to the 'fateful' period before the 1967 Arab-Israel war, when Israel launched a preemptive strike, said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
The number of methamphetamine “super labs” seized by Mexican authorities has rocketed in the last five years but shipments of the drug across the border have also continued to grow.
Britain's Prince William has arrived in the Falkland Islands for a stint as a military search-and-rescue pilot, the defense ministry said, even as tension resurfaces between London and Argentina over sovereignty of the British-ruled territory.
A sensitive conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was recorded by the very people they were trying to catch, the hacking group known as Anonymous claimed Friday.
Irmela Mensah-Schramm has embarked on her very personal "combat mission" almost daily for 26 years. Her weapons? A scraper, nail-polish remover, a camera and lots of courage. NBC News' Andy Eckardt reports.
In the past 50 years, college graduation rates in developed countries have increased nearly 200 percent, according to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The United Nations said Friday that conditions in Somalia have improved enough to downgrade the country's famine, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.
Assailants in pickup trucks fired homemade mortars at a police station in this western town Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding more than 20, the regional police chief said.
Flagging down a black cab on London's streets may prove a little harder during this year's Olympics after taxi drivers had a request to raise fares by 22 percent turned down.
