Nigeria's military on Saturday imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of a northeastern city as it pressed on with a campaign against Boko Haram Islamists that has sent residents fleeing the region. More »Nigeria imposes curfew in campaign against Islamists
Violence in Iraq on Saturday killed eight people including a police officer, his wife and two children, and gunmen also kidnapped five police officers, officials said. More »Iraq violence kills eight, police kidnapped
Turkey has softened its opposition toward a Russia-US brokered international conference on Syria following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's trip to the United States, local media said Saturday. More »Turkey 'softens opposition' to Syria conference
Hundreds of gunmen gathered near the headquarters of a provincial security command in Iraq on Saturday, while others ambushed a patrol and kidnapped 10 security force personnel, police said. More »Gunmen mass at Iraq security command HQ
A new case of the deadly coronavirus has been detected in Saudi Arabia where 15 people have already died after contracting it, the health ministry announced on Saturday on its Internet website. More »New case of SARS-like virus in Saudi: ministry
French actor and newly-minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu on Saturday compared President Vladimir Putin to the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent is what Russia needs as a leader. More »Depardieu compares Putin to Pope John Paul II
Jewellery worth $1.4 million due to be loaned to stars at the Cannes Film Festival was stolen from a local hotel in a pre-dawn heist but the coveted Palme d'Or trophy was safe, officials said. More »Cannes Festival rocked as Chopard jewels stolen
When Malcolm X's grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years. More »Mexico violence claims hundreds of US lives
Demonstrators calling for Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi to resign and demanding early elections clashed with riot police in Cairo. More »Clashes at Cairo demo calling on Morsi to resign
A rush-hour collision between two commuter trains in a suburb north of New York City Friday injured 60 passengers, five of them seriously. More »US train accident injures 60 people
Bombs targeting Sunnis, including two near a mosque and one at a funeral procession, killed 67 people in Iraq, officials said, after dozens died in two days of attacks on Shiites. More »Bombs targeting Iraqi Sunnis kill 67
French President Francois Hollande will sign a gay marriage and adoption bill into law Saturday, after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition. More »French president to sign gay marriage bill into law
An Organization of American States report has called for taking a closer look at possibly legalizing marijuana in Latin America. More »Latin American states weigh legalizing pot
General Jorge Videla, Argentina's dictator at the height of its "Dirty War" against leftist activists, died in prison while serving time for crimes against humanity. He was 87. More »Argentina 'Dirty War' dictator Videla dies
The inquest into the death in Britain of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was close to collapse Saturday after the coroner ruled he could not hear evidence about the alleged role of the Kremlin in his poisoning. More »Litvinenko UK inquest in doubt after evidence excluded
Russia's security services have openly named the alleged CIA Moscow station chief in a rare breach of protocol after arresting a purported US intelligence agent working undercover. More »Russian security services name CIA Moscow chief
British detectives said they had identified a number of "people of interest" in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who went missing on holiday in Portugal in 2007. More »'Persons of interest' identified in Madeleine McCann case
An aide to the Japanese premier returned home from a controversial trip to North Korea on Saturday, reportedly saying he had demanded Pyongyang's act swiftly on its kidnapping of Japanese nationals. More »Aide to Japanese PM returns from North Korea
Sri Lanka's main opposition Tamil party Saturday defied a military ban and staged a commemoration of their war dead as the government celebrated the fourth anniversary of defeating Tamil Tiger rebels. More »Sri Lanka Tamils defy ban on rebel memorial
A man was arrested on Friday after causing a scare at the Cannes Film Festival, where he attacked a TV studio with a gun loaded with blanks and a dummy grenade, police and witnesses said. More »Cannes Festival: Man held after scare at TV studio
Nigeria's military on Friday attacked Boko Haram Islamist strongholds across the northeast, launching air strikes on insurgent camp with dozens of militants killed in the fighting, the military said. More »Air strikes, dozens dead in Nigeria assault on Islamists
The Tunisian government on Friday banned hardline Salafist group Ansar al-Sharia from holding its annual congress at the weekend, saying it posed a threat to public order and setting the scene for a possible showdown. More »Tunisia bans Salafist congress in possible showdown
Jewellery worth $1.4 million due to be loaned to stars at the Cannes Film Festival was stolen from a local hotel in a pre-dawn heist on Friday but the coveted Palme d'Or trophy was safe, officials said. More »Cannes Festival rocked as Chopard jewels are stolen
Thousands of Georgian ultra-conservative Orthodox supporters led by priests Friday thwarted an attempt to hold a gay rights rally in the deeply religious ex-Soviet state, smashing through police cordons and forcing activists to flee in fear. More »Church supporters disrupt Georgia gay rights rally
Twin bomb attacks on Friday killed at least 13 people outside mosques in northwest Pakistan, where the party of cricket star Imran Khan is forming a coalition government, officials said. More »Pakistan mosque bombs kill 13: officials