A Shiite militant group in Iraq has posted an Internet video showing an American it says it abducted and who appears to be a contractor reported missing by the U.S. military.

In a closed courtroom in one of the few government buildings still standing here, Laura Silsby and nine other American missionaries were charged Thursday with abducting children from this earthquake-ravaged capital.

Five cases of Scotch whisky have been found embedded in the ice beneath an Antarctic hut used by explorer Ernest Shackleton a century ago.

A Chinese rickshaw driver has started chaining his son to a lamp post when he goes on fares, fearing the child will be kidnapped.

U.S. counterterrorism officials believe Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead following a missile attack last month, a senior intelligence official said Wednesday in the strongest signal that Washington has offered about the militant’s fate.

A roadside bomb killed 3 U.S. soldiers and flattened a girls’ school in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack that drew attention to a little-publicized American military training mission in the Al Qaeda and Taliban heartland.

A woman looking at a tourist webcam spotted a man who was lost on sea ice and saved his life by calling police.

Brazilian ministers have defied eco-activists’ protests and agreed a licence for a controversial large hydroelectric dam deep in the Amazon rainforest.

Once considered so entwined that they were twin targets of a U.S. invasion, Al Qaeda and elements of Afghanistan’s Taliban are now being surgically separated — one careful stitch at a time.

A female homicide bomber walking among Shiite pilgrims in northern Baghdad detonated an explosives belt on Monday, killing at least 41 people and wounding more than 100, officials said.

Israel has disciplined two army officers over firing white phosphorus shells into Gaza last year.

A group of 10 American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying take 33 children out of Haiti.

NATO says two U.S. service members and one U.S. employee have been killed in eastern Afghanistan.

Police on Friday seized weapons used by two New Zealand men to slaughter more than 30 dogs owned by a neighbor in what animal welfare authorities said could be the country’s worst animal cruelty case.

The late Pope John Paul II, who has been put on the fast track to sainthood by the Vatican, regularly whipped himself as an act of penance to feel closer to God, according to a new book.