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.