Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir announced Wednesday an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Darfur region of western Sudan.

Police have stepped up security requirements for visitors to the Tibetan capital.

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- A Pakistani man says his 17-year-old daughter was mauled by dogs and shot to death in front of him over a land dispute disguised as a so-called "honor killing." Female senators staged a walkout from the federal parliament Monday

The warming of U.S.-Iranian relations did not begin with Obama's election; it began with the Russo-Georgian War. Read about it, and also about Bush wanting to help Obama to smooth the way for diplomatic relations. Interesting article.

Kenyan police are already providing round-the-clock security for the relatives of the US President-elect Barack Obama at their Nyangoma Kogelo home in Siaya.

The Berlin Wall has been breached after nearly three decades keeping East and West Berliners apart. At midnight East Germany's Communist rulers gave permission for gates along the Wall to be opened after hundreds of people converged on crossing points.

Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.

In country after country, elation over Obama's victory was palpable, the hunger for a change of American leadership as strong outside the U.S. as in it.

Stench of death hangs over eastern town as violence spreads

All About Male (The Capital) While Male may be the capital of the Maldives âEUR" a place where visitors almost exclusively arrive into and leave from the country, itâEUR(TM)s interesting that many visitors do not spend a single night in Male. This is bec...