North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has issued a special pardon to two detained US journalists after former US President Bill Clinton made an unannounced visit to Pyongyang. Laura Ling and Euna Lee had been found guilty of entering illegally in March.

An angry Khartoum journalist who works for the UN in Sudan started a campaign against shariah law by elevating a local police matter into an international embarrassment: She's invited the world to witness her judicial flogging. Where are the feminists?

The Obama administration is working on a new approach that may soften some sanctions against the Sudan government. Obama's UN ambassador, Susan Rice, who helped draft the sanctions, argues for a tougher stance, declaring that genocide continues in Darfur.

orth Korea announced Tuesday that it had pardoned two detained American journalists, hours after former president Bill Clinton met in Pyongyang with reclusive dictator Kim Jong Il as part of an unannounced and highly unusual diplomatic mission to win thei

Reporting from Seoul and Manila -- Corazon C. Aquino, the unassuming housewife who toppled a dictator and restored democracy to the Philippines as its 11th president, has died. She was 76.

LONDON - Harry Patch, Britain's last survivor of the trenches of World War I, was a reluctant soldier who became a powerful eyewitness to the horror of war, and a symbol of a lost generation. Patch, who died Saturday at 111, was wounded in 1917

American communities plagued by threats of extortion, deadly kidnappings

Police have been handed 'Chinese-style' powers to enter private homes and seize political posters during the London 2012 Olympics.

Township residents armed with sticks, clubs and stones invade roads and Faerie Knowe suburb in Western Cape, South Africa. Police and neighbourhood watch react, but much property damage. Care2 member in the thick of it...

A petition carrying nearly 680,000 signatures has been delivered to the UN Secretary General demanding that he make the release of political prisoners in Burma a personal priority. Free all political prisoners! Free Aung San Suu Kyi! Free Burma! NOW!!!