Israel launches airstrikes against Gaza

Israeli fighter jets attacked what the country said were “terrorist sites” in Gaza in retribution for an earlier attack on the southern town of Sderot, the military said Sunday.

Abu Dhabi stepped in to help troubled fellow emirate Dubai and its state-owned holding company, Dubai World, with $10 billion in financing on Monday.

Two more suspects in the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai, both carrying British passports, have been identified, police said Tuesday.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark in December, state-run media reported Thursday.

Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic launched a full-throated attack on the International War Crimes Tribunal Tuesday, as he appeared at a hearing to discuss his refusal to appear for trial.

Britain’s prime minister on Tuesday defended the mission in Afghanistan as “vital” to protecting his country from terrorists, following the death of the 100th British serviceman in Afghanistan this year.

Accompanied by two smitten young men vying to impress her, a resentful Amanda Knox toyed with a knife and then plunged it into her roommate’s neck, killing her, an Italian prosecutor charged in closing arguments Friday.

While the Honduran government has not released final turnout percentages for last Sunday’s pivotal presidential election, a CNN analysis based on official figures shows that a majority of eligible voters cast ballots in the race.

One of five members of the Electoral Complaints Commission in Afghanistan has resigned amid the group’s probe of allegations of voting fraud during the presidential election.

Jim Boston was a few weeks away from bringing his adopted Haitian daughter, 4-year-old Farica, to Chicago. Now the girl’s paperwork is lost, and adoption agencies are pleading for help in getting kids out of Haiti.

The death toll climbed to 72 in the capsizing of an overloaded ferry in southern Bangladesh as a search continued, police said Monday.

A suspected U.S. drone attack killed 10 people in northwest Pakistan on Thursday morning, officials said.

Pakistan angrily defended the security of its nuclear arsenal Sunday after a U.S. magazine reported that the Obama administration wants Pakistan to let Washington help secure its weapons in a crisis.

The United States is out to destabilize Cuba, President Raul Castro charged Sunday in an address to the National Assembly. “The enemy is as active as always,” Castro said.

Another major Iranian opposition leader used the occasion of the Islamic Revolution’s anniversary period to slam his country’s regime Wednesday and what he termed its tyrannical behavior after the disputed presidential elections in June.

Strong winds and waves delayed rescuers trying to save dozens of passengers after a ferry sank Sunday off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 25, officials said.