Karzai maintains lead in Afghan vote count

Afghan President Hamid Karzai leads his rivals as votes are counted in the country’s presidential election, election officials announced Wednesday.

Iran’s envoy to the International International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the window for nuclear negotiations is still open — even as tensions rise over Iran’s decision to defy the world on uranium enrichment.

The earthquake of 2010 is not the first one of this magnitude in Chile’s long, traumatic history.

A judge in Haiti said he expects to make a decision soon on the possible release of two American missionaries detained on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the earthquake in January.

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A young man with tattoos covering one arm rolls hundreds of marijuana joints in the half-light of a shack, perched on a hillside in a Medellin slum.

A strong earthquake rocked Bhutan on Monday, blocking access roads in the mountainous Asian kingdom and killing at least five people, the country’s home minister told CNN.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations made her first trip to Iraq on Saturday, discussing how to help the country move on from debt and sanctions and expressing sympathy over massive bombings in August.

Take a tour of one of the world’s largest gun markets in the tribal area of northwest Pakistan, where craftsmen working with little more than their bare hands produce more than 1,000 weapons a day.

With fish as witnesses, the president of Maldives and his Cabinet wore scuba gear and used hand signals Saturday at an underwater meeting to highlight the threat climate change poses to the archipelago nation.

Pakistan’s interior minister, citing police evidence gathered after a deadly house bombing Friday, said people at the dwelling had been planning to attack him during a court appearance in Karachi.

The Venezuelan government initiated a new charge against a private television broadcaster and said that 29 additional radio stations would soon be closed, the latest move in what critics call a crackdown on freedom of expression.

A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people Monday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by detonating explosives outside a bank where people had lined up to pick up their monthly checks, police said.

Once there was a golf course and a swanky club. Almost two weeks after Haiti’s killer quake, the sweeping hills of The Petionville Club have transformed into a city of misery.

A search party of hundreds hunted for a hot-air balloon that had been reported catching fire and crashing in southern China, arriving in time to save only three of the seven people aboard.

Paul and Rachel Chandler, a British couple kidnapped by pirates off Somalia, have been moved to a hijacked Spanish ship that pirates have stocked with more supplies and armed men, a pirate source said Friday.