Ousted Ukraine leader set to return

In a remarkable comeback, former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich seemed set Monday to become the president of Ukraine — five years after he was ousted in a populist pro-Western uprising dubbed the “Orange Revolution.”

As the Philippines tried to recover from the one-two punch of deadly storms, another typhoon strengthened as it rushed toward it Tuesday.

Her braids, dusty from the rubble around her, poked from the small opening where she lay crying in pain, her right leg pinned under a heavy piece of metal. A group of men worked throughout the day to free this 11-year-old girl.

Treacherous storm conditions have plagued southern Brazilian states for nearly a week, causing flooding and landslides and displacing thousands of people, a senior official tells CNN.

One of two U.S. officials who made a rare trip to Myanmar said Thursday that the United States was willing to improve relations if that nation’s ruling military junta takes tangible steps towards democracy.

Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who went missing last week in a river in western Afghanistan.

The supply line to Haiti is clogged by airport congestion and blocked roads, forcing thousands of earthquake survivors to scrounge for food and emergency aid. But the head of the United Nations is calling for calm among the increasingly desperate populations.

At least one organization attempting to deliver aid to Haiti continued to be plagued Sunday by delays and logistical problems, but aid was getting to those who need it most, officials said.

Indigenous Indians located nine survivors of a plane that crashed in a river in the Amazon rain forest with 11 people onboard, according to the Brazilian air force.

One of the most unexpected controversies of the Obama administration will come to a head Tuesday as the president delivers a hotly debated back-to-school speech to schoolchildren across the country.

President Obama spoke in Copenhagen on Friday to push for an agreement with world leaders on climate change.

Iran is ready to give up some enriched uranium in exchange for fuel that would power a reactor used in cancer research, the country’s foreign minister said Sunday, according to Iranian media.

President Obama says Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will face the “most exacting demands of justice,” but doesn’t address reports that five Guantanamo detainees will be tried in New York.

Mexico City, one of Latin America’s largest metropolises, on Monday legalized same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples.

Venezuelan inspectors, aided by the military, shut down 70 stores Monday as a sanction for allegedly adjusting prices in the wake of a currency devaluation last week, the state-run Bolivarian News Agency reported, citing the inspection agency.

Iran’s influential parliament speaker Ali Larijani said Tuesday that authorities should mete out “the harshest punishment” to protesters who disrupted Ashura observances at the weekend, pictured above.