A car carrying a 400-pound bomb was driven through barriers at police headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, crashing into a building, police said Sunday.
All 36 crew members of a Spanish fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates more than a month ago have been freed along with their vessel, the Spanish prime minister said Tuesday.
Insurgents were able to use a mass-market software program to view live feeds from U.S. military Predator drones monitoring targets in Iraq, a U.S. official indicated to CNN Thursday.
“Prodigy,” “virtuoso,” “genius” — these are some of the words used to describe Lang Lang — the most popular pianist on the planet.
Togo’s participation at the Africa Cup of Nation in Angola remained in doubt Sunday as the country’s government ordered the national team home following a deadly attack on the team bus — but players indicated they wanted to stay and play.
A 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
North Korea stated its commitment to lasting peace and a nuclear-free Korean peninsula in an editorial published on New Year’s Day, state-run media reported.
U.S. President Barack Obama launches a new chapter in the Afghanistan war, committing an additional 30,000 U.S. troops while setting a goal of starting to bring forces home by July 2011.
A pair of bombings in Pakistan killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens of others Friday, including near an intelligence agency in Peshawar, officials said.
Aid organizations have deployed emergency response teams to Haiti and appealed for donations after the Caribbean nation was struck by a devastating earthquake described by local officials as a “catastrophe of major proportions.”
Suspected Maoists blew up a railway track, a bridge and fired at a bus Monday in eastern India ahead of a planned crackdown by paramilitaries and police.
President Hamid Karzai on Thursday rejected widespread allegations of massive fraud in last month’s elections and said he was awaiting the results of investigations conducted by Afghanistan’s electoral bodies.
A security alert aboard a Northwest Airlines jet ended Sunday after investigators determined the incident — the second in two days involving a Detroit, Michigan-bound flight — was “non-serious,” federal authorities said.
The U.N. human rights special investigator for North Korea on Thursday urged the U.N. Security Council to get involved as North Korea’s citizens face worsening conditions.
Don’t close the coffin on Saab just yet.
Ireland’s justice minister ordered an investigation Tuesday after explosives planted in an unsuspecting passenger’s luggage by authorities as part of a security test in Slovakia made their way to Dublin.