Suicide bomber kills 5 police in Dagestan

Five police officers were killed and at least 14 injured Wednesday in the Russian Republic of Dagestan after a suicide bomber detonated himself at a traffic police station, a Russian Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman told CNN.

China and the United States, the largest producers of greenhouse gases, will team up to fight climate change and create clean energy, their leaders said Tuesday.

Jean Baptiste Vanise has been to Port-au-Prince’s Holy Trinity School and Craft Center three times since Tuesday’s quake, listening for some word from the son she believes is trapped inside.

Iran has stepped up efforts to combat what it calls American “plots,” according to state media, with at least $20 million approved for a special committee to thwart such schemes.

Two men from the minority Sikh community in Pakistan’s tribal northwest were kidnapped and beheaded on Sunday, authorities said this week. Two others remain in custody.

One person was killed and 16 others were injured after an explosion in central Kabul Tuesday, officials said.

Authorities have raided a monastery in southern Germany as part of a probe into allegations that priests sexually abused children there, prosecutors said.

A resolution calling for independent investigations into alleged war crimes committed by Israel and Hamas during last winter’s Gaza war was the focus of debate in the U.N. General Assembly.

China “resolutely opposes” a planned trip by the Dalai Lama to Taiwan, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Thursday, hours after Taiwan’s president announced the visit.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Copenhagen early Thursday morning amid concerns that time is running out at the climate change summit for world leaders to agree a deal to combat global warming.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said more than 40 people had been detained in a probe into an alleged coup plot against Turkey’s ruling political party.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has reached back 13.2 billion years — farther than ever before in time and space — to reveal a “primordial population” of galaxies never seen before.

Peruvian President Alan Garcia left Singapore on the eve of the APEC summit after reports surfaced that an air force officer was accused of spying for the Chilean government, Peru’s foreign minister said.

A NATO team arrived in northern Afghanistan late Friday night to investigate an airstrike that killed at least 90 people, a military spokeswoman said.

A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck the Pacific near American Samoa, triggering towering tsunami waves that gushed over the island and leaving at least 22 people dead.

In the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, a small radio station became an informational lifeline for people in Port-au-Prince and beyond.