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  • Kenya: 10 million risk hunger after harvests fail

    Ten million people risk going hungry in Kenya after harvests failed because of drought, the government said Friday.

  • Ambulances are parked near the site of explosions in Lahore, Pakistan Friday, Jan. 9, 2009. Four small bombs exploded outside a theater and near a major government building in an eastern Pakistan city late Friday but there were no casualties, police said.

    Series of small bombs strikes eastern Pakistan

    Five small bombs exploded outside two theaters in a major eastern Pakistan city late Friday, but there were no casualties, police and other officials said. Photo Gallery Available

  • Staff members of Sunday Leader newspaper mourn near the body of editor Lasantha Wickramatunga at Athidiya in the suburbs of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009. Gunmen on a motorcycle Thursday shot and killed the editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper critical of the government, the second violent attack on media this week.

    Sri Lankan editor's killing condemned

    Foreign governments and human rights groups called Friday for a full investigation into the killing of a newspaper editor who was harshly critical of the government, saying the attack posed a severe threat to independent media in Sri Lanka. Photo Gallery Available

  • French teenagers charged in attack on Jewish girl

    A juvenile court judge filed preliminary charges against four French teenagers accused of attacking a Jewish girl, a judicial official said Friday, amid tensions around Europe over the fighting in Gaza.

  • Cambodian genocide judges reject corruption claims

    Cambodian judges denied Friday that they paid kickbacks to government officials to secure jobs on a genocide tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders.

  • A parachute dropped by a small aircraft is observed, in this U.S. Navy photo, as it drops over the MV Sirius Star Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, during an apparent payment via a parachuted container to pirates holding the ship. Somali pirates released the oil-laden Saudi supertanker after receiving a $3 million ransom, a negotiator for the bandits said Friday. The ship owner did not confirm it. The MV Sirius Star, a brand new tanker with a 25-member crew, was seized in the Indian Ocean Nov. 15 in a dramatic escalation of high seas crime.

    Negotiator: pirates get $3 mil for Saudi tanker

    After reportedly receiving a $3 million ransom dropped by parachute, pirates said they released a captured Saudi supertanker Friday, ending a two-month drama that helped galvanize international efforts to fight piracy off Africa's coast. Photo Gallery Available

  • US travel rules change for those not needing visa

    U.S. officials say people from countries that do not need visas to enter the United States must begin registering under a new travel authorization program before making their journey.

  • Iraq PM warns police against politicizing

    Iraq's prime minister warned police cadets Friday against favoring political or religious groups as they join a security force that has been heavily influenced by militias and extremists.

  • US troops in Iraq get to drink beer for Super Bowl

    American troops in Iraq will be allowed to drink beer without fear of court-martial for this year's Super Bowl - an exception to a strict military ban on drinking alcohol in combat zones.

  • UN rights chief wants investigation of Gaza abuses

    The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights called Friday for an independent war crimes investigation in Gaza after reports that Israeli forces shelled a house full of Palestinian civilians, killing 30 people.

  • Rights group decries Vietnam's press restrictions

    A U.S.-based human rights group denounced the recent firing of two Vietnamese newspaper editors, saying Friday that the incident signaled a clampdown by the communist government on the state-controlled media.

  • China bans diet drug, says it can harm heart

    China's top food and drug regulator has ordered a halt to the sale and production of the weight-loss drug fenfluramine hydrochloride, citing its harmful side effects.

  • Afghan held for forced abortion of his sister

    The 14-year-old Afghan rape victim told the doctor that her brother took her to a cowshed, where he and her mother held her down as he cut out her 5-month fetus with a razor blade, then stitched up the wound with string.

  • U. S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden seen wearing a civilian award Hilal-e-Pakistan confered on him by the President of Pakistan on Friday, Jan. 9, 2009 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Biden, who is on a day visit to Pakistan met Pakistani leadership to discuss bilateral and regional security issues.

    Biden visits Pakistan amid India tensions

    Pakistan said Friday that it has sent "feedback" and information to India about the Mumbai attacks, and Joe Biden came here to underscore how seriously the incoming U.S. administration takes the terror threat from South Asia. Photo Gallery Available

  • In this Monday, Jan. 5, 2009 file photo, Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City. At least 169 children and teens, ages 17 and under, have been killed, and many more wounded since Dec. 27, according to Palestinian medics and human rights researchers. In the ongoing chaos, with medics still unable to retrieve all bodies and some of the dead disfigured, exact figures are not yet available.

    UN: Probe Israeli shelling of Gaza building

    With fighting all around them, Israeli troops knocked on the door of the Samouni clan in Gaza City last weekend and told them to leave, directing them to the building owned by a relative. Twenty-four hours later, three shells slammed into the structure where dozens of people were huddling, according to survivor accounts Friday.

  • A gas station attendant fills petrol in a bottle as people wait in a queue in Bangalore, India, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009. Officials say a strike by thousands of executives of India's state-run oil companies demanding salary hikes has left nearly 60 percent of gas pumps dry and delayed flights across India.

    Three-day oil sector strike in India ends

    About 55,000 white collar workers at state-run oil companies called off a three-day strike late Friday, the petroleum minister said, after causing a severe fuel shortage in India. Photo Gallery Available

  • Palestinian children stand near the remains of an Israeli missile that landed in a building in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with a bloody offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 700 people.

    UN: One-third of Gaza dead, injured are children

    Palestinian children are dying at a heavy rate in the Israeli-Hamas fighting - about one of every three persons killed, according to Gaza statistics. Photo Gallery Available

  • Syrian men walk under a poster showing Syrian President Bashar Assad, in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday Dec. 14, 2008. Syria has responded to Israel's Gaza offensive with harsh words for the Israelis and expressions of firm support for Hamas. But it's unlikely Syria will do much more.

    Analysis: Syria deals with Gaza, eyeing own peace

    Syria has responded to Israel's Gaza offensive with harsh words for the Israelis and expressions of firm support for Hamas. But it's unlikely to do much more. Photo Gallery Available

  • Sri Lankan army soldiers ride a battle tank as the national flag of Sri Lanka is seen in the background in Tamil Tiger rebels' fallen administrative capital of Kilinochchi, about 240 kilometers (149 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009. Government troops captured a strategic Tamil Tiger-held town Monday, as Sri Lankans raised flags and held a moment of silence to honor the military as it battles to end the country's 25-year-old civil war.

    Sri Lanka captures key rebel base at Elephant Pass

    Sri Lankan troops on Friday captured Elephant Pass, the Tamil Tigers' last stronghold on the Jaffna peninsula, seizing control of a base and a symbolic highway, and isolating the retreating rebels in a shrinking slice of northeastern jungle. Photo Gallery Available

  • Ukrainian first foreigner to die in Gaza fighting

    A Gaza health official says a Ukrainian woman has been killed by an Israeli tank shell. She is the first foreign national to die in nearly two weeks of violence in the Palestinian territory.


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