(CNN) -- For those following the Confederations Cup game on television around the world, Brazil's 2-0 victory over Mexico in the north-eastern city of Fortaleza seemed a routine affair.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Seven al-Qaida-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked the U.N. compound Wednesday with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least 13 people before dying in the assault.

BEIRUT: The courtyard of the U.N.-run Yarmouk primary school in Burj al-Barajneh was packed, not with students blithely running in between classes, but with newly arrived Palestinian refugees from Syria coming to claim cash distributions doled out by the ...

Since making her final, pre-delivery public appearance last Saturday, the Duchess of Cambridge has left everyone from monarchy-deprived Americans to Kate Middleton impersonators anxiously refreshing their twitter feeds to make sure they don't miss out on ...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday that his organization is assisting former defense contractor Edward Snowden in an attempt to broker asylum for the 29-year-old contractor in Iceland.

Erdem Gunduz, the “Standing Man” performance artist who instigated a wave of peaceful protests throughout Turkey, participated in the Kennedy Center's Cultural Exchange Visitors Program in 2007.

North Korea has expressed willingness to restart long-stalled nuclear talks with international partners, China's foreign ministry has said.

The United States on Wednesday welcomed a ceasefire deal signed between the government of Mali and Tuareg rebels, paving the way for presidential elections to be held next month.

Mr Horn had been admitted to hospital after suffering a long illness, the government told the Hungarian news agency MTI, without providing further details.

By Jibran Ahmad. PESHAWAR, Pakistan | Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:53am EDT. PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 30 people, including a provincial legislator, gathered for the funeral of a businessman in northern Pakistan on Tuesday, ...

The husband of murdered rape victim Jill Meagher has hit out at the sentence handed down to her killer Adrian Bayley, saying his wife would still be alive if the justice system had taken the serial sex offender off the streets.

Shimon Peres hails the former US president as "a servant of humanity" at Facing Tomorrow conference in Jerusalem. William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, is known to be an emotional human being.

The Holy See has yet to reveal what the miracle was or where and when it took place but Vatican sources said it would “amaze the world”.

Pope Francis has given a 17-year-old boy with Down Syndrome the ride of his life _ sort of. Francis invited Alberto di Tullio up onto his open-top Mercedes at the end of his general audience Wednesday, letting him spin around on the pontiff's white chair while ...