Six men and a 16-year-old boy charged as an adult pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Thursday in the slaying of a Panhandle couple who adopted 13 children, many with special needs.

When a small plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River last week, it was only the second time in decades that crowded skies near Manhattan led to a midair crash.

A double suicide bombing devastated a cafe packed with young people in northwestern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 21 people, officials said.

Stevan Dozier was 25 when he punched a woman in the face to snatch her purse, part of the cash-for-crack crime wave that plagued big cities during the 1980s.

When bomb blasts tore through two luxury hotels in Indonesia’s capital where Andi Suhandi worked as a florist, he tried to phone a colleague to make sure he was safe.

The Iraqi government insisted that it’s not up to the United States to negotiate over Iraq’s security with Syria as a delegation from the Obama administration arrived Wednesday in Damascus.

Iran’s foreign minister said Wednesday during a visit to Bolivia that his country opposes an impending deal to expand the U.S. military’s presence in Colombia.

The subversion trial of an activist who had investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in a massive earthquake opened in southwestern China, as police detained and threatened his supporters.

Philippine troops suffered one of their worst losses in an offensive against al-Qaeda-linked militants on a southern island, leaving at least 23 soldiers and 20 guerrillas dead, officials said early today.

Cuba has unveiled what it says is a recent photograph of ex- President Fidel Castro, showing him looking healthier than in other pictures since he underwent surgery three years ago.