Iran’s official news agency says 25 more activists and opposition supporters have gone on trial over their alleged involvement in the post-election turmoil.

Russia’s envoy to NATO said Sunday that operations to find a missing freighter and its 15 Russian crew members are in full swing and he was optimistic of quick success.

Part of a building under construction in Dubai collapsed Sunday, but there was no indication of widespread casualties, authorities said.

North Korea’s state news agency is reporting that leader Kim Jong Il met the chairwoman of South Korea’s Hyundai Group.

Two Russian air force fighters collided Sunday as they rehearsed for an air show near Moscow, killing a pilot and sending one jet crashing into houses below, a military official said.

A British man has been sentenced to three-and-a-half-years in prison after burglars found images of child pornography on his stolen laptop and turned it over to the police.

The crew of two Egyptian fishing vessels overpowered Somali pirates after being held hostage for four months and, with machetes and tools, killed at least two pirates before sailing to freedom, a pirate and businessman said Friday.

Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal is upholding a lower court ruling ordering the Canadian government to seek the return of the last Western detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

Five New Zealanders who were convicted of manslaughter for the drowning death of their niece in an exorcism ceremony avoided jail terms Friday.

Former reformist lawmakers appealed to a powerful clerical body in Iran to investigate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s qualification to rule in an unprecedented challenge to the country’s most powerful man over the postelection crackdown