Pakistani soldiers entered the Taliban headquarters in South Waziristan on Friday, the military said, as gunmen wounded an army brigadier and his driver in a drive-by shooting in the capital.

The UN nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting the Islamic Republic's scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian reported in its Friday edition.

Hurricane Ida unleashed heavy rains as it neared Nicaragua's coast early Thursday, with forecasters warning that it could make landfall in a few hours.

The H1N1 virus has now become the dominant influenza virus around the globe, with high levels and an increase of activity in many regions, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

A suspected drone strike killed at least four people in a mountainous border region where the Taliban has long operated, Pakistani officials said Thursday.

Thousands of conservative activists converged Thursday on Capitol Hill to protest the Democrats' plan to overhaul the U.S. health-care system, denouncing the legislation as a government takeover that imposes Canadian-style care on Americans.

Google Inc. on Thursday launched new privacy controls so users can see the reams of personal information the Internet giant is storing about them and insist the data are deleted if they want.

The Taliban scored another propaganda victory Thursday when the UN decided to relocate more than half of its foreign workers from Afghanistan because it had become too dangerous for them to continue to work there.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday he did not wish to run for re-election in January, voicing disappointment at Washington for "favouring" Israel in arguments over re-launching peace talks.

Saudi Arabia has launched heavy air strikes on rebels in northern Yemen and is moving troops nearer the border after a raid into its territory by the Shiite insurgents, a Saudi government adviser said on Thursday.

More than half of all Russians do not know who built the Berlin Wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War, an opinion poll showed on Thursday.

Photographer Yannis Behrakis captures life as a visually impaired child in the West Bank.

One year after Chinese doctors defined six-hours online a day as Internet addiction, the Ministry of Health moved to make it illegal to use physical punishment or forced detention to treat the problem.

A 68-year-old Canadian man has been jailed for a year for indecent acts with two Cambodian sisters aged 10 and 12, a judge said Thursday.

Women might not believe men's claims of buying Playboy for the articles, but Harvard researchers say the fellas are swallowing their own story, hook, line and sinker.

Neighbours of alleged U.S. serial killer Anthony Sowell had apparently complained about a foul smell for years, but many believed it was coming from a sausage factory next door.

The bi-annual fashion extravaganza showcases China's fashion houses and their latest collections to buyers all over the world.

Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group denied on Thursday any connection with a shipment of weapons that Israel said it had intercepted on the high seas.