Insurgents, Afghan media confirm Taliban has seized control of Kunduz after staging a well-coordinated pre-dawn offensive
Pope to address both US Congress and UN General Assembly, canonize controversial religious figure, deliver Mass at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia
Bond, who led student protests against segregation in volatile South during civil rights era in 1960s, 'helped change this country for the better. And what better way to be remembered than that,' President Obama says
Lewis Fogle, now 63, has spent more than half his life in prison; He was convicted of the murder of a 15-year-old girl
Taliban gunmen massacred 134 children at an army-run school in Peshawar last year
Theme, 'Vulnerable Populations in Emergencies,' highlights needs of women and adolescent girls during conflicts and humanitarian disasters
Report alleges range of exploitation, including intimidation and violence, squalid accommodations, excessive working hours, no weekly rest days, unpaid overtime
President leaves Monday night for stops in Poland, Belgium and France
Mariam Yahya Ibrahim, who gave birth to a daughter this week, was convicted of apostasy and given four days to abandon her faith
Ben Affleck's Iran hostage drama won Best Dramatic Motion Picture
Hugo Chavez's win brought a sigh of relief to his leftist allies around the Latin American region who rely on his oil-financed generosity
New York Times says Iraq's Elaf Islamic Bank participates in the Iraq Central Bank’s daily auction and facilitates transactions worth millions of dollars
American Dana Vollmer takes gold in women's 100-meter butterfly in record time; US gymnastics champion Jordyn Wieber fails to qualify for finals
