US secretly fed political satire to Cuba in social media

Humanitarian group claims tool was designed only for individual use

Activists campaign to save Moscow steel tower from being dismantled

Thousands of Muscovites and several top international architects have launched a campaign to save a conical steel tower that has marked Moscow's skyline since 1922.

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Opposition warns Abe could 'destabilize' region

PM has alienated key allies, made 'authoritarian tendencies clear'

Blast in Pakistan market kills 23 amid Taliban peace talks

A bomb tore through a bustling fruit and vegetable market in Islamabad on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, police said, the latest violence to hit government peace talks with the Taliban.

Hagel says US not 'containing China'

Pentagon chief: Growth in region an opportunity for all countries

Moscow warns Kiev of 'civil war' in Ukraine

'Anti-terrorist' operation launched against pro-Russian separatists

Getty Museum to return stolen Bible manuscript

The J. Paul Getty Museum said on Monday it will return a 12th-century New Testament manuscript to a monastery in Greece after museum officials learned it was stolen decades before the museum acquired it in 1983.

UN group puts New Zealand human rights image in doubt

New Zealand's reputation for human rights has taken a battering after a United Nations working group took the government to task on its justice and prison systems, human rights groups said on Tuesday.

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Cuba accuses US of subverting govt

Cuba said on Sunday the United States continues to use social media to "subvert" the island's government and that last week's revelation of a US-created, Twitter-like service for Cuba was just one of several examples.

Pro-Russians declare independence in eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk

Pro-Russian activists who seized the main administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk proclaimed the creation of a sovereign "people's republic" independent from Kiev on Monday.