Saudi-led warplanes carried out new strikes on an arms depot in the rebel-held Yemeni capital on Tuesday, hours before a five-day cease-fire were scheduled to begin.
Discontent with US policy toward Iran is behind the last-minute pullout by Saudi King Salman from a summit with US President Barack Obama this week, analysts say.
The White House is dismissing as untrue an article alleging that US President Barack Obama misled the public about how the US killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
A masked gang wielding machetes hacked a secular blogger to death on Tuesday in northeastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack by suspected Islamists since February.
French President Francois Hollande urged on Monday an end to the US embargo on Cuba, during the first visit by a Western leader to the island since Washington and Havana moved to restore ties.
A Picasso oil painting from 1955 smashed the record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction when it soared to $179.4 million at Christie's on Monday.
1, Pablo Picasso The Women of Algiers (Version 0)$179.4 million at Christie's in New York on Monday.
Anne-Marie Saintou walks with a megaphone along the dusty lanes of a Haitian fishing village, imploring people not to make the same mistake she did. "Ladies, say 'NO!'" she shouts. "We will not give away our children anymore."
Starring in music videos at the age of 100, Eileen Kramer is probably the oldest working dancer and choreographer in Australia, if not the world - and the centenarian revels in her age.
Japanese ruling party officials signed off on Monday on bills to implement a drastic change in security policy that would expand the role of the nation's military in the US-Japan alliance and allow it to fight abroad for the first time since World War II.
An American museum has returned a 10th-century sandstone statue of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman to Cambodia, decades after it was looted from a jungle temple in the civil war.
Janaki Karmacharya sits on a plastic chair under the tarpaulin that now serves as her office and despairs at the wreckage of her once magnificent library in the heart of Kathmandu.
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