Nearly 800 migrants were brought ashore in Indonesia on Friday, but other crammed vessels were sent back to sea despite a UN call to quickly rescue thousands set adrift in Southeast Asian waters.
Blues legend B.B. King, who took his music from rural juke joints to the mainstream and inspired generations of guitarists from Eric Clapton to Stevie Ray Vaughan, has died at age 89.
The Israeli parliament narrowly approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government late on Thursday as the United States insisted the Jewish state must forge a deal with the Palestinians for its own good.
The wreckage of a US military helicopter that went missing with eight people on board while delivering aid in quake-hit Nepal has been located near the Chinese border, the Nepalese army said on Friday.
US President Barack Obama assured Arab allies on Thursday that they are safe from the threat of an empowered Teheran as he seeks to shore up some of his country's most critical security partnerships. But Obama's aim of winning Arab support for his nuclear diplomacy appears far from certain.
Britain wants to reach a new settlement with the European Union as fast as possible, according to Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
As federal investigators try to determine why an Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia sped up in the minute before it derailed, Amtrak's top official said the national passenger railroad takes full responsibility for the deadly wreck.
Pele was in stable condition in a hospital on Thursday after undergoing surgery for an enlarged prostate - just the latest health scare for the Brazilian soccer legend.
AC Milan, at the center of takeover uncertainty and with coach Filippo Inzaghi unlikely to survive until next season, can have a hand in the Champions League shakeup when it faces Roma on Saturday.
With Chelsea having sewn up the title, attention in the Premier League this weekend switches to the grim battle for survival and the scrap for European places.
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