UC Santa Barbara students attend a candlelight vigil following Friday's series of drive-by shootings that left 7 people dead in the Isla Vista section of Santa Barbara May 24, 2014.
Venezuela's opposition leader said Sunday that he agreed to be a presidential candidate of his coalition and will formalize his candidacy before the National Electoral Council.
A referendum to decide the fate of the Malvinas Islands, known to the British as the Falklands, will not end the territorial dispute between Argentina and Britain.
Six teenagers were killed and two others were injured early Sunday in a fatal car crash in the US state of Ohio, local media reports said.
Venezuela's National Electoral Council announced after a special meeting of its Board of Directors that the presidential elections will be held on April 14.
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro was officially sworn in on Friday as the country's acting president, following the death of President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday.
US prosecutors unsealed an indictment against a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden on Thursday that charged him with conspiracy to kill Americans, after US government sources said he was arrested overseas and brought to New York.
World leaders were to join hundreds of thousands of mourners at a state funeral for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez on Friday, as his political heir vowed to embalm the leftist leader "like Lenin".
The trial of Luka Rocco Magnotta - accused of slaying and dismembering Chinese student Lin Jun in what is regarded as the most significant Canadian crime story in years - begins on Monday in Montreal.
With tears and grief, Venezuelans and 33 heads of states bid farewell to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during the state funeral held Friday in Caracas.
A local high school in the US state of Ohio was placed under lockdown after live ammunition was found inside the school building Friday morning, according to local media.
The new Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel arrived in Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday on an unannounced visit to the war-torn country, his first trip abroad since taking office as US defense secretary a couple of days ago.
Al Qaida spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, on Friday pleaded not guilty of conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals in a New York federal court.
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