Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki edged ahead Sunday in a tight race in the country's parliamentary elections after partial results from all of Iraq's 18 provinces showed his bloc leading in seven -- two more than his chief rival.
A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.
Rio de Janeiro's most famous monument, the Christ the Redeemer statue, is undergoing renovation work this year, aimed at protecting it from environmental damage, like rain and lightning.
Deadly bomb attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar were a warning to NATO's top general that the Taliban are ready for a coming offensive in their heartland, the insurgents said Sunday.
Two Americans, a U.S. consulate employee and her husband, were killed in a drive-by shooting in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican border city wracked by drug violence.
Cities across Chile were without power on Sunday and output at some mines disrupted after a main power grid failed a fortnight after a massive earthquake killed hundreds and ravaged infrastructure.
Though Haiti was foreign to members of a Tennessee church, they fell in love with the girls of Coq Chante orphanage. Then January's earthquake sent tremors all the way to Knoxville.
