Britain's youngest female double murderer has been given a life sentence for killing her father and a woman in separate incidents when she was just 15.
The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned Tuesday that an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book the Quran could endanger U.S. troops in the country and Americans worldwide.
North Korea requested a shipment of rice, cement and heavy equipment days after South Korea offered relief aid to its communist neighbour to help it recover from recent flooding, the Unification Ministry said Tuesday.
An Indonesian volcano shot black ash three miles into the air early Tuesday - its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy.
World Blog: More than 3.5 million people who use London's subway system daily faced chaos Tuesday as a strike left all but one of its 11 Underground lines shut or partly suspended.
Iran's nuclear chief said Tehran has the right to bar some U.N. inspectors from monitoring its disputed nuclear program, the semiofficial Isna news agency reported.
A church planning to burn copies of the Quran on September 11 is 'definitely praying' about the demonstration, its pastor said, after Gen. David Petraeus warned it would put the lives of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in danger.
A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 11 women and children and one officer, the latest in a string of attacks proving that Islamist militants remain a potent force in the country.
