With all 33 Chile miners rescued from the San Jose mine, families celebrated the end of 70 exhausting days - and quickly started to strike their camp and pack for home.

Three Nato soldiers have been killed in a bomb explosion in western Afghanistan, a day after six coalition troops died in a number of attacks.

By the CNN Wire Staff Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to visit Lebanon areas bordering northern Israel on Thursday as the Iranian president faces threats by a member of Israel's leadership.

State-run Chinese media on Thursday accused the West of waging "endless ideological wars" against China, which is furious after jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

JERUSALEM - This week, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of Israel gave a dinner for the foreign ministers of France and Spain, who were here urging a West Bank settlement freeze to improve the chance for peace with the Palestinians.

By the CNN Wire Staff Paris, France (CNN) -- A strike to protest government pension reforms is set to extend into a third day Thursday.

Canada was expected to win a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council this week. Instead, the seat went to Portugal, a lovely little country that also happens to be dead broke.

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile - One is a great-grandfather four times over, another a 19-year-old dad. A third - the oldest - is 63, and has spent a half-century working the mines.

Paramilitary policemen stand guard outside the Chinese Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo site in Shanghai October 1, 2010. China celebrates its National Day on Friday.

SEOUL—South Korea complained to Japan over criticism by Japan's finance minister of South Korea's foreign exchange policy, a Korean government official said Thursday.

(RTTNews) - More than 18 Revolutionary guards were killed and 14 others wounded in an explosion Tuesday at a base of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRG) Corps in the Western Iranian province of Lurestan, reported Iran's official news agency IRNA ...

(RTTNews) - Up to nine militants, including four foreigners who hailed from Turkmenistan and members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), are known to have been killed in the latest attack by suspected US drone aircraft in Pakistan's restive ...

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine embassy in Islamabad confirmed that six Filipinos perished in a cargo plane crash in Afghanistan on the morning of October 13 (Kabul time), the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a news release.

Treasury 30-year bonds gained for the first time in a week on speculation a rally in the yen to a 15-year high will increase Japanese demand for US debt.

Some officials urge military action on Pakistani soil to curb the flow of fighters and bomb-making materials into southern Afghanistan.

By the CNN Wire Staff Miami, Florida (CNN) -- The eye of a weakened Hurricane Paula neared Cuba early Thursday, threatening to spread heavy rain across the Caribbean island, forecasters said.

BRUSSELS - NATO defence and foreign ministers meet Thursday to reshape the alliance into a modern force against cyber and missile threats, at a time of tough fighting in Afghanistan and budget cuts at home.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - UN peacekeepers could create limited buffer zones in hotspots along the border of north and south Sudan before a referendum on independence is held in the south of the country, Security Council diplomats ...

AP A Nepalese fruit seller's son with the body of a toddler has turned 18, reaching the big day when he can claim the Guinness record for world's shortest man.

SEOUL - The former chief US negotiator in talks to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons said Wednesday he was less optimistic than ever before about the prospects for a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.