Mexico's government says it has created a special investigative unit to search for missing people.
Police in the Cayman Islands say a member of Uruguay's Special Olympics swim team has apparently drowned during a competition in the waters off a popular beach.
Chile's small Communist Party on Monday officially announced its support for socialist Michelle Bachelet's candidacy to regain the presidency.
Mali's government says it will hold the country's presidential election on July 28.
Egypt's president sent a bill that would regulate non-governmental organizations to the country's interim parliament on Monday after months of criticism by rights groups concerned about stifling...
President Porfirio Lobo of Honduras says he is backing efforts to arrange a truce between the country's two largest and most violent gangs.
A Catholic mayor in Canada had his prayers answered when an appeals court ruled that saying a prayer before council meetings does not compromise the government body’s neutrality, the Toronto Sun...
Rome's conservative mayor was trailing badly in his re-election bid Monday and appeared headed toward a runoff with a center-left challenger, according to projections and partial vote counting.
Sudanese government troops clashed with rebels in the conflict-wracked state of Southern Kordofan near the border with South Sudan, and each side claimed Monday it inflicted heavy losses on the...
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's press advisers are the latest to leave their jobs as questions swirl about a missing video that purportedly shows the mayor smoking crack cocaine.
A government spokesman says that at least 12 people were killed in clashes between opposition marchers and security forces in Guinea's capital.
African leaders are urging the International Criminal Court to transfer charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to the Kenyan legal system.
Gunmen abducted two South African citizens Monday in Yemen's second largest city, Taiz, and police said a lawmaker was behind the kidnapping to pressure the government to hand over a disputed...
Tourists have long flocked to the home-turned-museum of former President Nelson Mandela on Vilakazi Street, a lively strip of restaurants, curio sellers and street performers in the South African...
Here is a look at the some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the withdrawal of U.S. troops on Dec. 18, 2011: — May 27, 2013: A wave of car bombings tears through mostly Shiite Muslim...