American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan.

Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war, a newspaper reports.

The deadliest accident in China's mining industry for two years has highlighted how heavy demand for power-generating coal comes at a high human cost.

Russian spaceship designer Konstantin Feoktistov, the only non-Communist space traveler in the history of the Soviet space program, has died at the age of 83.

After decades of mistrust and sometimes betrayal, Mexican and U.S. authorities are increasingly setting aside their differences to unite against a common enemy.

Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland's police commander says.

Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 29 people have died, officials said.

Police say three bombs have exploded in India's restive northeast killing five people and wounding more than 25 others.

Egypt's president criticizes Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, telling his Israeli counterpart that settlements in the disputed sector of the holy city threaten to anger the entire Muslim world.

Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting the country's nuclear facilities against any possible attack, state television reported.