A huge explosion occurred near the main gate of NATO headquarters in the Afghan capital on Saturday, a heavily guarded area near the U.S. embassy and presidential palace.

The streets of the western city of Pune were half-empty, schools in Mumbai were ordered closed, and people suffering aches flooded hospitals across the country as India confronted dueling outbreaks…

Four Honduran consular officials have been removed from their posts for refusing to declare loyalty to the ousted government of Manuel Zelaya or for supporting the man who replaced him,…

The crew of two Egyptian fishing vessels overpowered Somali pirates after being held hostage for four months and, with machetes and tools, killed at least two pirates before sailing to…

More than 600 children have been sickened with lead poisoning in a northern Chinese province where authorities shut a smelter earlier this week thought to have caused the contamination, state…

US Senator Jim Webb, the first member of Congress to visit Myanmar in more than a decade, arrived in the military-ruled country's remote capital Friday to meet authorities including leader…

A group of former reformist lawmakers appealed to a powerful clerical body in Iran to investigate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's qualification to rule in an unprecedented challenge to the…

Malaysia's health ministry says five more people infected with swine flu have died, raising the number of fatalities related to the virus in the country to 56.