Daniel Tovrov

North Korea will launch a long-range rocket carrying a satellite into space next month. The earth observation satellite will be set into orbit between April 12 and April 16, which will coincide with the nationwide celebrations for the birth of the country's founder, Kim Il-sung.

Olivier David Och, 31, and Daniela Widmer, 29 -- who appeared at a military check point in North Waziristan on Thursday -- told Pakistani officials that they escaped their Taliban captors.

Just days after the somber one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 16,000 people in 2011, Japan was struck by two new earthquakes.

Belgium is sending military planes to Switzerland to pick up the bodies of the 22 students and six adults killed during a bus crash in the Swiss Alps on Tuesday night.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants local security to have more authority in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the Taliban has suspended peace talks.

British author Salman Rushdie will appear at a conference in New Delhi Friday, less than two months after death threats derailed his last trip to his native India.

Hoping that governmental reform can end a year of violence, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that new, multi-party parliamentary elections will be held on May 7.

For the first time since his arrest in 2009, Iran has admitted publically that Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been convicted of religious crimes.

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron will spend two days together, doing fun things like watching college basketball, but also getting serious and talking about Syria.

Syrian forces are laying landmines on the country's borders to stop refugees from escaping, the Human Rights Watch reported on Tuesday.

The Panhellenic Socialist Movement, or Pasok, will vote Sunday on a replacement for party leader George Papandreou, the former prime minister. Venizelos is the only candidate.

Somali rebel group al-Shabab denied responsibility for the deadly bomb attacks in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday.

On Sunday, many world leaders addressed the anniversary of Fukushima, an event that not only brought tremendous sadness but also a debate on the safety and future of nuclear energy programs.

Nicolas Sarkozy said during a rally on Sunday that France should pull out of the Schengen zone in an effort to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country.

A newly constructed portion of China's high-speed railway collapsed following heavy rain in the central Hubei province.

The Taliban vowed to avenge the deaths of 16 civilians killed in southern Afghanistan during a shocking shooting spree perpetrated by an American soldier.

Since it exploded into the American consciousness earlier this week, Invisible Children's methodology has been much scrutinized, but ICC chief Louis Moreno Ocampo has defended has defended the campaign.

French presidential candidate Francois Hollande is visiting Warsaw, Poland as part of a whirlwind political tour ahead of next month's elections, but Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has refused to meet the Socialist party leader.

The United States will hand over the control of all prisons in Afghanistan to Afghan security forces within six months.

Syrian opposition leaders rejected the United Nations' call for a dialog with President Bashar al-Assad's government.

A Briton and an Italian taken hostage by Nigerian rebel group Boko Haram last May were killed during a failed rescue mission on Thursday.

The Kenyan government has fired 25,000 striking health care workers on Thursday, including nurses, lab technicians, and dental assistants. But it is a bluff?

After at least 44 people were killed in Homs on Thursday, Syrian activists said they fear the city is headed toward another massacre.

South Africa apologized on Thursday for the mass deportation of 125 Nigerians after a yellow fever scare.

Osama bin Laden's three widows have been charged with illegally entering and living in Pakistan.

International Women's Day celebrations in 2012 -- a year that has already been permanently marked by social movements, elections and crises -- have taken a political and, in some cases sombre, tone in many countries.

Turkey has proved itself to be Somalia's best friend, and may the only country in the world actively trying to make Somalia a better place.

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council met on Wednesday to draft a new resolution in hopes of ending nearly a year of violence in Syria.

An Indian journalist was arrested on Tuesday as a suspect in last month's bombing of an Israeli diplomat's car in New Delhi.