Daniel Tovrov

Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Ivory Coast, appeared before the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands on Monday, making him the first ever head-of-state to do so.

In protest of local government corruption in Uttar Pradesh, India, a snake charmer released 40 poisonous snakes inside a tax office.

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon defended his controversial and violent offensive against drug cartels, a war that has cost the country nearly 50,000 lives since he was elected in 2006.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his United Russia Party's grip on Russian politics weakened after a State Duma (lower house of parliament) vote on Sunday.

Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej greeted his subjects from the balcony of the Grand Palace in Bangkok on Monday as part of his 84th birthday celebration.

A drought in northern Mexico has dried up drinking water for nearly 2.5 million people and dessicated millions of acres of farmland.

Thaksin Shinawatra, the former-Prime Minister of Thailand who was overthrown in a 2006 coup and went into self-imposed exile in Dubai, could soon be getting his passport back.

Hilary Clinton is in Burma (Myanmar) meeting with ruling and opposition leaders in an effort to promote democracy.

Two pastors in Nigeria claimed they were raped by prostitutes when on a mission to a popular brothel.

Boko Haram, Nigeria's militant Islamic insurgency, is now an emerging threat to the United States, a new congressional report says.

Egypt has gone to polls and overwhelmingly voiced its support for the Muslim Brotherhood. What does that mean for the country's political and social future?

The fallout from Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program continues, with the European Union imposing new economic sanctions against 180 Iranian officials and companies.

New satellite images of Iran show just how serious the explosion at a military base on Nov. 12 really was.

Same-sex marriages and homosexual activities were officially banned by the senate in Nigeria on Tuesday, placing criminal penalties of up to 14 years in prison on same-sex relationships.

British diplomats left Iran on Wednesday, a day after the embassy in Tehran was stormed by protestors.

Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of deceased Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, might need to have one or more fingers amputated.

Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday as U.S. troops prepare for a complete withdrawal from the country.

In Northern Kosovo, ethnic Serbs went to battle with NATO and Kosovo Force peacekeepers

Colombian drug lord Maximiliano Bonilla-Orozco, who headed the Medellin-based cartel Oficina de Envigado, was captured in Argentina on Monday with help from Interpol.

Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik was and is insane, two psychiatrists told the Oslo District Court on Tuesday.

Iran continues to tell Israel and the United States that any attack will have dire consequences on Zionist regimes.

Rebel group al-Shabab raided a number of humanitarian organizations in Somalia on Monday, adding a militant exclamation point to their new ban on 16 aid agencies working in the famine-stricken country.

The latest Arab Spring news from Morocco, Syria, Kuwait, Yemen and Egypt.

Yemen's transitional president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi named opposition leader Mohammed Basindwa the country's new prime minister on Sunday.

Egyptians weathered a unexpected rainstorm and lines sometimes eight hours long to cast their vote in the first parliamentary elections since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.

Half of all Americans think that bombing Iran is necessary to stop the country's burgeoning nuclear weapons program if sanctions fail, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. And 60 percent of Americans think that economic sanctions will fail.

Judge William Adams -- the family court-at-law judge from Aransas County, Texas who was caught on video beating his daughter with a belt -- has been suspended with pay by the Texas Supreme Court.

George Clooney and Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo will testify in Silvio Berlusconi's prostitution trial.

Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen star in David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, a film that shows how psychoanalysts