Daniel Tovrov

Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has been appointed to India's upper house of parliament, making him the latest addition to the lineage of athletes who became politicians.

Yemeni government soldiers and local militiamen killed eight al Qaeda militants near Lawdar.

Keeping up an old tradition, Germany has threatened to boycott the upcoming Euro 2012 soccer tournament in protest of the imprisonment and alleged mistreatment of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

Islamist rebel group Boko Haram unleashed another wave of terror in Nigeria over the weekend, attacking police officers in Taraba and opening fire on a university church service.

After weeks of back-and-forth violence, Sudan declared a state of emergency along its border with South Sudan on Sunday, renewing fears that the two nations are again headed towards war.

Disgraced former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn believes that the scandal that brought an end to his political career could have been a plot to keep him out of the French presidential elections.

Tens of thousands of protestors will march in Malaysia on Saturday to demand election reforms.

For the second straight Friday, Egyptian Islamists rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square to protect the revolution that brought an end to Hosni Mubarak.

A series of at least four explosions shook the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk on Friday afternoon, injuring at least two dozen people in what authorities now suspect are terrorist attacks.

Osama bin Laden's three widows will arrive in his home country of Saudi Arabia on Friday after being deported from Pakistan earlier in the day.

West-African regional bloc ECOWAS will send troops Mali and Guinea-Bissau to try to pressure their new juntas to reinstate civilian rule.

The Arab League condemned South Sudan's military aggression in the oil town of Heglig on Thursday.

At least six people were killed in Nigeria on Thursday morning when suspected members of the Boko Haram rebel group attacked offices of ThisDay Newspapers.

The final list of Egyptian presidential candidates was announced on Thursday, and 13 men will face off in the first free presidential elections in the country in decades.

Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity including murder, rape, terrorism and conscripting child soldiers by an international court on Thursday.

Jordan has begun training former Libyan rebels who fought against Moammar Gadhafi as policemen as part of a program to strengthen relations between the two countries.

Donald Trump fears that a wind farm off the shores of Scotland would harm the country's tourism industry ... and also his $1.2 billion golf course.

Echoing the anchor babies argument heard here in the United States, Hong Kong's Chief Executive-elect Leung Chun-ying has proposed a zero quota policy that will prevent Chinese women from crossing into Hong Kong to give birth.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who trails candidate Francois Hollande in France's presidential elections, said that he will not make a deal with the far-right National Front party.

The minute we shook hands and said 'hello,' we knew were in the same club.

The African Union has given Sudan and South Sudan an ultimatum in hopes of preventing a new war between the neighboring nations.

Ahmed Shafiq has been disqualified from Egypt's upcoming president elections because of his former position in the Hosni Mubarak regime.

The Philippines wants to develop a natural gas field in a disputed area of the South China Sea that is also claimed by China.

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven year prison sentence on an abuse of office conviction, went on a hunger strike to protest the “concentration camp of violence and lawlessness” created in her country by current president President Viktor Yanukovych.

The International Criminal Court may investigate possible war crimes -- including rape and the conscription of child soldiers -- in Mali committed since political violence erupted there in January.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said on Tuesday that Sudan has declared war on his country.

At this point, the question of whether a new war between Sudan and South Sudan has started is a matter of semantics, not facts. The real question now is who will win?

On Monday, day six of the terrorism and murder trial, Breivik said questions about his sanity are part of a racist plot to discredit his anti-Muslim, anti-Immigration beliefs.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his cabinet resigned on Monday after talks on new austerity package failed.