UNITED NATIONS

On Dec. 9, 1947, members of the Dutch armed forces murdered at least 431 men in the village of Rawagede.

South Sudan became the world’s newest republic this past July, following decades of civil war that killed some 1.5 million people, after seceding from Sudan.

Six months after a hotel maid accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape attempt, surveillance camera footages have emerged which the maid's lawyers call further proof against him.

Police are spread out across Kinshasa while 20,000 soldiers are on stand-by at military bases.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Barbara Walters that the crackdown in Syria was not his fault.

The world's three biggest polluters China, the United States and India refused to move toward a new legal commitment to curb their carbon emissions Tuesday, increasing the risk that climate talks will fail to clinch a meaningful deal this week.

U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, returned to Damascus on Tuesday after being removed from the country for his own safety in October.

Angelina Jolie is being sued for allegedly stealing a Croatian Journalist's story in her new film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, according to Radar.com.

Another Hamas MP Mohammad Abu Tei was deported from Jerusalem exactly one year ago.

Susan Lyne, chairman of Gilt Groupe, Inc. and former president of ABC Entertainment, talked about learning from failure and adjusting to digital realities during TheWrap's third-annual Power Women breakfast Monday morning at the Hotel Bel-Air.

Islamic militants al-Shabab detonated a suicide car bomb in the Somali capital on Mogadishu on Tuesday.

The growth rates of all four BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies have surpassed expectations in the decade since the term came into existence. However, India's record in terms of productivity, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and reform has been the most disappointing, according to Jim O'Neil, the Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, on Tuesday.

Outraged by the Kimberly Process' inability to prevent illegal trade in conflict diamonds (also called blood diamonds) in Africa, a key founding member quit the regulatory body on Monday.

Macedonia is symbolically important to Greece since it is the home of legendary heroes like Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great.

Pol Pot's right-hand man, Nuon Chea, the No. 2 leader of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, under whom an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians were killed in the 1970s, on Monday told a court his regime were not bad people, denying responsibility for the deaths, instead placing the blame on Vietnam.

The title of Miss Earth 2011 has been handed to Miss Ecuador, Olga Alava.

Iran's military said on Sunday it had shot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran, a military source told state television.

Iran's Foreign Ministry believes that if the West seriously considered blocking Tehran's ability to export oil, the global price of crude would more than double, Foreign Ministry representative Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying on Sunday.

The U.N.'s climate chief said that she believes countries can snap the deadlock that has lasted for years and sign up to fresh and binding commitments to cut greenhouse gases.

At least two dozen people have died in renewed fighting in the northern part of Syria between security forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and members of the Free Syria Army (FSA), amid fears the country is descending into a state of civil war.

Paris officials went to great pains to explain that this was only a temporary security measure.