International News

Eight journalists have reportedly been kidnapped in a Mexican border city in a two-week span in a wave of abductions unprecedented in the Western Hemisphere.

The search for the black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris has been delayed by weather conditions and trouble getting a search ship to Brazil, officials said Thursday.

Officials say Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has undergone surgery but already has been released from the hospital and is in good health.

A Rome high school has incurred the ire of the Catholic Church after its decision to install condom-vending machines for students.

Greek public transport was halted, flights grounded and state hospitals left with emergency staff only on Thursday as workers walked off the job to protest painful spending cuts the government is making to deal with the country's debt crisis.

Mozambican authorities say about 800 people are trapped by rising floodwaters and in need of rescue.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Iranian support for the Taliban in Afghanistan isn't much of a problem for the United States, yet.

The NATO force in Afghanistan says a homemade bomb has killed four children and a civilian adult in a northeastern province.

A decision by Myanmar's military junta to bar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from upcoming elections drew sharp criticism from around the world, with one of the country's Southeast Asian allies Thursday calling it "a complete farce."

Zoo officials say an elephant calf that was believed to have died during a nine-day labor is feeding itself and has earned the nickname "Mr. Shuffles" since learning to stand.