Pope Benedict XVI's unprecedented letter to Ireland apologizing for chronic child abuse within the Catholic Church fails to calm the anger of many victims.

The number of U.S. citizens killed in Mexico has more than doubled to 79 in 2009 from 35 in 2007, according to the U.S. State Department.

Authorities evacuated hundreds of people after a volcano erupted beside a glacier in southern Iceland, Iceland's civil protection agency says.

Thousands rally across Russia to denounce government economic policy and demand more freedom in a new challenge to the Kremlin reflecting increasing disillusionment.

Visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon says  that Israeli settlement building anywhere on occupied land is illegal, while a Palestinian teenager is killed in clashes with Israeli troops elsewhere in the West Bank.

Explosions rumble through Marjah daily — an ominous sign that Taliban insurgents have not given up despite losing control of the town to U.S. and Afghan forces about two weeks ago.

China's capital woke up to orange-tinted skies Saturday as the strongest sandstorm so far this year hit the country’s north, making breathing the air “very bad for health.”