Next step in U.S. reporter's Iran spy trial?

Lawyer says Washington Post's Jason Rezaian will soon be back in court, but pretty much everything else remains a secret

• Jun 2, 2015

Disaster on Chinese river as cruise ship flips over

Frantic effort to reach trapped victims as voices heard from within vessel that overturned in a storm carrying hundreds of elderly tourists

• Jun 2, 2015

South Korea confirms deaths from MERS

The deaths are the first after 24 reported cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

• Jun 1, 2015

Ship with 450 people aboard sinks in China

The small cruise ship sank in the Yangtze River, but so far only eight people have been rescued, according to the Chinese state broadcaster

• Jun 1, 2015

Obama to China: Stop "throwing elbows"

China has been building artificial islands to expand its sovereignty

• Jun 1, 2015

Au revoir "love locks"

Paris officials have taken aim at a popular tradition of "Love locks" on city bridges; removing thousands of the symbolic padlocks for safety reasons

• Jun 1, 2015
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Tanker truck explodes in Nigeria bus station, killing dozens

Victims "burnt beyond recognition," newspaper reports, quoting Anambra state police commissioner

• Jun 1, 2015

U.S. confirms American journalist in Yemen freed

State Department confirms that injured American Casey Coombs, who was held by Houthi rebels, arrived safely in Oman

• Jun 1, 2015

ISIS suicide bombers kill dozens in Iraq's Anbar province

Attack on police base resembles assault launched on Ramadi last month that allowed ISIS militants to capture the city

• Jun 1, 2015

Pakistan transfixed by top model's arrest for alleged money laundering

Since being caught with $506,800 in cash trying to fly to Dubai, Ayaan Ali has become the topic of seemingly endless gossip

• Jun 1, 2015

Vatican official accused of "almost sociopathic" disregard for sex abuse victims

Member of Vatican sex abuse panel calls on Pope Francis to dismiss Cardinal George Pell, the pope's hand-picked finance czar

• Jun 1, 2015

American woman killed in South Africa lion attack

Lion attacked woman who was sitting in vehicle with the window down at Johannesburg park

• Jun 1, 2015

Bangladesh charges dozens over factory collapse

More than 40 people charged with murder over 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza garment factory

• Jun 1, 2015

Nazi death notice prompts apology from Austrian newspaper

Notice carried the deceased's Nazi storm troop rank and a verse associated with the oath of loyalty sworn by Nazi troops to Hitler

• Jun 1, 2015

Body of woman found in suitcase in Tokyo Station locker

"We were surprised and horrified," says train company spokesman after worker makes gruesome discovery

• Jun 1, 2015

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