Washington Post reporter held in Iran allegedly faces "espionage" charges

Fars report alleges that Jason Rezaian obtained economic and industrial information from Iran and sold it to unnamed Americans

• Apr 13, 2015

Grizzly start to Afghanistan's "summer fighting season"

Taliban fighters overrun Afghan army post, and bring a gruesome end to some of the 18 soldiers killed

• Apr 13, 2015

Saudi Arabia: No evidence its agents "directly" helped 9/11 hijackers

Lawyers also urge judge to disregard "colorful" claims by Zacarias Moussaoui about al Qaeda's ties to Saudis

• Apr 13, 2015

U.S. protests "unsafe" intercept of reconnaissance plane by Russia

"Careless actions of a single pilot have the potential to escalate tensions between countries," Pentagon says

• Apr 13, 2015

​German Nobel laureate Guenter Grass dies at age 87

Writer famed for "The Tin Drum" gave voice to a generation that suffered from rise of Nazism and nation's post-war guilt

• Apr 13, 2015

Beauty queen brings light to Japan's racial issues

Ariana Miyamoto, the first biracial Miss Universe Japan, turns heads on the streets, and she's using that attention to change attitudes

• Apr 13, 2015

Yemen leader names vice president in midst of chaos

Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi who left the country as Houthi rebels advanced placed ex-prime minister Khaled Bahah in the new post

• Apr 12, 2015

Jamaican teen arrested in attempt to join ISIS

The 16-year-old was stopped in Suriname after authorities suspected he was trying to get to the middle east to join the militants

• Apr 12, 2015

Iraqi city of Nimrud stood for 3,000 years, until ISIS

One of the world's great archaeological treasures shown being reduced to dust by extremists with bombs and power tools in new video

• Apr 12, 2015

Bombing attacks in Egypt kill and injure multiple people

Casualties from the twin bombings were mostly policemen in northern Sinai

• Apr 12, 2015

Germanwings plane evacuated just before takeoff

A bomb threat caused the aircraft to be cleared by authorities before it left Cologne-Bonn airport

• Apr 12, 2015

Reports: German woman, 65, pregnant with quadruplets

Annegret Raunigk already has 13 kids and seven grandkids; she talks about the moral implications of her artificial insemination

• Apr 13, 2015

Terror scare prompts deadly Kenya stampede

Students mistook several accidental explosions on the campus of the University of Nairobi for a terrorist attack, with some leaping from high windows

• Apr 12, 2015

Al Qaeda in India says U.S. drone killed two leaders

New branch of terror network lashes out at Pakistan's operations against it as it is increasingly overshadowed by ISIS

• Apr 12, 2015

Pope opens Armenian genocide controversy with comment

Politically explosive declaration angers Turkey; "denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding," pontiff says

• Apr 12, 2015

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