Saudi Arabia rejects seat on U.N. Security Council

Kingdom says it can't accept position at table of body blocked from serious action on Syria by "double standards"

• Oct 18, 2013

Newly found ancient skull could rewrite human history

Discovered in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, a 1.8 million-year-old skull may be the missing link that ties all of humanity together

• Oct 18, 2013

Australia wildfires kill 1, char hundreds of sq. miles

Weather changing for the better, but 28 firs still burning out of control after dry winter, hot spring lend perfect conditions

• Oct 18, 2013

Libya: Gunmen shoot down Benghazi's top cop

Head of regional military police in Libyan port city dies as he was heading to mosque for Friday prayers

• Oct 18, 2013

Cuba's small businesses threatened

New law banning the private sale of imported goods could hamper the livelihoods of Cuba's entrepreneurs

• Oct 18, 2013
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Discharge Marine captain in urination case, panel says

Officer faces forcible discharge after Marine snipers appeared in YouTube video urinating on bodies of Taliban fighters

• Oct 18, 2013

U.S. Embassy in Uganda on alert for possible terror attack

The U.S. embassy in Uganda's capital says it's on alert for the possibility of a similar-style massacre that killed 60 in a Kenyan mall

• Oct 18, 2013

India arrests 35 from U.S. security contractor's ship

Washington D.C.-based anti-piracy contractor AdvanFort says cache of weapons on vessel licensed, but crew, hired guns now facing charges

• Oct 18, 2013

Suicide bomber targets Iraq Shiites

Sectarian violence rages 10 years after U.S. invasion, as al Qaeda's regional branch steps up attacks

• Oct 18, 2013

Newly released security video shows horror of Kenya mall attack

Terrorists coolly execute wounded man, panicked shoppers run and crawl for cover in chilling images

• Oct 18, 2013

Snowden: No classified documents taken to Russia

In an interview with The New York Times, former NSA analyst said he handed over all the documents he had obtained to journalists during his stay in Hong Kong

• Oct 17, 2013

Family of Nazi criminal searches for missing body

The family of Erich Priebke, a former SS captain who died at age 100 on Friday, said it doesn't know where his body is

• Oct 17, 2013

4 guilty in Chile gay murder that led to hate law

Daniel Zamudio's slaying set off a national debate about hate crimes in Chile that led to the passage of an anti-discrimination law

• Oct 17, 2013

Migrants risk their lives to reach Italian island

Hundreds die on dangerous journey to Lampedusa, and yet desperate people keep coming

• Oct 17, 2013

The secrets behind the songs of humpback whales

On assignment for "60 Minutes," Scott Pelley went to the Cook Islands to tell one of the great success stories in all of conservation

• Oct 17, 2013

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