Raise your glasses, it's Oktoberfest!

World's largest beer fest kicks off in Munich

• Sep 23, 2013
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3rd day of Kenya mall siege brings gunfire, new threat

Al Qaeda-linked terror group threatens to kill remaining hostages if force used to end standoff which has left dozens dead

• Sep 23, 2013

Al-Shabab threat creeps out of Somalia

Special correspondent John Miller on the implications of a foreign attack by a group which had seemed focused on its own neighborhood

• Sep 23, 2013

Assad: Rebels could block access to chemical weapons

Syrian leader says his gov't will allow international experts to reach sites across war-torn nation, but says "gunmen" may stand in way

• Sep 23, 2013

1.4 tons of cocaine found on flight into Paris

Venezuela arrests 3 National Guard members for alleged link to 3 dozen unlabeled suitcases full of cocaine

• Sep 23, 2013

2 NATO troops killed; Afghan intel official assassinated

Bucharest says the troops were Romanian; district intelligence chief was riding motorcycle to work when gunmen attacked

• Sep 23, 2013

Death toll hits 81 in attack on Pakistan's Christians

Minority Christians protest deadliest attack aimed at them to date in predominantly Muslim nation

• Sep 23, 2013

Snake grounds jet with 370 passengers in Sydney

Qantas said in a statement the 8-inch snake was found by staff in the passenger cabin near the door before passengers were due to board

• Sep 22, 2013

Powerful typhoon strikes southern China; 21 dead

Typhoon forced hundreds of flight cancellations, shut down shipping and put a nuclear power plant on alert

• Sep 22, 2013

Kenya: Fate of mall hostages unclear

Said earlier most had been rescued; military launches major operation to end standoff; 68 people killed so far

• Sep 22, 2013

Teams dig in mud, rain for dead in Mexico slide

Mexican army's emergency response and rescue team recovered a total of five bodies as of Sunday

• Sep 22, 2013

German Chancellor Merkel wins 3rd term

Merkel's conservatives won, but her center-right coalition partners face ejection for the first time in post-World War II history

• Sep 22, 2013

U.S. Navy helicopter crashes in Red Sea; 2 crew missing

An MH-60S Knighthawk went down in the central Red Sea while operating with the destroyer USS William P. Lawrence

• Sep 22, 2013

Kenya mall hostage standoff continues; 68 dead so far

Al Qaeda-linked militants holed up in upscale mall in Nairobi, shooting at police; Kenyan president's nephew and fiance killed

• Sep 22, 2013

Mortar rounds land in Russian embassy in Syria

Russia's foreign ministry said three workers injured in rebel mortar attack; diplomatic wrangling over Syria's chemical arms continues

• Sep 22, 2013

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