ISLAMABAD -- The release of a Christian woman in Pakistan, acquitted eight years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy, was delayed Friday after authorities agreed to bar her from flying abroad following talks with radical Islamists who want her…
DONAJI, Mexico -- After three grueling weeks walking along highways and hitching rides in pickups and flatbed trucks, thousands of Central American migrants traveling in a caravan through southern Mexico learned Friday that they would soon be leapfrogging ahead to…
In this Sept. 27, 2018, photo Graham Morant leaves the Supreme Court in Brisbane. Darren England / AP CANBERRA, Australia -- A self-styled preacher who wanted to claim his wife's life insurance was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in…
Last Updated Nov 2, 2018 3:11 PM EDT TEHRAN, Iran -- As a result of the United States pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, the Trump administration is announcing that all American sanctions on the country that had been lifted will…
ABS, Yemen -- Yahia Hussein has already lost a 5-month-old son who wasted away and died as they fled their village in northern Yemen. Now living in a camp for the displaced, he is running out of ways to feed…
Last Updated Nov 2, 2018 8:48 AM EDT BEIJING -- Police say a brawl between a passenger and a bus driver led to the bus plunging off a bridge in southwestern China Sunday. All 15 people on board are presumed…
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- New details about the crashed Lion Air jet's previous flight cast more doubt on the Indonesian airline's claim to have fixed technical problems, as hundreds of personnel searched the sea for a fifth day Friday for victims…
File photo: Indonesia President Joko Widodo talks to Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir at presidential palace in Bogor, Indonesia, October 22, 2018. REUTERS Jakarta has filed an official protest with Saudi Arabia after the oil-rich kingdom executed…
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia aims to remove all asylum seeker children from Nauru within two months as concerns escalate about their deteriorating health after languishing on the tiny Pacific atoll nation for up to five years. Cabinet ministers said Thursday,…
The Earth's oceans have absorbed more heat than previously believed, according to a study published this week in Nature, a scientific journal. Researchers found that the oceans absorbed 60 percent more each year between 1991 and 2016 than was thought. "Imagine…
JOHANNESBURG — As migration rises worldwide, so has its toll: The tens of thousands of people who die or simply disappear during their journeys. Barely counted in life, these migrants rarely register in death — almost as if they never lived…
Divers leave to make a dive at a search area for Lion Air flight in waters off Indonesia on October 31, 2018 EDGAR SU / REUTERS Last Updated Nov 1, 2018 2:48 AM EDT JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Divers on Thursday…
Last Updated Oct 31, 2018 3:13 PM EDT Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was "strangled" as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and his body was then "cut into pieces" under a "premeditated plan," Turkey's chief prosecutor said in…
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A massive search effort has identified the possible seabed location of the crashed Lion Air jet, Indonesia's military chief said Wednesday, as Indonesian TV broadcast a smartphone video of passengers boarding Flight 610, its mundane details transformed…
KEVADIYA, India -- India's prime minister on Wednesday unveiled a towering bronze statue of Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, a key independence leader and the country's first home minister after British colonialists left in 1947. At 597 feet, it is reportedly the…
VATICAN CITY -- Lawyers for the family of a 15-year-old girl who went missing in 1983 say they are pressing Italian prosecutors and the Vatican for more details regarding human bones found near the Holy See's embassy in Rome. Laura…
Pakistani police officers stand guard outside nation's supreme court, in Islamabad, on October 31, 2018; the court acquitted a Christian woman who'd been on death row since 2010 for insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad; the court ordered authorities to free Asia…
Jo Morgan speaks with the media after surviving an avalanche on a New Zealand mountain. WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A well-known adventurer dug herself out of an avalanche on a New Zealand mountain Wednesday morning, while two guides climbing with…
Last Updated Oct 30, 2018 9:38 PM EDT They say an elephant never forgets, and those at Elephants World in Thailand will certainly never forget Paul Barton. Barton is the man who introduced these elephants to classical music. Barton is…
A mother was sentenced to jail Monday after killing her alleged rapist and dragging his body with a car, reports CBS News partner Network Ten in Australia. Roxanne Eka Peters, 35, faces nine years in prison for manslaughter and an additional…
Last Updated Oct 30, 2018 3:10 PM EDT MILAN — Three-quarters of the lagoon city of Venice was under water Monday as large swathes of Italy continued to be battered by severe storms. At least 11 people were killed across…
Last Updated Oct 31, 2018 2:17 AM EDT A team searching for Indonesia's Lion Air Flight JT610 heard a "pinging sound" late Tuesday, indicating they may have found the doomed airliner's fuselage on the seabed off Jakarta's coast. The Boeing…
Hatice Cengiz, fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is seen during an interview with Reuters in London, Britain, October 29, 2018. REUTERS Last Updated Oct 30, 2018 2:07 PM EDT ISTANBUL -- The Turkish fiancee of Jamal Khashoggi called on…
Searchers in Indonesia are continuing their efforts to recover the black boxes from Lion Air Flight JT610 as new details emerge of problems on its previous flight. The black box data could reveal the plane's last moments before it plunged…