MEXICO CITY -- Two masked gunmen stormed into a gym yelling "everyone hit the floor" and opened fire, killing four people in a tough Mexico City neighborhood that is home to the area's...
MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin offered on Friday to send Russian troops to the Golan Heights to replace the Austrians who are withdrawing from the U.N. peacekeeping force that monitors the disengagement of Israeli and Syrian forces.
LONDON -- Before this week, the Guardian newspaper's gradual move into the U.S. -- hiring dozens of employees in the last two years -- hadn't produced much of a splash in terms of scoops.
BAGHDAD -- Suicide attackers rammed car bombs on Friday into a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims and a police checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing 19 people in all, in the latest bout of violence to rattle Iraq.
CAIRO -- Egypt's embattled president on Friday dismissed calls for early presidential elections as clashes erupted in a northern Egyptian city and unidentified assailants torched a Cairo campaign headquarters of a youth group petitioning for Mohammed Morsi's removal from office.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- News that the U.S. government has been snooping on Internet users worldwide came as little surprise to global netizens, who said Friday they have few expectations of online privacy as governments increasingly monitor people's digital lives, often with Internet companies' acquiescence.
NEW DELHI -- Police say a bus in northern India has rolled nearly 150 meters (500 feet) down a gorge, killing 18 people and injuring 14.
MEXICO CITY -- Two gunmen stormed into a gym and killed four people in a tough Mexico City neighborhood that is home to the area's biggest black market, authorities said Thursday.
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi officials say a suicide car bomb attack has killed eight Iranian pilgrims and wounded 25 others north of Baghdad.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Georgia's defense minister visited his troops in Afghanistan on Friday, a day after seven Georgian soldiers died in a huge truck bomb blast at their base, cutting short an official trip to Brussels.
BEIJING -- China's workplace safety agency said negligence among factory managers and government inspectors caused "extremely chaotic" work-safety conditions at a poultry plant where a deadly fire killed 120 workers this week.
BEIRUT -- Activists say rebels have attacked an air base in northern Syria but failed to capture it.
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A resident of a Somali town says that al-Qaida-linked militants have killed two men by firing squad for allegedly spying for the Somali government and the African Union military force.
TOKYO -- Japan and France agreed Friday to deepen their cooperation on nuclear technology and to discuss joint development of military equipment, vowing to raise the tenor of their partnership.
BERLIN -- Water levels in southern Germany have largely stabilized following massive flooding as the crest of swollen rivers has moved north, but many communities remain under water.
CAIRO -- Egypt's embattled president is dismissing opposition calls for early presidential elections in a show of confidence ahead of his first anniversary in office.
SEOUL, South Korea -- The rival Koreas on Friday traded counterproposals over where to meet for talks Sunday, as mutual interest in mending abysmal ties clashed with mistrust stemming from years of animosity and hard-line stances.
NEW DELHI -- A court in northern India has sent three men arrested on suspicion of gang-raping an American woman this week to prison while police investigate.
BERLIN -- Three topless Femen protesters were dragged by police from outside the German chancellery where they were pleading for Angela Merkel to push for the release of four fellow activists jailed in Tunisia.
SAVAR, Bangladesh -- A 19-year-old seamstress who survived for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed garment factory building left the hospital Thursday with a new job at an international hotel chain.