The number of homes destroyed by a Colorado wildfire rose above 500 on Tuesday as rain dampened the flames and allowed damage assessment teams to enter charred neighborhoods, and other threatening blazes grew in Alaska and elsewhere in the West. [caption id="attachment_31372" align="alignnone" width="450"]...

Iranian president-elect Hassan Rohani, who won a landslide victory promising better relations abroad and more freedom at home, on Sunday paid his first visit since the vote to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who will ultimately decide the pace of any change. [caption id="attachment_31343" align="alignright" width="390"]...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said he would consider holding a referendum on plans to redevelop an Istanbul park that have sparked nationwide protests, in his first major concession in nearly two weeks of anti-government unrest. [caption id="attachment_31266" align="alignnone" width="590"]...

A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Texas from Los Angeles with 143 passengers aboard was forced to land in Phoenix on Monday after a telephoned bomb threat and U.S. fighter jets were diverted to monitor the situation, authorities said. [caption id="attachment_31228" align="alignnone" width="570"]...

U.S. officials say the Obama administration could decide this week to approve lethal aid for Syria's rebels. The administration will also weigh the merits of a less likely move to send in U.S. airpower to enforce a no-fly zone in Syria. [caption id="attachment_31215" align="alignleft" width="281"]...

Militants launched a suicide attack on Kabul shortly after dawn on Monday, police said, with loud explosions and gunfire heard near the Afghan capital's airport. [caption id="attachment_31184" align="alignright" width="192"] Kabul Airport Attack[/caption] Several blasts ...

Paris Jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of late pop star Michael Jackson, was rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital on Wednesday after an apparent suicide attempt, her mother said, but her family later reported she is "physically fine." [caption id="attachment_31179" align="alignright" width="302"]...

Zargham Raza, First Secretary Pakistan’s High Commission in New Delhi, was allegedly assaulted by unknown persons here on Monday. [caption id="attachment_31101" align="alignnone" width="590"] New Delhi[/caption] According to media reports, Raza was on his way to a local ...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will go back to the scene of her coronation on Tuesday to mark a reign that has weathered six decades of social transformation and the end of her country's global empire. [caption id="attachment_31092" align="alignright" width="270"]...

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was forced to make an emergency landing in a mountainous region north of Tehran on Sunday but no one on board was hurt, the president's website said. [caption id="attachment_31068" align="alignnone" width="450"] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad[/caption]...