Afghan authorities say one person has been killed and six hurt in a clash between Sunni and Shiite students at Kabul University. NATO says a service member with the international military coalition was killed today in an insurgent attack in the south.
Leading democracy advocate Mohammed ElBaradei says dialogue with Egypt's Islamist president is not possible until he rescinds his decrees giving himself near absolute powers.
About 10,000 socialist protesters have marched through Dublin in opposition to government plans to unveil Ireland's sixth straight austerity budget next month.
The U.N. Committee Against Torture is strongly criticizing Russia for failing to investigate widespread allegations of torture and increasing intimidation and reprisals against human rights advocates and journalists.
Hundreds of migrants have been stuck for three days along railway tracks in southern Mexico because the freight train they usually ride toward the U.S. border caught fire.
A report by a union of Somali journalists is urging the new Somali government to end the impunity which it says has contributed to making Somalia one of the most dangerous countries to practice journalism.
Opponents of President Mohammed Morsi have set fire to offices of his Muslim Brotherhood in several Egyptian cities, clashing with his supporters after the Islamist leader assumed sweeping new powers.
Ireland's police force says its officers have arrested 113 suspected drug dealers and seized five marijuana growing facilities in the nation's biggest-ever crackdown on triad drug-trafficking gangs.
An official says the U.S. secretary of state has retuned to Jerusalem for another round of meetings with Israeli leaders as she tries to wring an elusive truce deal over the Israel-Hamas fighting.
Eduard Mochalov, a farmer who tried to bring justice for his stolen cattle and pigs, spent eight months in jail. He even set himself on fire in protest, but still could not draw attention to his cause as his farm slowly fell into disrepair.
Former world boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho was shot in the face as he sat in a car outside the Puerto Rican capital Tuesday, and doctors said he was in serious condition but expected to survive.