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The bombing in Charsadda city was the third attack in as many days in or close to Peshawar , the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.

French Foreign Legionnaires leave combat outpost near Kabul on Monday. President Obama A is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan , though not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there.

Navy ships of the two Koreas exchanged fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, South Korean military officers said.

A Brazilian woman whose short, pink dress caused a near riot at a private college and led to her expulsion will be allowed to return to class.

Nov. 9 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, joined thousands of others to walk across a former checkpoint in celebration of 20 years since the wall's collapse SOUNDBITE: GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL MUS, ONLOOKER FROM THE NETHERLANDS Georgina Cooper, Reuters No videos currently selected.

A pro-rape Facebook page, set up by a group of past and present elite Australian college students, has been taken down, but still ran from early August until late October, authorities say.

No fewer than 32 children have been killed over the past three years while working in Gaza arms smuggling tunnels, according to a new report released in the Palestinian Authority.

The report, prepared by an organization called the Palestinian National Society for Democracy and Law, was released on Saturday. It deals with the child abuse perpetrated on child laborers in the tunnels used to smuggle weapons, arms and other items from Egypt into Gaza.

With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification.

The U.S. military says two American pilots have died in a helicopter crash in Iraq.

Gordon Brown is to join other world leaders in Germany for the celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Three days of heavy rains in El Salvador touched off floods and slides that have killed at least 91 people, the government said Sunday.

Turkey said Sunday that Sudan's internationally indicted leader, President Omar al-Bashir, will not attend a conference of Muslim nations in Istanbul.

Britain's Defence Ministry says a British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan.

Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but they failed to reach a clear agreement to bear the cost of fighting climate change.

Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.

Shimon Peres spoke to a crowd of thousands at the square where Rabin was gunned down by a Jewish extremist who opposed his peace policies on Nov.

A Somalian man has been stoned to death after being convicted of adultery. His pregnant girlfriend has been spared. However, that mercy will only last until she gives birth.

Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders -- and tattoos -- exposed.

Nov. 7 - A Mexican mother has been reunited with her one-year-old daughter after the baby girl was allegedly sold to another woman by a baby-selling ring in Mexico City.

A mother who died in a house fire after apparently pushing her teenage son to safety through a window may have been killed after a firework was posted through her letterbox, investigators said.