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Egyptians clashed with police, leaving two dead in the city of Suez and at least 900 injured near the Interior Ministry headquarters in Cairo, officials said Friday.

The supreme leader of Iran issued a blunt warning Friday that war would be detrimental to the United States.

Two American tourists have been kidnapped in the southern part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, a security official said Friday.

Some 246 survivors have been rescued in the aftermath the sinking of a passenger ferry off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, authorities said Friday.

The loose organization of hackers known as Anonymous released a recording Friday of a telephone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard that it claims to have recorded surreptitiously.

Gay rights advocates in South Africa hailed a judge's sentencing of four men to 18 years each in prison for brutally slaying a 19-year-old lesbian.

The search of underwater areas of the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia has been suspended for safety reasons, the head of Italy's civil protection agency said Thursday.

The United States accused Sudan of targeting civilians in recent airstrikes, including one that destroyed a Bible school in South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly-created independent country of South Sudan.

Images beamed around the world last week of unruly and provocative protests by indigenous Australians projected a portrait of an angry and disenfranchised group.

Horrified eyewitnesses describe how Egyptian police officers stood by Wednesday as violent clashes between rival soccer fans left scores dead in the northeastern city of Port Said.