French gangster Redoine Faid, the subject of an international manhunt after his brazen escape from a prison last month, is back in custody, the country's interior ministry said Wednesday.

Denise Garrido was crowned Miss Universe Canada over the weekend. The next day, the pageant organizers said there had been a typo. The crown actually was won by Riza Santos. was crowned Miss Universe Canada over the weekend. The next day, the pageant organizers said there had been a typo. The crown actually was won by Riza Santos.

The Pakistan Taliban's No. 2 leader was killed in a drone strike Wednesday in the country's tribal region, a local tribal official and an intelligence official confirmed to CNN.

Feng Xaiofeng moves down an alleyway toward her home in Wuli, an ordinary village in eastern China's Zhejiang province, with an extraordinary problem.

The French city of Montpellier will witness history Wednesday when its mayor officiates the nation's first same-sex wedding in front of hundreds of guests.

One of the suspects in last week's slaying of a British soldier was discharged from a hospital Tuesday and is now in custody at a police station in south London, Metropolitan Police said.

Police in France arrested a 22-year-old man Wednesday in connection with the weekend stabbing of a soldier in a business district of Paris, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.

The mother of a newborn rescued over the weekend from a toilet pipe in China "deeply regrets what she did," police said Tuesday. But she told police she never expected for the baby to end up in the toilet.

For two years, Syria's rebels have begged the international community to supply them with the weapons they say they need to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. But now that Europe has lifted an arms embargo, is it too late to make a difference?

A Nepalese girl has her sights on a medical career because of her mother's blindness. CNN's Fredricka Whitfield reports.

With only days to go before the UN High Level Panel puts forward its recommendations on development goals beyond 2015, after the current Millennium Development Goals expire, progress towards gender equality and increased empowerment of women hangs in the balance. It is vital that this issue does not slip down the global agenda but retains its rightful position as one of the key, stand-alone development goals.

Hackers using a server in China stole the blueprints for the new headquarters of Australia's main spy agency "some time ago," an opposition senator said Wednesday, contradicting comments by the country's prime minister.

A bombing and a shooting left eight dead in Iraq Tuesday, the latest violence in a country beset by sectarian and political tension.

Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo will appear in a New York court Tuesday to answer to charges that he laundered $70 million through U.S. banks while in power.

Two U.S. officials who work at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, were wounded in a shooting at a nightclub early Tuesday, a hospital official said.

Honduras, the country with the world's highest murder rate, is backing proposed talks between its two most violent gangs in search of a truce.

A skateboard may have saved a man from being the lunch of a hungry cougar in a Canadian resort town last week.

For the second time in five months, Timbuktu's treasured collection of ancient manuscripts is under threat.

In this era of ever-accelerating technological development, we all tend to be so fixated on the gizmos of the future that we rarely take the time to think about the glorious technology of the past.