Scores of police officers have been killed during attacks in Nasarawa state in central Nigeria, the Nigerian Police High Command said Thursday.

President Park Geun-hye of South Korea has dismissed her press spokesman after concluding that he was involved in an "unsavory incident" during a state visit to the United States, her office said.

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt waited until closing arguments to speak in his own defense in his genocide trial in Guatemala City on Thursday.

Leading Republicans say Benghazi investigation is legitimate congressional oversight. Most Democrats say it's partisan politics? Truth is, it is both.

Friends and fellow sailors mourned double Olympic medalist Andrew "Bart" Simpson after the shocking news that he had died in San Francisco Bay while training for the America's Cup.

A son of a former Pakistani prime minister was kidnapped Thursday in a deadly raid two days before the son was to stand for provincial assembly elections, one of his brothers told CNN

Rescue crews scoured the waters off Australia's eastern coast Friday for two cruise ship passengers who are believed to have fallen overboard.

More than two weeks after a nine-story building collapsed in Bangladesh, a woman was found in the rubble. "I'm alive," she told work crews. "Please rescue me."

Martha Ryan couldn't believe it. She had never heard of women who were pregnant and homeless. But in one night, she met three.

CNN got an exclusive look as African Union security forces hunt for pirates in the waters off Somalia.

A decision by world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking not to attend a conference in Israel in support of an academic boycott of the country has sparked controversy in Israel and a vitriolic debate online.

A team of scientists say they may have discovered part of a "lost continent" deep in the Atlantic off of Brazil.

A team of scientists say they may have discovered part of a "lost continent" deep in the Atlantic off of Brazil.

One of few women to run a Fortune 500 company, CEO and Chairman Ellen Kullman reflects on her career and personal life.

As Arwa Al-Hujaili begins her legal career, she has not only her own expectations to live up to, but those of a generation: she has just become Saudi Arabia's first female lawyer.

If Facebook is the ultimate popularity test, then the most famous art institute on the planet is not in Paris, New York or London.

Ramiz Rafizadeh was driving past Syria's famous Ummayad Mosque in December when another vehicle abruptly cut him off.

Ugandan midwife Esther Madudu has been chosen by AMREF to front its "Stand Up For African Mothers" campaign, an initiative aiming to train an additional 15,000 midwifes by 2015.

Prince Harry's last visit to the United States, in August 2012, did not end well, after photographs of him romping naked around a Las Vegas hotel suite were published worldwide -- just weeks before he began his tour of duty in Afghanistan.

Zambian police rearrested two men this week on charges of engaging in homosexual acts "against the order of nature," a rights group said.