International Headlines

Heavy rains unleashed flooding and mudslides in Venezuela that killed at least eight people, including four children, authorities said Friday.

A developer is suing two Spanish-owned hotel groups for allegedly stealing nearly 100 truckloads of sand from a beachfront property in Jamaica.

In further evidence of the ongoing creation of a pirate economy, Kenya's foreign affairs minister says Somali pirates have collected more than $150 million in ransom over the past year, and called on ship owners not to pay when their vessels are hijacked.

For reasons he can't explain, the Japanese man has been in Terminal 1 of the Benito Juarez International Airport since Sept. 2, surviving off donations from fast-food restaurants and passengers and sleeping in a chair.

This ancient land is telling the world that it has a trendy, new replacement for its dreaded poppy crop: sweet, juicy pomegranates.

Police said a bomb killed eight mourners at the funeral of a Shiite cleric gunned down Friday in northwestern Pakistan, fanning sectarian tension as the U.S. shifted consular staff from the region because of rising insecurity.

The U.N. Committee against Torture wants China to apologize to the victims of its Tiananmen Square crackdown. Releasing a report on Friday, the committee says torture is still practiced by Chinese police.

Germany is dropping its pursuit of a ban on Scientology after finding insufficient evidence of illegal activity, security officials said Friday.

World experts try to find a stronger solution to the piracy problem that plagues the Gulf of Aden, a major lifeline for the world economy.

Three former child soldiers from Africa announced the launch of a new U.N.-backed advocacy group Thursday to help other kids escape and heal from war.

Somali pirates who hijacked the Saudi-owned supertanker Sirius Star Thursday demanded $25 million in ransom and set a 10-day deadline.

At least 26 severely malnourished children have died in the past four weeks in the remote region of Baie d'Orange in Haiti's southeast