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A suicide car bomber targeted a Shiite funeral procession in the Iraqi capital Friday, killing 31 people and wounding 60 others, two police officials said.

The founder of a French company that makes breast implants linked to a health scare was charged Friday with involuntary injury, his attorney told a CNN television affiliate.

A crooked Somali cop may have been the one who made the kidnapping of two foreign aid workers in October possible, the safety adviser for their employer told CNN.

Nine rockets were fired at the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul Friday about 500 meters from the infamous compound of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Syed Imtiaz, Hussain Shah a senior police official said.

A group of indigenous Australian protesters made headlines for a second day in a row Friday after they gathered outside the Australian Parliament and set fire to the country's flag.

In the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear plant, one man's quiet defiance echoes through the contaminated, empty streets of Tomioka, Japan.

The U.N. Security Council will hold closed-door talks Friday afternoon on the situation in Syria, the British and French delegations reported on their respective Twitter feeds.

The U.N. Security Council will hold closed-door talks Friday afternoon on the situation in Syria, the British and French delegations reported on their respective Twitter feeds.

The head of the Papua New Guinea military has been freed from detention by rebel soldiers, the Australian government said Thursday, as an attempted mutiny appeared to unravel.

Former hostages Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted arrived at a U.S. base in Sicily on Thursday, a day after being rescued during a U.S. military raid in Somalia.