Most of the websites shut down by a hackers group were up and running early Friday, including the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and some entertainment sites after one of the federal government's largest anti-piracy crackdowns.
Until about four years ago, farmer Zhou Jie and his family had been living in rural Anhui province, growing grain and other staples on a small plot of land.
The fact-finding mission of Arab League monitors in Syria comes to an end Thursday, with its members due to report over the weekend on what they have witnessed of a months-long government crackdown on protests.
Rescuers resumed work aboard of the wreck of the cruise liner Costa Concordia Thursday, the Italian Navy said, as a decision loomed about when and if to call off the search for survivors.
Thousands marched silently on a bitterly cold day through downtown Istanbul Thursday to commemorate the five year anniversary of the murder of an ethnic Armenian journalist.
U.S. sailors aboard a guided-missile destroyer aided the crew of a sinking Iranian fishing vessel in the Arabian Sea, the U.S. Navy said Thursday.
Pakistan's prime minister was called before the supreme court on Thursday in a battle over corruption cases facing the president and other officials.
Mexico's not the only country south of the U.S. border with a growing drug problem: the narco wars in Central America have triggered staggering homicide rates and concerns about how to establish peace there.
The European Union is planning further sanctions against Syria, spokesman Michael Mann said Wednesday, as Syria continued its crackdown on anti-government protesters.
A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up in front of an airport in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least seven civilians, police said.
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