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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan on Friday refused to step down following his conviction for contempt by the Supreme Court, saying that only parliament had the right to force him from office.

CNN’s Arwa Damon reports that rebels in Syria have no faith in the U.N. arranged cease-fire.

A day after U.S. lawmakers were briefed on an alleged prostitution scandal in Colombia involving Secret Service members, a report emerged Thursday of similar allegations, this time in El Salvador.

In one of the single deadliest incidents in the Syrian conflict, a military rocket attack killed more than 70 people in the flashpoint city of Hama, an activist told CNN on Thursday.

For 13 months, violence has raged in Syria between President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and the opposition in a lopsided battle that has seen thousands killed amid a number of international attempts to broker a peace deal.

Three of four minors accused of taking part in a brutal videotaped gang rape of a teenager will face full prosecution, a spokesman for a South African court said Wednesday.

The Pakistani Supreme Court is expected Thursday to announce its verdict in the contempt case against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

A teen in India who learned she had been married as a one-year-old baby gets the illegal marriage annulled.

Jeffrey Passel and D’Vera Cohn say it seemed inconceivable that the 40-year influx of millions of Mexicans to the U.S. would stop. But it has.

It’s an illuminating idea which its creators hope will help drive up energy efficiency and bring down buildings’ carbon emissions.