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Singer Robin Gibb has “confounded” his doctors by emerging from a coma just days after they thought he might not survive it, his physician said Sunday.

Days of escalating government protests failed to halt the Bahrain Grand Prix race today, which took place even as nearby streets were blocked with burning tires and trash.

Exit polls from the French presidential elections show Socialist candidate Francois Hollande with 28.4% of the vote and President Nicolas Sarkozy with 25.5%, according to French television.

Syrians in the devastated city of Homs endured another day of heavy shelling Sunday, opposition activists said, a day after the U.N. Security Council voted to send up to 300 observers to monitor a shaky cease-fire.

Group seeks to increase awareness of African warlord Joseph Kony. CNN’s David McKenzie reports.

The United Nations Security Council on Saturday voted unanimously to authorize up to 300 unarmed military monitors to try and bring about compliance with a cease-fire imposed last week in violence-wracked Syria.

The grisly search for remains at the scene of a commercial plane crash in Pakistan continued Saturday, with officials doubting anyone on board survived.

Afghan security officials said Saturday they had seized 10 tonnes of explosives and foiled plans to stage attacks in the capital, Kabul.

Officials warned that more Secret Service resignations could come Friday, stemming from an alleged prostitution scandal in Colombia that is the focus of congressional inquiry and outrage.

A commercial airplane carrying at least 121 people crashed Friday in Pakistan just before it was to land at an airport, according to Pakistan authorities. No survivors have been found, officials said.