Israel election: Netanyahu's Likud 'set for win'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party has won a surprise victory in Israel's election, Israeli media report.
Who will look after Japan's elderly?
Several times a night, Midori Ide wakes up to help her 96-year-old grandmother use the toilet. To make sure she can assist immediately, Midori sleeps right next to her grandmother.
Israelis to vote in key election
Voters in Israel are preparing to go to the polls in what is expected to be a tightly-fought election.
Protests rock Brazil
About 1.5 million protesters hit the streets across Brazil on Sunday in a major show of anger against leftist president Dilma Rousseff, who faces crises from a faltering economy to a massive corruption scandal at state oil giant Petrobras.
50 die after bus plunges off road in southern Brazil.
Brazilian authorities on Sunday put the death toll at 50 after a bus carrying worshipers to a religious event plummeted into a ravine on Saturday.The bus veered out of a curve and plunged more than 1,100 feet in the rural area of Serra Dona Francisca,
Ali Zafar: World needs to help us out of extremist darkness.
December 16, 2014 was a dark day, not just in our nation's history, but the world's.Young innocent children were brutally massacred in a school in Peshawar along with their teachers.
Protesters demand President's ouster in Brazil, decry corruption.
Demonstrators took to the streets across Brazil on Sunday, protesting corruption and demanding the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.Her administration is struggling amid a weak economy.........
Suicide bombings in Christian area of Pakistani city kill at least 14 people.
Suicide bombers attacked a Christian community in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, setting off two blasts that killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, officials said.
Obama may not reduce troops in Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama is considering whether to scrap his drawdown plan to reduce U.S. forces in Afghanistan to 5,500 troops by the end of this year.A senior administration official said Saturday...
Cleanup begins in Vanuatu after cyclone batters islands.
The mayhem of Tropical Cyclone Pam, one of the most powerful storms ever to make landfall, is gone, but the misery it left behind in the islands of Vanuatu is just becoming apparent.Aid workers in the capital of Port Vila...
