A Wiltshire, England, police sergeant could face prison time at his sentencing Tuesday for assaulting a 57-year-old woman in custody two years ago, an incident caught on the station's closed-circuit television.
A string of bombings and shootings in Iraq has left at least one Iraqi military officer and five civilians dead and at least 21 people wounded, authorities said Monday.
Contradictory reports swirl around an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, with one Iranian lawyer saying she had been whipped 99 times for another alleged offense, but another casting doubt on it.
A tropical depression in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is creeping toward Mexico and the United States and could bring substantial rainfall, officials said.
A Japanese freelance journalist who was kidnapped for five months in Afghanistan and released Saturday says his kidnappers weren't members of the Taliban, but corrupt Afghan soldiers.
Heavy rain and flooding have prompted the evacuation of hundreds of households in Australia's second-most-populated state, emergency officials said Monday.
North Korea has decided to return a South Korean fishing boat and its crew, after the North's navy intercepted them in its waters in August, state-run media said Monday.
Hedging their bets, officials in Chile said on Sunday they will set up an oil drill as a third option to rescue the 33 miners trapped underground since August 5.
Iranian officials continued Sunday to trade barbs with the Palestinian Authority over its president's decision to renew direct peace talks with Israel.
A cargo vessel caught fire and capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, leaving an unknown number of people missing, a government spokesman said Sunday.
Pope Benedict XVI is monitoring the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning and has not ruled out getting involved through diplomatic channels, the Vatican said Sunday.
A bomb maker was among several Taliban captured during a joint Afghan and coalition force operation in east-central Afghanistan Sunday, officials said.
The death toll in a mudslide that buried a bus and five cars on a Guatemalan highway rose to 36 today but could reach 100, the nation's emergency services agency said.
A British newspaper said Sunday that a top Pakistani cricket player confirmed its allegations of corruption on the Pakistani national team. Yasir Hameed said he was offered a bribe but turned it down, the paper reported.