World leaders are launching a global plan with the goal of ensuring that every baby is born HIV-free by 2015 - and that their mothers with the HIV virus live to raise them.
The UN nuclear watchdog board reported Syria to the Security Council on Thursday for covert atomic work, a US-led move coinciding with Western condemnation of Damascus's crackdown on opposition protests.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank.
Citigroup Inc. said on Thursday that hackers accessed the credit card information of tens of thousands of its North American customers.
A Boeing-737 passenger jet with 64 people onboard made an emergency landing in Russia's southern city of Rostov-on-Don on Thursday morning, according to local media reports.
International Olympic Committee members are inspecting construction work at Maracana and other venues being prepared for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Azerbaijan wants Moscow to pay more for the use of a radar station that is part of Russia's warning system against attacks from beyond its southern frontiers, a senior Azeri official told Reuters.
Gunmen stormed a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan, killing nine people including the groom as they opened fire on a crowd of about 30 family members, officials said Thursday.
9 civilians were killed and 5 others injured Wednesday night when unidentified gun men attacked a wedding party in the country's Nangarhar province.
A pair of US missile strikes hit a vehicle and an alleged insurgent training facility Wednesday in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing 23 suspected Islamist militants.
A fire broke out early on Thursday morning at the hotel housing foreign journalists in the Libyan capital Tripoli, a Reuters witness said.
The New York Times says the Obama administration has intensified the covert US war in Yemen, hitting militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets.