President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to transfer the remains of the writer Albert Camus to one of the most hallowed burial places in France, but the plan has run into opposition from the Nobel laureate’s son.

Four United States troops have died fighting in Afghanistan in the last 24 hours, NATO said in a statement Monday.

Brazil’s decision to host Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was viewed as a signal of the country’s ambitions to become a bigger player in global diplomacy.

A round of meetings in Cairo and statements by senior officials have heightened anticipation that Israel and Hamas could swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for the Israeli solider Gilad Shalit.

The report on the 1992 destruction of a mosque by a Hindu mob found that the event had been given implicit approval by India’s right wing BJP party.

The British police and the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, shot by the police in July 2005 as Britain was in a state of high alert following attacks in London two weeks earlier, have agreed to a compensation deal.

In one of the worst incidents of election-related violence in the Philippines in recent memory, more than 40 people were kidnapped by armed men, officials said.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is drawing criticism for receiving Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his first state visit to Brazil.

At least four miners were still missing early Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said.

An activist who tried to help parents of children who died in last year’s Sichuan Province earthquake was sentenced for illegal possession of state secrets.

If Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan hand out enormous bonuses, as planned, it will only enrage Main Street that much more.

Romania’s centrist president will face a socialist former foreign minister in a Dec. 6 runoff election, partial results showed Monday.

A primer on the military utility of some of the force options before President Obama to bolster the 68,000 American troops already in Afghanistan.

Residents have been allowed to return to their homes after some of the worst storms on records hit northern England last week, causing floods.

Northern England was hit last week with some of the worst storm on record in Britain and many of its bridges may have been comprises by the subsequent flooding.

Closing arguments began Monday in Cambodia in the trial of the former Khmer Rouge prison chief who is accused of crimes against humanity.

Four U.S. service members were killed in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO said, bringing the number of Americans killed in Afghanistan in November to 15.

Huang Qi, who raised questions about the construction of Chinese schools that collapsed in last year’s Sichuan earthquake, was sentenced.

A long-running conflict between the government and Muslim separatists on the island of Mindanao has made displacement a regular part of refugees’ lives.

In another blow to Pakistan’s president, authorities released the names of politicians who benefited from an amnesty decree that dismissed past alleged crimes.