A U.S. missile attack killed eight people, including foreign militants on Friday in the second such attack in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt in two days, Pakistani security officials said.

A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed skepticism that a major market for fat might exist.

A U.S. judge on Thursday handed down prison terms of eight and nine years to two more men accused of swearing allegiance to al-Qaida and plotting to blow up the Sears Tower, the tallest building in the United States.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed Thursday to Afghan President Hamid Karzai to bring technocrats rather than warlords into his new government.

U.S. President Barack Obama is returning from an Asia tour lacking the fanfare of past trips to a set of persistent problems, including Afghanistan, unemployment and health care reform.

Honduras's de facto leader said he may give up his presidential duties for a week so voters can focus on an election that Washington hopes will help end a five-month-old political crisis.

The United States is seeking the release of a U.S. citizen detained in Beijing for two years, in a case similar to the detentions of Rio Tinto staff which launched an international debate over China's secrets laws.

Argentina's Senate passed a bill Thursday that could see hundreds of people take mandatory tests to determine whether their parents were among the thousands who disappeared under military rule.

Now that the European Union has a new president and foreign policy supremo, the U.S. State Department might finally learn exactly who to call when Hillary Clinton wants to talk to Europe.

A group of Cambodian soldiers have arrived in Chad as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, the U.N. said on Thursday.