Daniel Tovrov

The United Nations estimates that 5,000 people each year are murdered in so-called honor killings. So what are honor killings and why do they happen?

Four British men admitted to planning a bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange, saying that they were inspired by American-born al-Qaeda radical Anwar al-Awlaki.

Mohammad Shafia -- found guilty of the honor killing murders of his three daughters on Monday -- will keep his millions of dollars in real estate holdings and personal wealth while serving a life sentence.

Although 16 people are still missing, Italian authorities called off the search for bodies inside the sunken Costa Concordia cruise ship around 3:45 p.m. local time on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama confirmed that the U.S. has been using drones to strike Taliban and al-Qaeda targets within Pakistan.

Rare color photos of Adolf Hitler have surfaced. Taken by Hugo Jaeger, the pictures reveal the private life of the leader of the Third Reich.

It could take a salvage crew up to 10 months to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that sank off of Italy's Giglio Island earlier this month.

Two terror suspects in Norway were convicted of plotting to bomb a Danish newspaper by an Oslo court on Monday.

Russia wants to mediate talks between the Syrian government and protestors, inviting both parties to informal negotiations in Moscow on Monday.

The Sudan military rescued 17 of the Chinese workers who were abducted from their camp in South Kordofan on Saturday. They were reportedly taken to a safe place, but at least 29 workers are still being held.

On Sunday, three Afghans were found guilty of the honor killing murders of four women in Canada. Husband and wife Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Yahya, and their son Hamed Shafia, were each convicted of four counts of first-degree murder for the murder of the family's three teenaged daughters and another woman, a verdict that carries an automatic life sentence.

Willem Holleeder, one of the most infamous criminals in the Netherlands, was released from prison on Friday after serving six years on a nine-year extortion sentence.

France will resume its training operations in Afghanistan after suspending its program for a week following the death of four French soldiers, but end its Afghanistan mission a year early.

Costa is offering the passengers who were aboard the Concordia when the cruise ship sank an 11,000 euro ($14,500) compensation package, which, when totaled, will bring a significant loss to the cruising company.

Boko Haram threatened Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan this week. Speaking in an audio message that was posted online, rebel leader Imam Abubakar Shekau said that he was willing to martyr himself to make Jonathan see.

Japan and South Korea are Iran's third and fifth biggest oil customers, but the United States, looking for international support for new sanctions pressuring Iran's oil sector, would like that to change.

Sam LaHood and other American employees of the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute, both non-governmental organizations, were stopped from boarding a flight in Cairo, and now Egyptian authorities are not letting them leave the country.

The leader of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has denied killing civilians during the coordinated bomb attacks in Kano last week.

Kenyan finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta has found that being charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court is not good for one's political career.

Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of French breast implant company Poly Implant Prostheses, was arrested on Thursday by national police in the Riviera town of Six-Fours-les-Plages.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan fired the national police head, Inspector-General Hafiz Ringim, over recent Boko Haram attacks.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom (formerly Kim Schmitz) was denied bail by a New Zealand court on Wednesday after a judge and prosecutors determined he was an extreme flight risk.

In 2011, the events of January 25 sparked events that would change the history of Egypt, and the date itself became a rallying cry for the bloggers, social media users and activists at the heart of the revolution. Exactly one year later, thousands of Egyptian protestors have again gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square, some in reflection but most in defiance.

These five films have been nominated for Best Foreign Language film for the 2012 Academy Awards.

Egypt's ruling military council said that it will lift a 30-year-long state of emergency on Wednesday, the one-year anniversary of the start of the revolution that led to the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak's regime.

Tensions in the already heated Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf rose again on Tuesday when Britain said it was considering sending more military assets to the area.

Leon Mugesera was deported from Canada on Tuesday and will soon being trial for war crimes in his native Rwanda.

On the same day that it imposed new sanctions on Iran, the European Union dropped some of its restrictions against the government of Burma.

Rescuers recovered two more bodies from the Costa Concordia on Monday, nine days after the cruise ship sank near Giglio Island, Italy. Meanwhile, a salvage company is ready to pump out the ship's fuel.