Daniel Tovrov

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh gave his farewell address on Monday, stepping down after 33 years in power in response to months of protests.

The European Union approved an oil embargo against Iran in hopes that new economic pressures will convince the country to abandon its nuclear program.

The first of what will surely be many inevitable lawsuits against the Costa cruise line over the sinking of the Concordia have been started. Two U.S. law firms are planning to sue on behalf of the passengers of the cruise ship.

Three Muslim men in England were convicted of hate crimes for saying that homosexuals should be put to death.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday warned against military intervention in Iran, fearing that it would not stop the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons program, but instead bring more chaos to the region.

Amateur video taken while the Costa Concordia cruise ship was sinking shows a chaotic scene where crew members told passengers in life vests to return to their cabins.

Four French soldiers were killed and several wounded in Afghanistan on Friday by a member of the Afghan National Army, prompting President Nicolas Sarkozy to suspend France's training operations in the country.

Novelist Salman Rushdie has canceled his appearance at the Jaipur Literary Festival after he was warned by police about assassination threats.

In the five years since Mexican president Felipe Calderon began to use the military to combat the country's powerful drug cartels, some 50,000 people have been killed. With people being murdered in the country nearly every day, how is the violence affecting Mexico's tourism industry?

Fifty thousand people marched in Istanbul on Thursday in commemoration of Hrant Dink, the Armenian journalist who was assassinated exactly five years earlier. Holding photos of Dink and signs reading We are all Hrant, we are all Armenian, they walked to the site in the Turkish capital where the reporter was killed in 2007.

Janne Kristiansen, the head of Norway's intelligence service, made a not-so intelligent gaffe when she revealed that Norway had spies working in Pakistan on Wednesday night.

David Cameron wonders if bank heads make too much in bonuses.

Al-Qaeda has always had a strong presence in Yemen, but with the country currently in the middle of a governmental transition, the terrorist group has launched a violent campaign for land and power.

Full transcript of the court's preliminary inquiry into Concordia Captain Francesco Schettino, who crashed the ship on Friday and allegedly fled the scene.

Inside the Costa Concordia, rescue divers have restarted their search for the 21 people still missing on Thursday, but a forecast for rough seas means they'll need to work fast.

Francesco Schettino, the captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship, is in police custody and for good reason. He went against the maritime protocol and endangered the lives of the 4,200 people on board the ship when it went down.

There are procedures and protocols in place for all maritime disasters. Costa captain Francescho Schettino didn't appear to follow any of them when the ship crashed on Friday.

The search for the 23 people still missing after the wreck of the Costa Concordia has been suspended again on Wednesday as the ship began to shift. Rescue operations were called off earlier in the week for the same reason, when choppy seas threatened to move the Concordia from its rocky perch.

Ethiopia's government has seized land from 70,000 indigenous farmers, giving it to commercial developers while leaving the farmers without adequate food or resources, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

The sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship will be followed by months of litigation, with families of victims, wounded passengers and crew members sure to file suit against Carnival. What is the legal precedent for the maritime case?

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has sent troops into major cities to stop protests over the removal of a fuel subsidy.

With 29 people still missing following the wreck of the Costa Concordia, rescuers in Italy have restarted their search for survivors. On Tuesday, navy divers blew a hole in the ship's hull using small explosive charges and made their way into the submerged vessel.

Following in the footsteps of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Guatemala's newly elected president, Otto Perez Molina, is going to use the military to combat drug trafficking in his country.

The cruising industry is as complicated as it is new. How badly will the sinking of the Costa Concordia in Europe hit Carnival and its competitors?

Terror suspect and alleged Hezbollah militant Atris Hussein led Thai police to a warehouse filled with bomb making material outside of Bangkok on Monday.

The Costa Crociere company has blamed human error for the grounding and subsequent sinking of the Concordia on Friday, claiming that captain Francesco Schettino made an unapproved, unauthorized and ultimately deadly, maneuver.

Tourist sites, synagogues and the Israeli embassy were possible targets for a terrorist attack in Bangkok. A Lebanese national with suspected links to Hezbollah has been arrested.

Fifty-seven people were killed in tribal clashes in South Sudan this week, most of them women and children. Another 53 people were wounded in the clash between Lou Nuer and Murle groups in Jonglei state, thirteen of whom needed to be airlifted to safety.

All four United States Marines caught on video urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have been identified.