Daniel Tovrov

British Foreign Secretary William Hague visited Burma this week to show that the UK and other world powers were serious about the country's slow move toward democracy.

Violence once again rises in troubled Nigeria, where an Islamic insurgency called Boko Haram has turned its ire upon Christian civilians.

President Barack Obama revealed that the United States will be sending more troops to the Asia-Pacific, a move that China was quick to criticize on Friday.

Friday was the holiday of Epiphany in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.

French teen Kristy Bamu was tortured and murdered in East London by his own family for being a witch. The Old Bailey court heard the case against Eric Bikubi and Magalie Bamu on Wednesday.

Hutu rebels from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda are murdering civilians in the eastern Congo.

After more than a month of posturing, Iran said it's ready to restart nuclear talks with the European Union, adding that Turkey would be the best place for a dialog.

China's airline companies are refusing to pay a new European Union carbon tax when traveling to airports on the continent.

A prison melee in Mexico has left 31 people dead and another dozen injured in the state of Tamaulipas.

The country of Cuba is fuming after a rumor that Fidel Castro was dead spread across Twitter.

Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh will not be traveling to the United States for medical treatment. The embattled leader will stay at home to help with the transition of power following his departure for office.

How flip-flops are being used as a mass movement against police corruption in Indonesia.

Germany's President Christian Wulff will not resign following a home loan scandal and still insists that he did nothing illegal, but did admit that threatening newspaper editors was wrong.

Because of financial constraints at Qantas Airways -- Australia's biggest carrier --150 of the company's 2,000 pilots went on unpaid leave.

Police in Guangdon, China believe billionaire tycoon Long Liyuan was murdered by a local official who served him poisoned cat-meat stew in late December.

Youssou N'Dour is running for president of Senegal. The singer will try to capture the youth vote in an effort to upset the 85-year-old incumbent Abdoulaye Wade.

A murder in the House of Windsor! Well, not quite house, but police are investigating the body of a woman found of the royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

China has publicly rejected new U.S. sanctions on Iran.

Mexico drug violence killed more than 12,000 people in 2011.

Nigerians are furious over the government's removal of a fuel subsidy, which instantly sent the price of oil rising to new levels. Thousands of people protested across the country.

Militias clashed with government security troops in Tripoli, Libya on Tuesday, casting a blow to the country's attempt at forming a new government.

The chief prosecutor in the trial against Hosni Mubarak lambasted the former Egyptian president during an hour-long argument that The Associated Press called the harshest assessment of Mubarak's rule ever heard in an Egyptian courtroom.

France wants tougher sanctions against Iran like the ones imposed by the United States.

German President Christian Wulff is now in even more trouble after reports surfaced that he threatened news outlets against running stories on his loan scandal.

Rape destroys love as ethnic violence destroys a nation in Angelina Jolie's directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey.

More violence in South Sudan as two ethnic groups resume an old battle. Around 1,000 people have died in recent months and the latest assault on a town has overwhelmed the United Nations.

Iran symbolically threatened the U.S. and Israel on two fronts Monday: the testing of new long-range rockets and the production of a nuclear fuel rod.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews dressed up as Holocaust prisoners in a protest against what they feel is the Israeli government's unjust persecution of the their conservative community.

North Korea will not change its stance toward the South.