Ryan Villarreal

At least 1 million evangelical Christians took part in Saturday's annual March for Jesus in Sao Paulo, demonstrating the growing trend of Protestantism in Brazil.

Seven witch doctors have been murdered, their brains eaten and their penises turned into soup, according to charges filed against 29 people accused of being part of a cannibal cult living deep within the highland jungles of Papua New Guinea.

The Iraqi government warned Turkey Sunday that an oil and natural gas trade deal with the autonomously-ruled Kurdish region in northern Iraq could damage economic ties between the two countries.

A bill requiring the Iranian government to design and build nuclear-powered commercial ships was approved by a parliamentary committee Sunday. The measure stipulates the government must provide nuclear fuel for the ships, which would require the Islamic Republic to continue its uranium-enrichment activities.

An Afghan investigation into the suicide bombing attack that killed 23 people Saturday, including three security force officials, during a wedding ceremony indicates the involvement of Taliban-affiliated terrorists, the country's interior minister has said.

Chinese navy ships were able to free a stranded vessel in disputed waters near the Philippines Sunday, avoiding a potential standoff between the two countries, which have both made conflicting territorial claims in the South China Sea.

The U.N. human rights chief has called for an independent investigation into the police crackdown on striking oil workers in Kazakhstan last December in which at least 15 people died and over 100 were injured after police opened fire on the crowd.

A Syrian army general who defected last week is reportedly in contact with opposition forces, France's foreign minister announced Thursday.

Peru has a launched a project to combat exploitative child labor practices with a $13 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has said that he will respect a court ruling that overturned his attempt to reinstate the lower house of Parliament, which had been dissolved by the Military Council last month prior to the Islamist leader's election victory.

Australia has declared early 25 million acres (10 million hectares) of the southern Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory -- home to some of the country's most endangered species -- a conservation zone.

U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being redeployed to Goma as a rebel group advances toward the city.

Years before leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales was elected to office in 2006, he chaired the country's coca growers union, a post which he was recently re-elected to and has held since 1996.

A recently ordained Chinese bishop has been detained after he resigned from his post at the government-run Catholic Patriotic Association, which oversees the state-sanctioned Catholic church in China.

After tens of thousands of protesters in Mexico City demonstrated Saturday against President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto's victory in the July 1 elections, the leftist opposition party of runner-up candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said it will appeal the results.

Three people have already died following a cholera outbreak in southeastern Cuba last week, with at least 50 more people contracting the life-threatening waterborne bacterial disease and around 1,000 people showing symptoms of infection.

Two of Argentina's former military dictators have been convicted for their involvement in the state-orchestrated abduction of babies belonging to political dissidents.

If there is one reliable trend in Venezuela, it would appear to be a steadily rising murder rate. Violent crime in general -- whether it be homicide, robbery, kidnapping or assault -- is already a glaring problem in the oil-rich, Socialist-led South American nation, and as it continues to grow it will only further entrench itself as an imperative issue in the upcoming presidential elections in October.

Three prominent Kenyan musicians have been charged with using hate speech in their song lyrics and inciting ethnic violence for political purposes.

Electoral authorities in Mexico have initiated a recount of roughly half of the votes cast in the presidential election

China has forbidden Olympic athletes from eating beef, lamb and pork lest additives in the meat turn up in blood samples as banned drugs. There's only one problem: the athletes say the new diet is to blame for losses.

After turning up second in Mexico's presidential elections, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador questioned the legitimacy of the results and refused to concede, following a similar scenario in 2006 when he lost to President Felipe Calderon by little more than half a percentage point.

Less than a week after the U.N.'s cultural agency Unesco added Timbuktu to a list of historically significant sites in danger, Islamist rebels, who have taken control of the fabled city in northern Mali, began a systematic attack on its centuries-old cultural heritage.

Armando Montano had been interning with the Associated Press in Mexico City for less than a month before he was found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft.

For the first time in over a decade, Iceland's longtime incumbent of 15 years President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has a viable candidate facing him for reelection this Saturday - a former television reporter who recently gave birth to a baby girl.

The Venezuelan Supreme Court has ordered the seizure of $5.7 million in assets of a privately-funded news channel that's the last remaining network critical of president Hugo Chavez

The United Nations cultural agency has added the legendary city of Timbuktu to a list of historically significant sites in danger as rebel factions skirmish in northern Mali.

Former Egyptian Oil Minister Samih Fahmi has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a deal that exported natural gas to Israel below market value and cost the government over $714 million in lost revenue.

Russia reaffirmed its rejection of international calls for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down while indicating support for the formation of a unity government to appease opposition groups, as the military continues a bloody conflict with rebel insurgents.