WORLD

A House of Representatives vote will keep air-traffic control towers open.

The death penalty is on the books in Sri Lanka, but no executions have taken place since 1976.

The driver of a bus carrying developmentally disabled adults stopped the vehicle at a railroad crossing.

A 28-year-old female U.S. Navy sailor used her training to fight off an attempted rapist in Dubai.

Mykyta Panasenko stands accused of bringing two homemade explosives onto a NJTransit train on April 7, more than a week before the Boston Marathon bombings.

Civilian distrust of government, clan rivalries and lack of political will contribute to the endemic violence and widespread gun culture of Filipino society.

The Boston Marathon bombing suspect is well enough to leave intensive care and be held at Fort Devens, Mass.

By exempting the FAA from federal workers' furloughs, U.S. passengers will be spared additional airport delays.

Kim Decker, a 54-year-old woman from Montague, N.J., was arrested after state troopers discovered 333 heroin packets in her bra.

South Korea issued a directive to its remaining workers to leave a jointly run industrial complex in North Korea on Friday.

Colorado's Court of Appeals ruled that even though marijuana is legal in Colorado, employees can still be fired for smoking pot outside of the workplace.

Hundreds of people are still missing after a garment factory building collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday.

Though many high-end hotels in China are only half-full, companies still plan to open more.

A preliminary deal among Serbia, Kosovo and the EU makes headway in the dispute over Kosovo sovereignty.

A deadly fire ravaged a psychiatric hospital in the north of Moscow during the wee hours of Friday morning leaving 38 people dead.

New York City Police aim to prevent chemical attacks on NYC subways with the help of an experiment this summer.

The president said the small Texas town's character was on display in the response to the fertilizer plant explosion.

This may be the best political slogan ever -- and now it's a song, thanks to NYC mayoral candidate Jimmy McMillan.

Scotland banned an ad by Donald Trump, criticizing a proposed wind farm in the region.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators he and his brother Tamerlan planned to detonate their remaining bombs three days after the Boston attack.

Human Rights Watch says the harassment and sexual assault of female police officers by male coworkers is a societal problem.

Reports are surfacing indicating the owners of the building that collapsed on Wednesday ordered workers back in before it fell to ruins.

George W. Bush avoided weighing in on the national gay marriage debate during his interview with CBS's Charlie Rose.

Speaking at the George W. Bush Library dedication, Obama says the former president deserves credit if comprehensive immigration reform gets done.

In the 19th century, millions of koalas roamed all across Australia. There are now no more than 100,000 on the entire continent.

Damascenes fleeing the war end up in the capital's downtown, but the security found there is elusive. And it may be gone soon.

The cause of the fire was still under investigation; autopsies were scheduled for Thursday.

The U.S. says Syria crossed a "red line." But still no word on what might happen next.

Among the human casualties, one of Syria's greatest landmarks has also fallen to the violence.