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Richard Goldstone, the South African judge who had said threatened protests at his grandson’s bar mitzvah would keep him from attending, has reached an agreement with Jewish groups.

Convicted of sorcery, Ali Hussain Sibat of Lebanon has been awaiting execution in Saudi Arabia.

In Niger, China is sealing its reputation as Africa’s behind-the-scenes force, ready to do business regardless of who is in power or whatever outrage exists about it.

Lorena Ochoa’s retirement at the age of 28 gives her plenty of time to focus on building a legacy off the golf course.

Will an influx of strangers change Britain? It’s a question on many minds, but politicians skirt it like a landmine.

As scandal and modernity test the Roman Catholic Church, will Poland and its people become more secular?

Officials from the U.S., Brazil and other nations urged members of the International Monetary Fund to continue on a measure to redistribute voting power in the organization.

Warrior Transition Units were intended to be sheltering way stations where injured soldiers could recuperate. But the units are far from being restful sanctuaries.

President Obama, who once vowed to use the term genocide to describe the slaughter of Armenians nearly a century ago, again declined to do so.

North Korea’s government appears to be trying to build a personality cult around Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of Kim Jong-il.

Wang Lequan devised hard-line policies that became a model for other restive regions, particularly Tibet.

As the Catholic Church grapples with a sexual abuse scandal involving its clergy, it must show that it has “nothing to hide,” the Vatican spokesman said.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand rejected a compromise offer by anti-government protesters to end weeks of protests in return for early polls.

Mr. Schaefer was a former Nazi-era German soldier who founded a secretive German cult in southern Chile, where he sexually abused about 25 children.

Europe may be a union, but in this crisis, national traits seemed to rise like plumes from a volcano.

The fate of Jacqui Smith, who became a symbol of the parliamentary expenses scandal, mirrors her Labour Party’s sagging fortunes.

South Korea salvaged the remaining half of a warship that sank near a sea border with North Korea, as suspicion of a North Korean torpedo attack deepened.

Phone calls, e-mail messages and other connections reunited a daughter and her mother from Kenya.

Paul Schaefer, a former Nazi, founded a secretive German cult in Southern Chile in the 1960s and was later convicted of sexually abusing children.

A rural region forms much of the core of the red shirt movement, demonstrating the magnitude of the challenge facing the government.