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Russian warships hold exercises with Chavez's navy
Russian warships have ended training exercises with Venezuela's navy in Moscow's first such Caribbean deployment since the Cold War.
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Thai airports to reopen after government falls
Thailand's prime minister was ousted Tuesday after weeks of protests closed the capital's airports, stranding 300,000 travelers. Protesters promised to lift their siege, and international flights were expected to resume Friday.
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US official: India knew of plot on Mumbai's coast
India received a warning from the United States before last week's attacks in Mumbai that militants were plotting a waterborne assault on the city, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday as domestic intelligence officials said they were aware of a Pakistan-based plot.
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Pirates fire on US cruise ship in hijack attempt
The luxury American cruise ship teeming with hundreds of tourists just might have been too much for the Somali pirates to resist.
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UN concerned over treatment of Iraqi detainees
The United Nations expressed concern Tuesday about overcrowding and "grave human rights violations" of detainees in Iraqi custody - in one case, 123 men crammed into a single cell.
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China says 300,000 babies sickened by tainted milk
China has dramatically raised the toll from its tainted milk powder scandal, saying six babies likely died and 300,000 were sickened, figures that back up months of complaints from parents and show the government is beginning to acknowledge the scale of the crisis.
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Tearful Israel mourns 6 victims of Mumbai attack
Thousands of grief-stricken Orthodox Jews prayed and wept Tuesday before the shrouded bodies of Israelis killed in Mumbai, joining the national mourning in a ceremony broadcast on TV and attended by Israeli leaders.
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'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death in Iraq
Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid received a second death sentence Tuesday - this time for crushing a Shiite uprising in the wake of Iraq's defeat in the 1991 Gulf War.
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High tide wallops Venice for 2nd straight day
Strong southern winds pushed the Adriatic Sea into Venice again Tuesday, submerging parts of the lagoon city a day after an unusually high tide caused the worst flooding in 20 years.
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Body-swap illusion tricks mind in new study
Shaking hands with yourself is an amusing out-of-body experience. The illusion of having your stomach slashed with a kitchen knife, not so much.
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