An intelligence official says 35 people have been killed in an attack on a mosque close to army headquarters in Pakistan. Read More

Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks Friday and held a Cabinet meeting amid Mount Everest's frigid, thin air to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week's international climate change talks. Read More

Intelligence official says 35 killed in attack on mosque near Pakistan army headquarters. Read More

NATO's top official said Friday that at least 25 countries will send a total of about 7,000 additional forces to Afghanistan next year "with more to come," as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to bolster allied resolve. Read More

Guinea's president is being treated by a team of doctors who arrived overnight from neighboring Senegal, a spokesman said Friday after the leader was shot during an assassination attempt nearly a year after he seized power in a coup. Read More

The global economic crisis may be driving more people into forced labor and other forms of modern-day slavery, a senior U.S. official said Friday. Read More

North Korea is making an unlikely foray into designer denim as the "Noko Jeans" label is launched in Sweden. Read More

Britain's chief rabbi has called for a Sabbath devoted to the environment ahead of the climate talks due to be held next week in Copenhagen. Read More

An Italian court began deliberations Friday in the yearlong trial of American student Amanda Knox, who is charged with murdering her British roommate. Read More

NATO chief says 25 countries will send more troops to Afghanistan in 2010. Read More

China has sentenced three more people to death for murder and other crimes committed in riots in the western region of Xinjiang in July. Read More

The commander of a powerful rebel movement in India's remote northeast was arrested along with a top deputy, officials said Friday, in a major blow to a separatist army already crippled by a string of arrests. Read More

Crucial dates in the slaying of British student Meredith Kercher and the subsequent investigation involving U.S. student Amanda Knox, Italian Raffaele Sollecito and Ivorian citizen Rudy Hermann Guede. Read More

A group of yachtsmen held briefly by Iran after their boat crossed into Iranian waters returned to Britain on Friday. Read More

An overcrowded passenger boat capsized in northern Bangladesh on Friday after being hit by a small ferry, leaving at least 47 people dead and several missing, police said. Read More

U.S. Ambassador John Roos urged a quick resolution Friday of a dispute over the relocation of a U.S. Marine base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa that is straining bilateral ties and raising tension within Japan's ruling coalition. Read More

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday the allies will prevail in their bid to stabilize Afghanistan but only if they answer President Barack Obama's call for more allied troops on the ground. Read More

An Iranian nuclear official says Tehran will not answer to the U.N. nuclear watchdog beyond the barest minimum required under the international nonproliferation treaty. Read More

Dubai's ruler writes poetry, rides horses across the desert in long-distance endurance races and hobnobs with royals like the Queen of England. Mixing extravagance with boundless ambition, he commanded the desert city-state's meteoric rise _ and helped sow the seeds, some observers say, of its debt crisis. Read More

A Cold War-era nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia expires Friday, but its key provisions are likely to remain in effect while negotiators work out the final details of a replacement treaty. Read More