The campaign posters are inflammatory: Minarets rising like missiles from the national flag. Read More

The U.N. nuclear agency's board censured Iran on Friday, with 25 nations backing a resolution that demands Tehran immediately mothball its newly revealed nuclear facility and heed U.N. Security Council resolutions calling on it to stop uranium enrichment. Read More

Indonesia has rejected a push by the resort island of Bali for rare turtles to be legally slain in Hindu ceremonies, siding with conservationists of the protected reptiles against religious advocates, an official said Friday. Read More

Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban and other extremist groups Friday to lay down their weapons and participate in rebuilding the battered country, as part of reconciliation efforts he has said will be his main objective during his second term. Read More

A key anti-Taliban tribal leader was assassinated Friday in a roadside bombing, the latest in a series of attacks against pro-government militias in the Afghan border area of northwestern Pakistan. Read More

Pope Benedict XVI says immigrant children must be fully integrated into their new societies and protected from the risks of exploitation. Read More

Pilgrims are casting stones at walls representing the devil on the third day of the annual hajj as Muslims begin Eid al-Adha, one of the most important holidays of the Islamic calendar. Read More

The Philippine politician whose wife and relatives were among 57 people massacred in an apparent bid to stop him from running for governor filed his candidacy papers Friday, vowing only his death could stop him. Read More

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent. Read More

Namibia's longtime ruling party may see its grip on this desert nation weakened in elections that began Friday, with a challenge from a new breakaway party hoping to attract voters dissatisfied with corruption and leadership scandals. Read More

The United Nations says at least four of its peacekeepers have been wounded in northern Congo after a U.N. helicopter was attacked by armed men. Read More

Diplomats: Majority of IAEA board censures Iran's nuclear defiance in a vote. Read More

On what is more akin to a sunny winter's stroll, U.S. troops proudly tread on a newly asphalted road, past a refurbished mosque and a crowded market overflowing with produce. Children dance around the soldiers' boots and bearded men stop them for a casual chat. Read More

German prosecutors say they have filed criminal charges against the father of a teenager who killed 15 people in a shooting spree in March. Read More

Britain's top diplomat at the United Nations in the buildup to the 2003 Iraq war is giving evidence to the country's inquiry into the invasion. Read More

The governor of the volatile southern Afghan province of Kandahar survived an assassination attempt when a bomb targeting his convoy exploded as he headed for Friday prayers to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Read More

The chief physician for Nigeria's president says the leader is undergoing treatment for a heart condition at a hospital in Saudi Arabia. Read More

An approaching global climate summit has raised the temperature at a typically low-key meeting of leaders from Britain's former colonial empire. Read More

Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland's government concluded Thursday. Read More

By day, French soldiers fight side by side with Afghans during Taliban attacks. By night, their officers share meals, the French trying to muster haute cuisine from military rations, the Afghans offering steaming piles of mutton stew and rice. Read More