Suicide attackers stormed a mosque close to Pakistan's army headquarters, killing 35 people during Friday prayers as they sprayed gunfire at worshippers and threw grenades before blowing themselves up, officials said. Read More

An overcrowded passenger boat capsized in northern Bangladesh on Friday after being hit by a small ferry, leaving at least 46 people dead, police said. Read More

A top NATO official says that dozens of countries will send an estimated 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan next year, "with more to come." The announcement came right before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her NATO counterparts that an infusion of soldiers could turn the tide in a conflict her boss is hoping to wind down. Read More

A trio of Swedish entrepreneurs launched a line of designer jeans made in North Korea, saying Friday they hope to help break the country's isolation by joining the handful of foreign manufacturers operating in the communist nation. Read More

Guinea's president has been medically evacuated to Morocco for treatment after he was shot during an assassination attempt nearly a year after he seized power in a coup, a government official said Friday. Read More

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

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

A look at major attacks in Pakistan since the start of October: Read More

Security forces raided four compounds on Friday belonging to a powerful clan suspected in the massacre of 57 people in the Philippines' worst political violence, as eight journalists among the victims were buried in a common grave. Read More

A nuclear official said Friday Iran will not answer to the U.N. nuclear watchdog about its plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment sites beyond the barest minimum required under the international nonproliferation treaty. 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

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

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

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