Huge explosions and flames ripped through a Russian military arsenal for hours on Friday, killing two firefighters and sending personnel fleeing to a bomb shelter to wait out the worst of the firestorm, officials said. Read More

Some 33 allegations of abuse involving British soldiers who served in Iraq are being investigated, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Saturday. Read More

NATO says two U.S. service members and an American contractor have been killed in two separate explosions in Afghanistan. Read More

About 200 South Koreans rallied Saturday to protest a government plan to send troops to Afghanistan, days ahead of a visit to Seoul by President Barack Obama. Read More

A suicide car bomber killed 10 people, including four children, Saturday at a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, in the latest in a string of militant attacks targeting the city, officials said. Read More

President Barack Obama pressed on with his mission to repair America's global standing, telling Asians he was determined to engage them as equal partners in the economy, diplomacy and security. Read More

The U.N. food chief said Saturday he was chilly but otherwise slept OK after his first night on a hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of the world's hungry before next week's U.N. food summit. Read More

A veteran Slovenian climber was found dead in the Himalayas Saturday days after he was injured and stranded on a 23,710-foot (7,227-meter) mountain, a mountain rescue company and a close friend said. Read More

Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online means to broadcast its message, local newspapers reported Saturday. Read More

A fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing 10 people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said. Read More

Lebanon's new government, a shaky coalition of Western-backed factions and the militant Hezbollah, is unlikely to tackle the chief challenge the country faces _ a buildup of the Iranian-backed group's weapons _ even as the rockets cause sharp new tensions with neighboring Israel. Read More

James R. Lilley, a longtime CIA operative and later the U.S. ambassador to China during the time of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died. He was 81. Read More

Obama seeks equal partnership in Asia; welcomes China's growing economic muscle Read More

A speeding train derailed in western India early Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 80. Read More

Police: Suicide attacker carried out car bombing in northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. Read More

Indonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction. Read More

Government forces have killed more than 20 militants in Chechnya, and a bomb blast at a cemetery in a neighboring province killed three relatives visiting the grave of a police officer slain by insurgents, law enforcement authorities said. Read More

Washington signaled it will resist protectionism as it copes with the economic downturn, announcing Saturday that the U.S. will join a free-trade area with other Pacific Rim nations. Read More

More than a thousand devout Jews noisly protested in Jerusalem on Saturday against plans by computer chip maker Intel to operate on the Jewish day of rest. Read More

The United States and Russia have agreed on the broad outlines of a deal to replace a major Cold-War era arms control agreement and are trying to work out remaining technical issues, U.S. officials say. Read More