Dutch prosecutors called for the disbanding of a paedophile group which advocates consensual sex between adults and children.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that countries trying to “sow chaos” in Syria could be infected with it themselves.

Activists have slammed the appointment of former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner as Trinidad’s acting prime minister.

Yemeni troops, backed by local tribesmen, captured a strategic mountain that controls access to cities long held by al Qaeda-linked militants.

The government of France's new President Francois Hollande is likely to be dominated by moderate social democrats.

Two Mexican generals, including the former deputy minister of defense, are being investigated for ties to organized crime.

Twenty years after Ratko Mladic's forces began raining artillery fire on Sarajevo, the former Serb general is on trial for genocide.

Former Senator John Edwards, his ex-mistress and his oldest daughter may take the witness stand to offer a last word in his defense.

Heavy fighting rocked Lebanon's northern port of Tripoli for a fourth day on Wednesday, wounding at least six people.

Greece put a senior judge in charge of an emergency government on Wednesday to lead it to new elections on June 17.

The news director for one of Honduras' most important radio stations has been found dead, nearly a week after he was kidnapped.

Germany's Central Council of Jews says Holocaust survivor and scholar Arno Lustiger has died at age 88.

The Czech government approved plans on Wednesday to cut the number of its soldiers in Afghanistan in the next two years.

Survivors of Norway’s Utoeya Island massacre have decribed Anders Behring Breivik’s “battle cry” as both angry and joyous.

A father of 17 described how he made a desperate attempt to rescue his children after the blaze broke out.

Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic made a throat-slitting gesture to a woman who lost her loved ones in the Srebenica massacre.

This was no ordinary heist. The culprits were a pair of 8-year-olds and they hid their stash at the playground.

Police in China are reportedly investigating after the discovery of a batch of “fake” pigs' ears reportedly made from gelatin.

Battles around the restive town of Loder have left another 13 people dead, most of them jihadists.

Regime troops shot dead at least five people in a new assault on the flashpoint town of Khan Sheikhun, monitors said.