World
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Environmentalists say they are disappointed with some of the world's richest countries for failing to make meaningful commitments at a U.N. conference on climate change.
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Pirates chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international warships, a maritime official said Tuesday.
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Somalia urgently needs international help to stem an Islamic insurgency and rampant piracy off the coast, the prime minister said in an interview Tuesday.
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Throngs of mourners on Tuesday packed the funerals of the six Jews killed in the 60-hour terror rampage in the Indian city of Mumbai, a grim occasion deepened by the conviction that the victims were targeted because of their religion.
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A special Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin, "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid, to death Tuesday after convicting him of crimes against humanity for his part in crushing the 1991 Shiite uprising in southern Iraq.
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Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada - once described as Osama bin Laden's ambassador in Europe - was ordered jailed Tuesday by a British judge because of fears he was preparing to abscond.
