European financial and political leaders have agreed to a plan that would inject billions of euros into their banks in a bid to restore confidence to the financial system.

North Korea on Sunday welcomed the move and said that it would resume disabling its nuclear weapons facilities.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Fatmata Jalloh's body lay on a rusting metal gurney in a damp hospital ward, a scrap of paper with her name and "R.I.P." taped to her stomach. In the soft light of a single candle -- the power was out again in one of Africa's poorest cities -- Jalloh looked like a sleepi...

NEW YORK -- This big, brash, in-your-face city suddenly seems to have lost its mojo.

BAGHDAD Muhammed Kurmash's phone rang. On the line were Taha and Khudair, his former neighbors and best friends. They are Sunnis. He is a Shiite. They hadn't spoken since June 2007. But on this September morning, they urged him to return to his house in eastern Baghdad's Amil neighborhood, Kurmash...

AKASIA, South Africa -- Mohammed Rage lived here among the dusty tents outside the nation's capital for one month. At 48, the Somali shopkeeper was considered an elder among hundreds of immigrants who sought refuge in this government-run encampment after brutal attacks against foreigners spread...

XAPURI, Brazil, Oct. 11 -- She remembers the spot in the hallway where her father said, "They shot me," then fell into the arms of his wife. She remembers, even though she was only 4 years old, how Chico Mendes tried to say her name but couldn't finish the words before the world's most famous rub...

TEHRAN, Oct. 11 -- When Iranian movie star Golshifteh Farahani moved from Tehran to Hollywood, she didn't bring along her head scarf, which is obligatory in her own country.

The Bush administration removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist yesterday, a move that was aimed at salvaging a sputtering nuclear disarmament deal but that sparked internal controversy, infuriated Japan and drew some Republican opposition.

More than a month after his absence from an important anniversary parade fueled theories that he had suffered a stroke, Kim Jong-il reportedly inspected a military unit.