Israeli aircraft attacked two suspected weapon factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip in what the military said was retaliation for rocket fire.

For many years, European soccer hoped the day would never dawn when its own sports were contaminated by match fixing on anything like the levels of Asia. Events in Germany killed that hope.

Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a former vice president accused of fomenting widespread street unrest after Iran’s June election has been sentenced to six years in jail, Iranian media said on Sunday.

Indonesian television says a passenger ferry with more than 200 people onboard sank in rough waters near Sumatra island.

“Fela!” follows a tricky path between musical reproduction and reinvention to explore the life of a musical legend.

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who played a role in the founding of the Islamic Republic, has emerged as the spiritual leader of the opposition.

India’s largest private company said that it has made an offer to acquire a controlling interest in the world’s third-largest chemical company.

Three bombs exploded in India’s restive northeast Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding more than 25, police said.

Ms. Soderstrom was an opera star, who was acclaimed for the plangent richness of her singing and for a repertory that included leading roles in the Janacek operas.

Which is safer: technology that disables a cellphone in a moving car, or that makes the conversation completely hands-free?

The profile that has emerged of David Headley, a U.S. citizen accused of plotting revenge against a Danish newspaper, suggests a man pulled between two cultures.

The explosion on Saturday was unusual in that it involved a large mine operated by one of China’s biggest state-owned companies.

The Americans hope the militias will encourage an increasingly demoralized Afghan population to take a stake in the war against the Taliban.

The investigation of an underground group known as Ergenekon has strained ties between a secular elite and a growing population of observant Muslims.

A group of start-up marketers see value in getting regular people to send a sentence or two of text to their friends and admirers.

Prosecutors asked an Italian court to hand down life sentences to an American student and her former boyfriend for their alleged roles in a fatal stabbing.

The Vatican pulled out all the stops Saturday at a meeting that aimed to revive the age-old ties between the Catholic Church and artists.

President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia warned leaders of his party that they must learn to win elections honestly if it is to survive.

A majority of the country’s young people think the nation is on the wrong course, and they are divided between a preference for democracy and Islamic law, a report says.

The authorities arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of providing logistical support and financing.