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

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.

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.

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

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.

President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela heaped praise on Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, describing him as a “revolutionary fighter.”

Benedict XVI and Archbishop Rowan Williams met a month after the Vatican announced a new Anglican rite within the Roman Catholic Church.

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.

Sri Lanka plans to release refugees still in government camps where they have been detained since the country’s civil war ended six months ago, a top official said.

The air defense war games reflected a concern in Tehran that Israel could carry out its threats to strike militarily.

The authorities arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of providing logistical support and money for a terrorist strike in India.

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

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

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 suspects were being pursued by the police after weapons were reported dumped along a road.

Welcome to the Age of Metrics - or to the End of Instinct.

Hamas announced Saturday evening that it had reached an agreement with other militant groups in Gaza to stop firing rockets at southern Israeli towns to prevent retaliatory attacks.