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Sons and daughters of British monarchs will have an equal right to the throne under changes to the United Kingdom's succession laws agreed to Friday, British Prime Minister David Cameron said.

A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Peru on Friday, some 32 miles south-southwest of Ica, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs is facing a military court martial for the murder of three Afghan civilians. He is the highest ranking soldier charged in what prosecutors say was a rogue "kill squad."

Robin Lim is helping thousands of low-income women in Indonesia have a healthy pregnancy and birth.

Guantanamo detainees tell CNN how they were tortured by U.S. interrogators into making false confessions.

The International Criminal Court is having "informal conversations" about the surrender of Moammar Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam, who is wanted for crimes against humanity, the court's chief prosecutor said Friday.

In South Africa, activists are trying to get 'corrective rape,' where men rape lesbians believing it can turn them straight, made a hate crime.

Tunisia imposed a night curfew Friday in the central city where the nation's uprisings started following post election violence a day earlier, state media reported.

All areas of Bangkok will be flooded Thursday, experiencing levels between 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) to 1 meter (3.2 feet), Thai Prime MInister Yingluck Shinawatra said, a day before the Chao Phraya River threatened to rise over embankments.

Thailand is facing its worst flooding since 1942, with hundreds dead, more than 9 million affected and more than a third of the nation's provinces at least partially flooded.