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World leaders have paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai who passed away while having treatment for ovarian cancer on Monday.

Women in Saudi Arabia will be allowed to vote and run for office in future municipal elections, King Abdullah announced Sunday.

Since taking up his post as America's new ambassador to China, Gary Locke has become an increasingly popular figure among ordinary Chinese.

Since taking up his post as America's new ambassador to China, Gary Locke has become an increasingly popular figure among ordinary Chinese.

Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel laureate Wangai Maathai died Monday after an unspecified illness.

Safely back on American soil, freed Americans Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer recounted their two years behind the walls of an Iranian prison. Bauer said their espionage trial was a “total sham.”

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro ended a long writing hiatus Monday, penning a three-page essay printed in state media slamming U.S. President Barack Obama's speech to the United Nations last week.

Officials with Libya's transitional government announced Sunday they have located a suspected mass grave thought to hold the remains of 1,270 people, victims of a 1996 massacre at Abu Salim prison.

Newly returned from three months out of the country, Yemen's president addressed his people Sunday, blaming "terrorists" for the deadly violence at anti-government protests.

In the sandy arena of Catalonia's La Monumental bullring, the traditional bugle signaled the end of an era Sunday as Barcelona hosted its last bullfight.