Some 1,600 survivors from Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami were whisked to safety by a Navy warship Wednesday, providing much-needed relief for a lucky few after five days marked by shortages and grief. The KRI Makassar docked at the devastated city of Palu in central Sulawesi to take...

Russian senators on Wednesday approved a deeply controversial bill to raise the state pension age as the Kremlin indicated President Vladimir Putin could sign it into law soon. The upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, passed the bill that had sparked rare street protests...

French career criminal Redoine Faïd, who made a Hollywood-esque helicopter jailbreak in July, was arrested in the Oise region north of Paris early Wednesday, according to French officials. A seasoned armed robber, nicknamed the "jailbreak king", Faïd was apprehended in the northern...

At least seven Palestinians were injured Tuesday when the Israeli army fired on peaceful demonstrators in Gaza. The victims were wounded by live bullets, according to information gathered from a local hospital. Four of them were injured in the eastern part of Jabalia camp while...