Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tells The Associated Press that reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula is one of the most serious issues facing the world because the impact of North Korea's use of nuclear weapons would be far greater than the casualties in Syria and other conflicts.
The suicide bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan on Aug. 30 highlighted the expanding threat of an ethnic Uighur militant group called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement — and the growing Chinese involvement in Syria and Afghanistan to combat it.
A look at some of the key points in an "arrangement" announced by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, aimed at halting fighting in Syria and moving toward a political transition after 5-1/2 years of combat between President Bashar Assad's forces and opposition rebels: WHAT THE ARRANGEMENT SAYS A nationwide cease-fire by Assad's forces and the U.S.-backed opposition is set to begin across Syria at sundown Monday.
U.S. aviation safety officials took the extraordinary step late Thursday of warning airline passengers not to turn on or charge a new-model Samsung smartphone during flights following numerous reports of the devices catching fire.
Police are looking for two men in connection with the death of a 19-year-old Canadian woman found savagely stabbed to death in Los Angeles in 1969 near the site of the most notorious Manson family killings.
The Latest on the U.S. Open (all times local): 7:15 Gael Monfils says he was just trying to change up his strategy against Novak Djokovic, and he's sorry John McEnroe thinks that's "unprofessional." McEnroe, a commentator for ESPN, accused Monfils of not giving his full effort after falling behind 5-0 in the four-set, semifinal loss to the top-seeded Djokovic on Friday, at one calling him "unprofessional" in "one of the greatest lack-of-effort matches in the semifinal of a major that I've ever seen." Told about McEnroe's comments in his post-match interview, Monfils says he's "very sad to learn that such a legend (would) criticize me, because at the end what I can say to John is, 'You know, John, I want to be the best.