Sitting across a narrow channel, a mere 10-minute water taxi ride from its energetic sister island of St. Kitts, laid-back Nevis remains unspoiled, with no casinos or all-inclusives, nor any mega cruise ships calling on its mere 36 square miles.
North Korea has issued a forceful response to the deployment of a US naval strike group to the region, saying it would counter "reckless acts of aggression" with "whatever methods the US wants to take."
British scientists have tested samples from victims of last week's chemical attack in Syria and claim to have evidence that Sarin gas, or a similar substance, was used in the bombing.
Three weeks before voters head to the polls to choose the next president of France, all 11 first-round candidates lined up in a large semicircle for a nationally televised debate that quickly dissolved into a cacophony of insults and shouts that steamed rapidly out of control.
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Nuri Sahin has said he will never forget the faces of his teammates as the Dortmund team bus was hit in a bomb attack Tuesday en route to a Champions League quarterfinal.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that there had been "serious failings" in the Russian authorities' handling of a 2004 terrorist attack on a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, where more than 330 people were killed.
The UN Security Council (UNSC) failed yet again on Wednesday to pass a resolution condemning last week's chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of people in Syria.
