Rescue efforts from the floods that have killed more than 800 people could become more difficult on Monday, with meteorologists predicting more rain.

Brazil's president has offered asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, state media says. Iranian authorities say the sentence is on hold.

An explosion of an apparent land mine that drifted from North Korea killed one fisherman and injured another, police said Sunday.

Protesters held rallies around the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of what many called the "unfair" detention of three Americans seized by Iranian forces.

At least 25 people have been killed and thousands left homeless by wildfires sweeping through Russia, authorities said.

Russian authorities arrested at least 135 opposition protesters -- including a leading Kremlin critic -- at rallies demanding freedom of assembly, state media said.

The data recorders for the plane that crashed and killed 152 people in Pakistan has been found, a government official said Saturday.

A Somali militant group wanting to rid the war-torn country of an al Qaeda-linked movement welcomed Saturday the African Union's decision last week to expand its peacekeeping presence in the country.

China's first law to be initiated against the vastly growing online gaming industry is set to take effect Sunday, state-run media reported.

In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a non-denominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.