Japan's population will shrink by a staggering 30% by 2060, according to a new estimate by the country's government.

The U.N. Security Council will take up a draft resolution this week that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power.

Pakistan has not yet decided whether to try a Pakistani doctor for high treason for assisting the United States in gathering intelligence ahead of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, a senior Pakistani government official said Monday.

A jury in Kingston, Ontario, resumes its deliberations Sunday in the “honor” murder trial of three members of a Montreal family who are accused of killing four relatives.

Top International Atomic Energy Agency officials arrived in Iran, state media reported, after the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog expressed fresh concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions

The head of an advisory board to the Arab League called Sunday for the withdrawal of observers from Syria, claiming the mission has allowed Syrian officials to continue a brutal crackdown on protesters.

Egypt's ruling military council has moved up the scheduled elections for the upper house of parliament by nearly three weeks, with voting now scheduled to start in late January, the state news agency MENA reported Sunday.

Israeli and Palestinian representatives will meet in Amman, Jordan, on Tuesday in an effort to relaunch negotiations between the two sides after more than a year of deadlock, Jordanian state media reported Sunday.

The man Chilean authorities accuse of sparking a wildfire that has consumed more than 31,000 acres of a national park said Sunday that he is innocent.

Thousands of fighters attacked the remote town of Pibor in South Sudan, even as the United Nations deployed peacekeeping troops to the area amid reports of an imminent attack, a military official said Sunday.