The U.K. police arrested three more men on Saturday in connection with the gruesome murder of 25-year-old British soldier Lee Rigby. They also arrested one suspect's friend minutes after he gave an interview to the BBC, though he's allegedly not connected to Rigby's investigation.
The emotional divide between increasingly ugly new accusations and apparently unflinching politicians expanded on Tuesday, as thousands of protestors took to the Indian state of Goa over reports that seven-year-old girl was raped in a school restroom.
With more and more defectors heading south, the North Korean regime spent $1.66 million on over 16,000 border-security cameras in the first 11 months of 2012, as it continues to build a spy network on its own citizens.
Alan, the adorable dachshund who became a social media celebrity, was killed in a revolving door accident at Vogue House, the London home of Tatler magazine.
Jeffrey Toobin on Obama's gay marriage stance, David A. Bell on France's domestic malaise, Matthew Yglesias on dueling hedge-fund managers, Dana Milbank on Obama's new bad-cop routine, and Mark Frazier on an aging China.
Things are growing tense in the Pakistani capital on Tuesday as the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the nation's prime minister, even as thousands of demonstrators descended on Parliament looking to bring down the government.
In his first media appearance since visiting President Obama in Washington, Hamid Karzai announced that the United States had agreed to give his country a fleet of drones.
The United Nations wants to remind everyone that while the world was busy worrying about North Korea's terrible nuclear missiles they were ignoring North Korea's even more terrible human rights abuses.
The former Prime Minister of Italy argued (not so persuasively) that he would be too busy campaigning to pay attention to a child prostitution trial. A judge on Monday thought otherwise.
Antonio Villaraigosa on immigration reform, George Packer on Southern Republicans, Jennifer Welsh on France's intervention in Mali, Chris Cillizza on the Senate losing its lions, and Gary Younge on Obama's Iraq amnesia.
France continued its attack on Islamist rebels in northern Mali today as the nation suddenly finds itself taking the lead in the war against al Qaeda terrorists in Africa.
As you may have heard, Prince William and Kate Middleton are having a baby. And now we have a due date!
Chinese officials have shut down factories and ordered cars off the roads to try and save their capital city after spending three straight days under a cloud of toxic smog.
The scene in Bulomarer, Somalia on late Friday night was like the end of Zero Dark Thirty gone terribly awry, as a clandestine hostage extraction mission turned into an hours-long shootout.
Hosni Mubarak will be retried by an Egyptian court. The former ruler's life sentence appeal was granted by an Egyptian court, though this time it seems the prosecutors might have new evidence that could give them the death penalty they were looking for.
Police have arrested six men after a woman riding a bus in India was gang raped Friday evening, less than a month since the death of an Indian woman who was gang raped and brutally beaten while riding a bus sparked protests and calls from reformed rape laws.
Under current federal funding guidelines, international HIV/AIDS programs have to adopt anti-prostitution policies if they want U.S. money. But in taking up a new case Friday, the Supreme Court decided to put that mandate to the First Amendment test.
As President Obama danced around questions about troop levels, he and Afghan President Hamid Karzai continued to press their message at this afternoon's press briefing — American soldiers are about to be in support mode, and the withdrawal is coming... soon enough.
In an attempt to defend the troubled government from Islamic extremists threatening to bring it down, French military forces have entered the West African country.
In yet another sign that the opposition to Bashar al-Assad's military may be able to fend for themselves, rebel forces in Syria say they've taken full control of the Taftanaz air base.
Alex Koppelman on Joe Biden's gun talks, Kimberley Strassel on gun control roadblocks, Paul Krugman on why we should mint the trillion-dollar coin, Stephen Carter on why we shouldn't, Eleanor Clift on Obama's chief of staff search.
A report on the sexual abuse allegations made against ex-BBC host Jimmy Savile found that the beloved TV star was accused of sexually abusing more than 450 people during his lifetime, yet was never formally charged with any crimes.
After a series of unrelated bombings, more than 100 people were reportedly killed and over 200 reportedly injured in Pakistan Thursday.
Vladimir Franz has more face tattoos than Lil Wayne, but that hasn't hurt his poll numbers. The odd man out in the Czech presidential race has earned a sizable chunk of the vote by calling out ruling parties on corruption.
Three deadly incidents in last five days have raised fears of a new major conflict between India and Pakistan as the their armies continue to challenge each other in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Amy Davidson on the platinum coin, Edward Kleinbard on Obama's plan B for the debt ceiling, Ezra Klein on Joe Biden in 2016, Meghan Daum on Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Liel Leibovitz on violent video games.
After suggesting that his defense would center on blaming the New Delhi gang-rape victim for her own rape, Manohar Lal Sharma is now claiming that his clients were tortured into giving a confession.
We're using past tense because, unfortunately, the snake did not make it to its final destination this morning.
A dozen killer whales are stuck under a large sheet of sea ice off the coast of Canada, and officials and scientists are scrambling to find a way to lead them to open water. (Update: They're free!)
A car bomb exploded in the Israel city of Tel Aviv on Thursday, but despite the obvious assumption, police say the explosion was not an act of terrorism.
Three members of a Turkish separatist group were found dead in Paris this morning in what police say was a politically motivated execution.
Hundreds of brushfires across the entire Australian continent and Tasmania are now so widespread they're bing monitored from space, and pictures from the ground are equally terrifying.
Tim Weiner on John Brennan, Jonathan Chait on elusive centrist debt solutions, J. Michael Cole on Japan-China hostilities, David Hirst on a possible Kurdish state, and Leonid Bershidsky on Gerard Depardieu taking Russia.
Three men who police say brutally raped 23-year-old Jyoti Singh Pandey on a bus in New Delhi — after which one of them allegedly tried to run her over with it — will plead not guilty to charges of rape and murder.
After previously suggesting that some American forces could remain in Afghanistan for decades to come, the Pentagon says it's considering the possibility that no U.S. forces could be stationed there after 2014.
A prisoner swap between the Syrian government and rebels forces reveals what Bashar al-Assad's thinks the life of one of his own citizens is worth: About 2 percent of an Iranian's.
After years of suggesting that his kidnapping was a terrorist plot, U.S. officials now believe that individuals working with the government of Iran delivered pictures of Robert Levinson to his family.
If Robert Griffin III's knee was the first casualty of the Redskins offseason, consider this the second.
As Bill Richardson and Eric Schmidt's excellent adventure to the Internet Black Hole known as North Korea carries on, they visited some of the only people in the country who are allowed access to the Internet.
Two men, now designated by the State Department as terrorists, escaped from a prison in Kober, Sudan, but were never found.
Emerging details and unexpected endorsements have ratcheted up both sides of the debate for what looks to be a major fight over the future of gun legislation. The questions now: What might the new laws look like? And how soon can anything really happen, if at all?
David Brooks on Chuck Hagel, Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly on guns, Ramesh Ponnuru on the debt ceiling, Simon Tisdall on Syria, and Michael Specter on genetically modified crops.
This deep purple is a brand-new shade that the Australian bureau of meteorology was forced to add to its heat index because their country is, you know, kind of on fire.
The only suspect to be arrested over the Benghazi embassy attack was released from jail on Tuesday after authorities declared that they did not have enough evidence to hold him further.
If you believe in unicorns, you can believe the latest fairy tale to emerge from Pyongyang.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson have arrived.Whether they have any chance of freeing an American citizen named Kenneth Bae, well, they're not getting their hopes up.
Peter Beinart on Chuck Hagel, Doyle McManus on John Boehner, Chris Cillizza on Washington's bargaining problem, Kostas Vaxevanis on Greek oligarchs, and Mark Buchanan on inequality and crime.
In an interview with CNN this weekend, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi reiterated earlier calls for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down, and even agreed with the idea that he should be tried for his crimes.
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