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Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende calls the newly signed cease-fire in South Sudan "very shaky," but says it is possible for the country to get back on track.

Anti-government protesters have seized the Ukrainian justice ministry in Kyiv, after rejecting President Viktor Yanukovych's offer to name opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk as prime minister, and former boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko as his deputy.

A look at some of the destruction in Homs (March 2012).

UN peacekeepers in South Sudan securing the entrance to their Juba compound.

This week Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe compared his country's tense relationship with China to that of England and Germany before the outbreak of World War I.

Negotiators for the South Sudan government and opposition forces signed two agreements Thursday to end nearly six weeks of conflict that have claimed thousands of lives and displaced more than half a million.

Egyptian authorities said a car bomb that exploded Friday near security headquarters in Cairo has claimed the lives of at least three people and left 35 others wounded. A few hours later, another blast across the Nile River outside a Metro station in the neighborhood of Dokki killed one person and wounded several others.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressing a lunch of his MDG Advocacy Group in Davos, Switzerland.

Thai anti-government demonstrators in Bangkok remained defiant on the first day of a state of emergency in the capital. Analysts say fears of further violence and uncertainty remain in the lead up to elections on February 2.