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The U.N. Security Council has begun discussing the possibility of deploying a U.N. peacekeeping force in Mali, once Malian and French forces have stabilized the country.

Sarah, age 7, carries vegetable oil, part of her family’s food allowance.

The Bulgarian government says Hezbollah was responsible for the bombing of a tourist bus near a Black Sea port city last year in which five Israelis and one Bulgarian were killed. The accusation implicates a group whose political wing is a major force in Lebanon’s government.

With another North Korean nuclear test looming, the country’s official website, Uriminzokkiri, has posted an unusual video on its YouTube channel showing what appears to be a U.S. city in flames after some kind of attack from space.

China says it is willing to play a role in peace talks between the government of Burma and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), which is seeking greater autonomy.

Two senior Islamist militants have been captured in northern Mali, including a top leader of radical group Ansar Dine.

Japan's government is indicating it is preparing for all contingencies that would result from North Korea conducting a third nuclear test.

The Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Halil Yurdakul Yigitguden, speaking at the first preparatory meeting of the 21st OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum, Vienna, 4 February 2013.

Syrian rights activists say government forces have bombarded a rebel-held district of the northern city of Aleppo, demolishing a residential building and killing at least 16 people