Honduras gets ready to vote for a new president on November 29 in an election overshadowed by a military coup that toppled elected president Manuel Zelaya and plunged the impoverished nation into ...
Thousands of students at California's top public universities staged demonstrations against a 32 percent rise in tuition fees prompted in part by the state's budget crisis during the recession.
A herd of elephants goes on a rampage, destroying a tea garden in Doars region of India's eastern West Bengal state.
An overloaded ferry sinks in bad weather off Indonesia's Riau islands.
The Maersk Alabama cargo ship captured by Somali pirates in April arrives in Kenya after foiling a second attempt.
Iranian armed forces launch air defence war games to show off the country's deterrent capabilities in the face of pressure from the West over its nuclear programme.