Prosecutors' agents have searched businesses linked to former Salvadoran President Tony Saca, looking for evidence in a corruption case involving the alleged embezzlement of about $246 million during his 2004-2009 administration.
A teenage boy was fatally shot in Haiti on Tuesday amid protests over delays in aid distribution after a Category 4 hurricane pummeled the Caribbean country last month.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon fired the commander of the peacekeeping force in South Sudan on Tuesday after an independent investigation sharply criticized the military response to deadly attacks in July on a UN compound housing 27,000 displaced people.
North Korea is preparing to launch another intermediate-range ballistic missile in the next 24 to 72 hours, two US officials with knowledge of the latest intelligence assessment tell Fox News.
Pope Francis has ruled out women's ordination, saying the "last word" on the question was delivered by St. John Paul II and that no changes are foreseen.
Nigeria's Senate has refused to consider President Muhammadu Buhari's request to pursue foreign loans of $30 billion over three years to dig this West African nation out of recession.
For the first time in years, bells rang out on the roof of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, which was feed from the Islamic State's grip last week after an intense fight.
Niger Delta leaders say Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has held inconclusive talks aimed at halting attacks that have slashed the country's oil production.
Human rights activists and politicians in Pakistan have banded together to successfully secure the release of a 9-year-old Christian boy and his mother who were jailed last week and could have faced the death penalty after they were accused of burning the Quran.
