A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Iran on Friday, injuring 110 people, according to state-run media.

Israel launched an airstrike near a former presidential compound in Gaza City late Friday, according to a CNN stringer at the scene. The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately confirm the strike.

In a room thousands of miles from her prison cell in northeastern Iran, the fear that has gripped Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for years was clear and almost palpable.

A Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow by his adoptive mother in the United States has been returned to an orphanage, an attorney of the World Association for Children and Parents said Friday.

Three U.S. soldiers were killed in two separate blasts in southern Afghanistan, making July the deadliest month for American forces since the war started nine years ago.

Wildfires in central Russia have destroyed around 1,000 homes, left five people dead, and prompted Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to call on local officials to resign, Russian news agencies reported Friday. President Dmitry Medvedev has called out the army to help.

Uganda has charged three people in connection with the bomb blasts that erupted in an Ethiopian restaurant and a rugby center in Kampala earlier this month, killing some 76 people, a government official said Friday.

Police have found the mummified body of a man believed to have been Tokyo's oldest man, who may have in fact died some 30 yeas ago, officials at the city's Adachi Ward said.

A French woman who admitted to giving birth to and smothering eight babies over a 17-year period was secretive but always supportive of her family, two of her daughters said in a local newspaper report published Friday.

The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia arrived in Lebanon on Friday, a visit intended to ease a heatening political crisis in the religiously diverse and combustible nation.

Kenya's Prime Minister says his country probably won't commit troops to an expanded African Union force for Somalia, but he's leaving the door open to "review."

The head of Iran's atomic energy agency says the country's desire for enriched uranium could be met by an outside source, semi-official media reported Friday.

A South African ballet dancer from a poor township outside Cape Town has been given the chance to train in the United States -- all because of a documentary film, and an email from a caring viewer.

Six thousand matching black, silver and blue bicycles hit the streets of London as the city launches its ambitious public bike sharing scheme.

A bomb blast killed four soldiers and injured 41 others in northeastern India on Friday morning, authorities said.

Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, a top leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was killed Thursday during a military raid in a suburb of Guadalajara, Mexico, sources with knowledge of the operation told CNN en Espanol.

The Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez has closed to "review its security posture," the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said Thursday in a statement.

The man overseeing the federal response to the Gulf oil disaster will meet New Orleans parish presidents Thursday to outline the plans after the well is permanently sealed.

Every time the automatic doors at the outpatient ward of Islamabad's main hospital slid open, they revealed a thick white mist lingering inside.

Arab leaders gave the Palestinian Authority Thursday the green light for direct talks with Israel, a move that prompted the Israeli prime minister to say his country is ready for the face-to-face talks as well.