SEOUL — North Korea's authoritative National Defense Commission says there should be unconditional high level talks with the United States. This comes following previous vows by Pyongyang to attack the United States and South Korea with nuclear ... Read More...

FILE - Firefighters view the aftermath of a building collapse, Thursday, June 6, 2013, in Philadelphia. An official says an inspector who surveyed a Philadelphia building before it collapsed last week, killing six people, has committed suicide. Deputy Mayor ... Read More...

Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- Authorities increased security around a Pretoria hospital where former South African leader Nelson Mandela remained in intensive care, three days after being rushed there with a recurring lung infection. Police set up gates and ... Read More...

(CNN) -- Self-defense or murder? That's the question at the heart of the trial of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Monday marks the start of jury selection in Seminole County, Florida, where Martin ... Read More...

France's government is investigating high-tech methods to prevent terrorists from using any weapons that Western governments send to Syrian rebels, such as gadgetry that tracks the movement of anti-aircraft missiles or shuts them down from a distance, ... Read More...

An Irish-born woman has been nominated by President Barack Obama as the next US ambassador to the United Nations. Samantha Power was born in Dublin in 1970 and lived there until she was nine, when her family moved to the US. The ex-White House ... Read More...

Pakistan's new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for an end to US drone strikes in his first address since being re-elected to the post. "We respect the sovereignty of others and they should respect our sovereignty and independence. This campaign must ... Read More...

Stunning photographs of daredevil Valery Rozov's record-breaking BASE jump off the world's highest mountain. Russian extreme sports star Valery Rozov, 48, scaled 7,220 metres of Mount Everest, only to leap off it, making it the world's highest BASE ... Read More...