Thousands of members of the British Armed Forces took part in a parade and flypast at Windsor Castle Saturday as part of celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne.
A miner in northeast China was rescued Saturday after being buried underground for 17 days, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
A car explosion rattled the city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, opposition activists and the Syrian regime said.
Concerns about whether debt-laden Greece will be forced to pull out of the eurozone, and what that would mean for a weakened European economy is the first topic on Saturday's agenda at the Group of Eight summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama, a senior administration official said.
Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese activist who ignited a diplomatic frenzy when he escaped house arrest, flies to the U.S. to begin a new chapter in his life as a student.
At least one girl is killed and another six students are injured, two of them seriously, following a bomb blast outside a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi.
The future is on hold, at least for a couple of days.
The Olympic torch began its 70-day, 8,000-mile journey around Britain Saturday from Land's End in Cornwall, with three-time Olympic gold medal winner Ben Ainslie the first to carry the torch.
A sergeant accused of killing five comrades at a combat stress clinic at a U.S. base in Iraq more than three years ago is mentally fit to stand trial on charges of premeditated murder, the Army said.
Spain's government calls for calm a day after rating agency Moody's downgraded 16 Spanish banks in the latest sign of distress in Europe.
A confidential U.N. report reveals Iran is exporting arms to the Syrian government in violation of a ban on weapons sales, the same day President Bashar al-Assad blamed the violence in his country on the work of foreign-backed fighters.
Raising fears of a rift between Paris and Berlin, France's new finance minister says his country may refuse to ratify the European pact on budget discipline without plans for growth.
Seventies disco queen Donna Summer died Thursday in Florida, a representative said.
Greece handed over the Olympic flame to Britain in an elaborate ceremony Thursday, 71 days before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The remaining plaintiff in the sexual battery lawsuit against John Travolta fired his lawyer, bringing an end to the case, the lawyer told CNN on Thursday.
Iran has threatened legal action against Google for not labeling the Persian Gulf on its maps.
A New York medical examiner will begin an autopsy Thursday on Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was found dead at her Westchester County home.
