BAGHDAD, May 16: Two car bombs exploded in sprawling Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital on Thursday morning, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 30, officials said. ...

WASHINGTON, May 15: The Pentagon’s biggest bunker-busting bomb has been upgraded with one task in mind: taking out suspected Iranian nuclear facilities built deep under the mountains of the Islamic Republic’s northern region. ...

LONDON, May 15: A group of seven men including five Pakistanis has been convicted by a jury for subjecting girls to years of rape, torture and sexual violence in Oxford, local media reported. ...

NEW YORK, May 15: Iran will chair a United Nations conference on disarmament in Geneva this month, raising eyebrows from Western powers skeptical of Iran’s own nuclear ambitions. ...

KABUL, May 15: The United States is building a military base in Afghanistan near the border with the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...

WASHINGTON, May 15: The US military has conducted a test flight of an assassination drone as large as a fighter jet off the deck of an American aircraft carrier, pointing to plans to fly the unmanned aircraft from anywhere in the world. ...

JAKARTA, May 15: Rescuers say at least four people have been killed after a tunnel at a US-owned gold and copper mine collapsed in eastern Indonesia. ...

COLOMBO, May 15: A cyclone caused by a tropical depression in the Bay of Bengal killed at least seven people in Sri Lanka, government officials said on Tuesday. ...

BAGHDAD, May 15: Gunmen using silenced weapons attacked at least nine liquor stores in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 12 people, police and medical sources said. ...

TEHRAN, May 14: Iran’s constitutional watchdog said it will seek possible charges against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly violating rules by accompanying his chief adviser to the election registry office the previous day. A conviction could bring a maximum punishment of six months in jail or 74 lashes. ...