A hijacked supertanker carrying up to $100 million worth of crude oil -- the largest vessel seized to date in an escalating regional piracy crisis -- was believed to have anchored off Somalia Tuesday, its operator said.

A man who was detained during Chile's "dirty war" in 1973 and declared dead in 1995 showed up in his old hometown very much alive last week, a human rights group in Santiago has announced.

Former President Bill Clinton's international business dealings, global foundation and penchant for going off script could present a significant obstacle to Hillary Clinton becoming secretary of state, observers say.

Retreating government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo are fighting local militiamen deep in rebel-held territory, witnesses said Tuesday.

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The NATO-led alliance in Afghanistan said its troops fired at militants inside Pakistan in coordination with Pakistani soldiers.

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Yahoo! announced Monday that the search is on for the Internet giant's next CEO.

Up to 2,000 people attacked a local Communist Party headquarters in northwestern China's Gansu province early Tuesday, state-run media reported.

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A Chinese-born U.S. physicist and businessman pleaded guilty Monday to bribing Chinese space program officials and illegally providing U.S. space launch data to the Beijing government.

Indian police clashed with separatist groups as voters went to the polls in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday.

The Colombian government declared a state of emergency Monday, allowing officials to take over businesses that have used pyramid schemes to steal millions of dollars from 3 million investors.

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Nearly half a million public employees went on strike throughout Chile on Monday over a wage dispute.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Tuesday with the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to discuss deepening ties between Washington and Tripoli, senior State Department officials said Monday.

The Iraqi parliament on Monday began debate on a security pact that calls for all U.S. troops to leave the country by the end of 2011.

In a further indication of the devastating impact of the global economic downturn, Japanese government officials announced Monday that the world's second largest economy had slipped into recession.

Pirates in the Arabian Sea have attacked a Saudi-owned oil tanker with 25 crew aboard, according to a statement issued by the Bahrain-based U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet.

Many people think of tuberculosis as being a disease from the past. The truth is far from it: Tuberculosis is mutating into dangerous new strains for which there is no known cure.