At least 49 people were killed and more than 600 people injured when a train plowed into a platform at a Buenos Aires station, state media reports.

Thirty five people are reported killed in Syria, including two Western journalists, as world leaders try to put pressure on Bashar al-Assad's regime to halt the brutal crackdown.

A series of blasts last week in Thailand that set off accusations between Iran and Israel involved bombs disguised as radio sets, police said Wednesday.

Twenty-seven days. That's how long it has been between the 19th and 20th Republican presidential debates.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will put her future in the hands of her Labor Party parliamentary colleagues next Monday, she told reporters Thursday in Adelaide.

Speculation and messages of support surged in Venezuela Wednesday, a day after President Hugo Chavez announced he would travel to Cuba for surgery.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, was released Wednesday from police custody in northern France after undergoing two days of questioning about an alleged prostitution ring.

Four more bodies were found aboard the shipwrecked Costa Concordia, Italian civil protection officials said Wednesday, more than a month after the cruise liner struck rocks off the coast of Italy.