Mexican doctors and hospital workers gathered in Tijuana in November to voice their concerns about violence in the city.

The Mumbai police identified a second Pakistani terrorist as an engineer of the attacks, as gruesome new evidence emerged of mistreatment of hostages.

Israeli soldiers and police officers forced Jewish settlers from a contested building in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday. Some settlers then went on an angry rampage, and Israel declared the southern West Bank off limits to nonresidents.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday, during a snowstorm in Ottawa, that he would suspend Parliament.

The plan includes aid to the country’s ailing auto industry, which employs 10 percent of the French work force, and sets aside money for the construction industry.

Aleksy II led a revival of the church after Communism and built ties to the Kremlin under Vladimir V. Putin.

A woman attended to a child as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia took questions during a nationally televised town hall style session in Moscow on Thursday.

A man was treated Thursday after being wounded in a bomb attack in front of a cafe two miles outside of Baquba, Iraq.

A Danish warship on patrol to thwart piracy in the Gulf of Aden ended up rescuing seven of its presumed prey when its crew found suspected Somali pirates adrift.

The unanimous ruling held that Britain’s policy of gathering and storing the fingerprints and DNA of all criminal suspects was a violation of the human right to privacy.

The nation’s health minister appealed for outside help a day after police attacked protesting medical workers.

Sunni rebels who were believed to have abducted 16 soldiers near the Pakistani border have reportedly killed all their captives.

An Argentine-registered vessel carrying 82 passengers and 40 crew members suffered a puncture in two diesel fuel tanks.

King Bhumibol Adulyadej did not appear on Thursday to deliver his traditional birthday address at a highly charged political moment.

At least two people were killed in a suspected suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.

A Turkish court sentenced a Kurdish activist to 10 years in prison for what prosecutors said was “making propaganda for a terrorist organization,” the state-run Anatolian News Agency reported. The activist, Leyla Zana, is a former lawmaker who spent a decade in jail in the 1990s for what Turkish authorities said were links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., the separatist group that has been fighting the Turkish military in the country’s southeast for decades. Ms. Zana was released in 2004, and was convicted on Thursday for saying, among other things, that the P.K.K.’s struggle was for “freedom and democracy.”.

The new governor of the turbulent province of Kandahar said he had been abruptly fired by the central government, but gave no reason.

The superstar polar bear is now fully grown, at 440 pounds, and has gotten too big for his enclosure at the Berlin Zoo.

Interior Minister Roberto Maroni proposed a moratorium on the building of mosques in the wake of arrests on Tuesday of two Moroccans suspected of plotting terrorist attacks.

A major disarmament conference concluded in Oslo on Thursday with 94 countries having signed a treaty that commits them never to use, produce, sell or stockpile cluster bombs, whose remnants have been known to explode months or years after conflicts have ended. Several major powers, including the United States, refused to sign, but Britain, France, Germany and most other NATO members did, as did Afghanistan, in what observers said was a surprise show of independence from the United States. Conference organizers said several additional countries were expected to join the list in the near future at the United Nations.

Children played in the Khmer Rouge canals in Baray, Cambodia.

A study of genetic signatures has provided new evidence of the mass conversions of Sephardic Jews and Muslims to Catholicism in the 14th and 15th centuries.