An Iranian court has released on a $300,000 bail a Newsweek journalist with dual Iranian-Canadian citizenship, arrested in the wake of the disputed presidential elections in June.
// Oct. 18, 2009 - 00:10 GMT
A Rio de Janeiro security official pledged a harsh response over the recent gun battle in one of the city's shanty towns, in which a police helicopter was downed on Saturday.
// Oct. 18, 2009 - 00:57 GMT
The Progress-M03M space freighter docked with the International Space Station in an automatic mode on Sunday.
// Oct. 18, 2009 - 01:53 GMT
At least 80 environmental activists were detained in Nottinghamshire, U.K., during protests near one of the country's largest coal-fired power stations.
// Oct. 18, 2009 - 02:24 GMT
At least 14 people were killed and 38 injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a car in Venezuela's western state of Barinas.
// Oct. 18, 2009 - 03:03 GMT
A U.S. pilot, who went missing when two fighter jets collided over the Atlantic, is believed to be killed instantly on impact with water.
// Oct. 18, 2009 - 04:09 GMT
One of America's wealthiest men charged as part of an insider-trading case surfaced in a separate probe into allegedly raising funds for a Sri Lankan terrorist group, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
// Oct. 18, 2009 - 05:45 GMT
The first Moscow Metro passenger train set off on its maiden journey on October 15, 1934. It made its trial trip from the Komsomolskaya station to Sokolniki. Since then the Joseph Stalin trains have made way for more comfortable Rusich trains with air conditioning.
// Oct. 18, 2009 - 05:45 GMT
Chinese authorities have started resettling 330,000 people in central China in a project to divert water from its major rivers in the south to the country's north, official news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.
// Oct. 18, 2009 - 06:53 GMT
Canadian police have detained a ship suspected of carrying over 70 illegal migrants into its Pacific coast, local media reported on Sunday.
// Oct. 18, 2009 - 07:32 GMT