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Protesters are planning to demonstrate Saturday on the one-year anniversary of the detention of three American hikers seized by Iranian forces near the Iraqi border.

Brazil's president has offered asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, state-run media reported Saturday.

The House of Representatives passed legislation Friday which would lift the current $75 million liability cap for oil spills while imposing new safety standards for offshore drilling.

Authorities are hunting for three convicted murderers who escaped from a Kingman, Arizona, prison on Friday night.

The signal of one of Mexico's largest television networks faded to black for almost an hour as a symbolic protest of violence against journalists.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has deployed troops to areas near the Colombian border and says he is reviewing plans for a potential war as tension between the two nations rises.

The Army private charged with leaking an airstrike video and suspected of leaking documents to WikiLeaks is in solitary confinement, officials tell CNN.

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake hit southern Iran on Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, a day after another moderate quake in the country's northeast left 170 people injured.

President Barack Obama hopes embattled New York congressman Charlie Rangel can end his career with dignity.

At least 25 people have been killed and thousands left homeless by wildfires sweeping through western Russia, authorities said Saturday.

The data recorders for the plane that crashed and killed 152 people in Pakistan has been found, a government official said Saturday.

Hundreds of people died when floodwaters swept away their mud homes in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The death toll from flood is now at least 800.

A senior Hamas member was killed during Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, Hamas security forces said Saturday.

Firefighters continued to battle a wildfire Saturday as flames encroached on power lines that provide electricity throughout the region.

Thousands of people are expected to gather Saturday for a memorial service a week after a stampede at a German music festival left 21 people dead.

Fidel Castro on Friday accused the United States of "torturing" a Cuban agent imprisoned there, saying Cuba is being pressured to release its spies.

The United Nations Security Council has renewed the mandate of its mission in the Darfur region of Sudan for another 12 months.

A federal appeals court has denied Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's request for an expedited hearing on the state's controversial immigration law. Instead, the case has been scheduled for a hearing during the first week in November.

Israel launched an airstrike near a former presidential compound in Gaza City late Friday, according to a CNN stringer at the scene. The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately confirm the strike.

In a room thousands of miles from her prison cell in northeastern Iran, the fear that has gripped Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for years was clear and almost palpable.