Former president Manuel Zelaya returned to Honduras on Saturday after being exiled by the army two years ago in a coup, clearing the way for the nation to normalize relations with its neighbors in the Americas.

Yemen's government and armed tribesmen demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh leave power agreed on Saturday to end their confrontation which had brought the poor Arabian Peninsula country to the brink of civil war.

The police commander for northern Afghanistan has been killed in a suicide bomb attack on the provincial governor's compound in Takhar.

An American citizen detained in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) unspecified charges for six months has been released, U.S rights envoy Robert King said on Saturday following a visit to the secretive state's capital to assess its pleas for food aid.

The Egyptian authorities permanently opened the Rafah border crossing with the sieged Gaza Strip on Saturday, allowing the free passage of travellers for the first time in four years.

President Barack Obama pledged close U.S cooperation with Poland on Saturday on missile defense, the upgrading of its air defenses and in developing shale gas and nuclear power to boost its energy security.

Five loud explosions rung out early May 28 in the Yemeni capital, residents said, amid a surge of violence pitting tribal forces against those loyal to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

On May 27 the authorities in Joplin city in the US state of Missouri updated the death toll to 132 from the deadliest single tornado that battered the city in the evening of May 22.

The 16th Ministerial Conference and Commemorative Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) closed in Bali, Indonesia on May 27 after four days of meetings.

World leaders at the G8 summit in France have issued a joint call for the embattled Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to step down.