Pakistan's Taliban said on May 20 it had attacked a US consulate convoy in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar, the latest in a surge of violence since US forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden earlier this month.

NATO aircraft targeted warships overnight, striking eight of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's vessels in Tripoli's seaport, the organization said on May 20. A Libyan government official said the targets included commercial vessels as well as military ones.  

Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn won bail Thursday after being indicted on "serious" sex charges, but was ordered to remain under house arrest with an armed guard and post $1 million in cash.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed for talks in Washington on Friday saying that U.S. President Barack Obama's vision of a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 could leave Israel "indefensible."

Protesters spilled into northern Afghan streets on Thursday, a day after at least 14 people were killed and scores wounded in wild protests that underscored deep tensions between Afghans and foreign troops.

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale hit northwest Turkey late Thursday, killing one person and causing material damage, local governor Kenan Ciftci told news channel NTV.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund, saying he needs to devote all his energy to fight charges that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid.

A Sol Air Lines plane carrying 22 people crashed and exploded Wednesday in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, killing all on board.

A spate of bomb attacks against police in the disputed northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Thursday killed at least 27 people, the worst violence to hit Iraq in nearly two months.

Hundreds of Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists staged a show of support in the capital early Thursday, claiming the rebel insurgency was nearing an end, as the Libyan leader's forces intensified a campaign to take strategic heights in a western mountain range.