Israeli aircraft attacked more than 50 targets in Gaza on Friday believed to be terrorist sites, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

A Zimbabwe court ruled Friday that seven activists, including a freelance journalist, must remain in custody as they await trial for a series of bombings.

Gas should start flowing again through the Ukraine from Russia immediately after a deal was reached for EU monitors to supervise the system, the EU says.

Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Sen. Lindsay Graham arrived in Islamabad Friday afternoon for scheduled talks with senior Pakistani government officials on a variety of regional issues, according to a U.S. Embassy spokesman.

Fighting in northern Sri Lanka between government and rebel forces escalated on several fronts Friday, while Tamil Tiger rebels killed seven people in a roadside bombing.

Ssangyong Motor Co., South Korea's fifth largest automaker, filed for bankruptcy Friday, citing the company's worsening finances.

A suspected Colombian drug boss was shot dead Thursday in a hospital in Madrid, CNN sister station CNN+ reported, citing police sources.

Britain's accident prone "Octopus UFO" is just one of hundreds of unexplained sightings in the same area where a wind turbine was wrecked over the weekend, according to the latest reports.

Gunmen shot and killed a food monitor for the United Nations' World Food Program on Thursday, the second killing of a WFP humanitarian worker in Somalia in three days, a spokesman for the agency said Thursday.