A UN special envoy released on Friday a plan for Kosovo that would give the Serbian province the right to govern itself.

Turner Broadcasting System apologized to Boston-area residents Friday after a marketing campaign for its subsidiary Cartoon Network caused a major security scare.

Survivors helped recover bodies out of destroyed buildings after storms swept through Central Florida Friday, as the death toll mounted to at least 19 people by late afternoon.

U.S. authorities say a 29-year-old convicted sex offender was able to pass as a 12-year-old boy in seventh grade for four months at a school in Arizona last year.

The leaders of the two Palestinian factions battling in Gaza agreed Friday to meet to again try and settle their differences as the day's death toll from gunbattles rose to 17.

International scientists and officials hailed a UN report Friday that said human activity was "very likely" the cause of global warming and that higher temperatures and rising sea levels would continue for centuries.

Afghan police clashed with suspected militants in western Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 12 of the fighters, officials said.

Iran appears to be pushing ahead with construction plans to build a site capable of making nuclear warheads, in defiance of Western opposition.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed when their helicopter went down Friday north of Baghdad - the fourth U.S. helicopter to crash in Iraq in two weeks.

Two U.S. Senators say they met with American justice officials Thursday, but got few answers to their questions about why Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar was deported from New York to Syria.

Britain will increase its military presence in southern Afghanistan by about 800 troops to 5,800 this summer, Defence Secretary Des Browne said Thursday.

Left-leaning comedian and political commentator Al Franken will run for the U.S. Senate in 2008, a senior Democratic Party official from Minnesota said Wednesday.

Shootings, assaults and other violent incidents strained the two-day-old truce between Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.

Dictatorships are predictably the worst offenders when it comes to press freedom, but democracies, too, need to make some improvements, Reporters Without Borders said in its 2007 report on press freedom, published Thursday.

At least 45 people were killed and dozens wounded when two suicide bombers blew themselves up Thursday in a crowded outdoor market in a Shia city south of Baghdad, police said.

Two men whose marketing stunt for a cartoon show inadvertently shut down Boston were released on bond Thursday, and didn't seem to take matters seriously.

French smokers took a last legal drag of their cigarettes before butting out Thursday, when the government enforced its ban on puffing in most public spaces.

Silvio Berlusconi's wife finds that the way to an Italian politician's heart is through a newspaper that has been a persistent critic of the man.

The third-ranking official in the U.S. State Department has warned Iran about interfering in Iraq, again putting Iran on notice.

A UN report will say it is "very likely" - or 90 per cent certain - climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels, according to officials involved in writing the report.