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06-01 CNN -World Al Qaeda message blames Obama, Egypt An audio message reportedly from al Qaeda's deputy chief vows revenge for Israel's air and ground assault on Gaza and calls the Jewish state's actions against Hamas militants "a gift" from U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.
06-01 CNN -World Judge: Zimbabwe activists must remain in jail A leading Zimbabwean human rights activist must remain in custody until the Supreme Court decides whether the charges against her are valid, a judge ruled Tuesday.
06-01 CNN -World German billionaire kills self, family says German billionaire Adolf Merckle, one of the richest men in the world, committed suicide Monday after his business empire got into trouble in the wake of the international financial crisis, Merckle's family said Tuesday in a statement.
06-01 CNN -World Apple attends its final Macworld When Apple vice president Philip Schiller takes the stage here Tuesday morning for the keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo, he'll face a good-news, bad-news scenario.
06-01 CNN -World Gas row flares as supplies to Europe cut Several European countries said Tuesday their supply of natural gas from Russia had been cut or reduced amid a dispute over payments between Russia and Ukraine.
06-01 CNN -World Blair:Cease-fire must halt Hamas smuggling Any cease-fire in the Gaza conflict will require "clear and definitive action" to halt the smuggling of weapons and money into the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday.
06-01 CNN -World Move Polanski case outside of LA, lawyers ask Lawyers for exiled film director Roman Polanski are asking that a judge outside of Los Angeles be assigned to decide its motion to dismiss a 30-year-old sex offense case against him, claiming prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.
06-01 CNN -World Report: China targets 'porn' Web sites China has released a blacklist of 19 major online portals and Web sites, including Google and Baidu, that it claims provide and spread pornographic or obscene content, state media reported.
06-01 CNN -World Israeli military surrounds Gaza City As the Israeli military surrounded densely populated Gaza City on Tuesday, it says it has killed 130 Hamas fighters since beginning a ground offensive over the weekend.
05-01 CNN -World U.S. designates new marine conservation areas U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday will designate nine sites in three areas of the central Pacific as marine national monuments, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Monday.
05-01 CNN -World Gaza horrors sow seeds for future violence Mohammed Abu Hassanin may be a young boy, but he's old enough to know he's scared of the attacks being launched by Israel in Gaza.
05-01 CNN -World Hundreds in Afghanistan protest Gaza incursion Hundreds of people in southern Afghanistan have burned Israeli flags and shouted anti-Israel and anti-American slogans to protest Israel's military action in Gaza, according to eyewitness accounts from a CNN stringer.
05-01 CNN -World In Gaza, living with anger and fear "Listen, listen to this!" shouts Fida Qishta as the crackling of rockets is heard over her phone receiver.
05-01 CNN -World At least 29 dead in Guatemalan landslide At least 29 people died in a landslide in Guatemala, and officials expect the death toll to increase, news reports said Monday.
05-01 CNN -World Masked gunmen attack riot police in Athens Gunmen attacked a riot police unit in Athens Monday, seriously injuring an officer following weeks of violent protests sparked by the deadly police shooting of a teenager last month.
05-01 CNN -World European markets follow Asia higher Asia markets pushed largely higher at the start of the first full trading week of 2009, with Tokyo's Nikkei average up more than 2 percent at Monday's midday break.
05-01 CNN -World Doctor in Gaza: Patients 'lying everywhere' Gaza's main hospital, already overloaded with Palestinians wounded in the week-long Israeli air assault, has reached critical mass, according to a Norwegian doctor volunteering at Shifa Hospital.
05-01 CNN -World Thai club owner charged in deadly fire Thai police charged a Bangkok nightclub owner on Monday in connection with a New Year's Eve fire that has claimed the lives of at least 64 people, police said.
05-01 CNN -World Israel pounds Hamas; rocket fire continues Hamas rocket fire into southern Israel persisted Monday despite a now 10-day campaign of Israeli airstrikes and two nights of ground combat in northern Gaza.
05-01 CNN -World 10-year-old girl killed in Indonesia quake A 10-year-old girl was killed and 35 other people wounded in a major earthquake near the north coast of West Papua, Indonesia, government officials said.
05-01 CNN -World Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan A Taliban rocket attack in southern Afghanistan has killed an Australian soldier, that country's defense ministry announced Monday.
05-01 CNN -World India hands Mumbai attacks file to Pakistan India has handed evidence it says links the November massacre in Mumbai to "elements in Pakistan" over to Pakistani government officials, its foreign ministry announced Monday.
04-01 CNN -World 2 kidnapped journalists freed in Somalia Two journalists -- one British and one Spanish -- who were kidnapped in Somalia in November have been released, according to a Somali press group.
04-01 CNN -World Scientists: True love can last a lifetime Love's first blush fading? Lost that loving feeling? Love is not all around?
04-01 CNN -World Dozens killed in Iraqi pilgrimage bombing A suicide bomber killed at least 37 people and injured 53 -- many of them women -- during a Shia pilgrimage in northwestern Baghdad Sunday, Iraqi officials told CNN.