Pakistan rejects charge of state role in Mumbai attacks

The first trucks supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan crossed the border from Pakistan on Thursday after Islamabad ended a seven-month blockade.

Health officials in Cambodia are searching for the cause of a mystery disease that has killed more than 60 children over the past three months, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

Investigators probing a 2009 mid-Atlantic Air France plane crash blamed a combination of pilot error, technical problems, inadequate training and poor oversight in a report that went further than expected in castigating the safety industry.

The Philippine government has protested China’s move to place virtually the entire South China Sea under the jurisdiction of a newly created city.

Fireworks illuminate the night sky over the Washington Monument (bottom) during Fourth of July celebrations in Washington, DC, Wednesday.

Kuwait’s emir Thursday asked outgoing Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to form a new government, state news agency KUNA said, in a move that may help ease a political crisis in the country.

The bodies of two Turkish pilots were recovered from the seabed on Thursday after US ocean explorer Robert Ballard, best known for discovering the wreck of the Titanic, helped locate them nearly two weeks after their jet was shot down by Syria.

Actors perform during a show marking 50 years of Algeria’s Independence in Algiers, Thursday.

Britain’s security minister says an Indian militant group behind a series of bombings has been banned in the UK.

Communist rebels have raided a gold mining company in the southern Philippines and demanded weapons in exchange for releasing three hostages.

Three people died when a yacht capsized off the coast of New York’s Long Island late Wednesday, the US Coast Guard said.