Iran will not “retreat one iota” over its disputed nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday.

U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama said on Wednesday a nuclear Iran would pose a "grave threat" and that the world must stop Tehran from obtaining an atomic weapon.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged North Korea to accept terms to verify the dismantling of its nuclear weapons program, as the two countries ended a four-year hiatus in cabinet-level talks on Wednesday.

A judge sentenced a husband and wife to more than six years in jail Wednesday for faking the man's drowning death in a $500,000 insurance scam.

Radovan Karadzic's secret life included a mistress, a bogus family in the U.S. and frequent visits to a  pub called The Madhouse, acquaintances said.

The European Union proposed a trade and import ban Wednesday on products from seals killed in a cruel way despite warnings it could hurt the world's largest annual seal hunt in Canada.

A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit the northern part of Japan's main Honshu island Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

A woman has been charged with murder and attempted murder in a hammer attack in Sweden that left two toddlers dead and their mother seriously injured.

Germany is to introduce a test on German customs and history for would-be citizens in September after Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet approved the plan on Wednesday.