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Ambulances leave the Stade Velodrome stadium in Marseille, southern France, Thursday July 16, 2009. A stage being built for a Madonna concert at the stadium collapsed Thursday, falling apart on top of several workers, leaving one dead and six injured, the fire department said. Madonna's "Sticky & Sweet" tour was to arrive in Marseille on Sunday, but the concert is now canceled because because of the accident and damage.
The roof of a stage being built for a Madonna concert in the French port city of Marseille collapsed Thursday, leaving one worker dead and nine injured, city officials said.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad railed against the U.S. in a speech Thursday, showing little indication of embracing Washington's offer of engagement, a day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said time was running out.
A veteran U.N. official due to retire soon was shot dead along with a guard while resisting kidnappers Thursday at a northwest Pakistan refugee camp, the latest indication of the peril facing humanitarian workers aiding those uprooted by army offensives against the Taliban.
Russia's latest test of its advanced submarine-launched ballistic missile Bulava has failed, with the missile self-destructing, the Defense Ministry said Thursday - another setback for the nation's efforts to upgrade its aging arsenal.
The 100-strong Chinese delegation boycotted the opening ceremony of the World Games in Taiwan on Thursday, underscoring the limits of the historic breakthrough in relations between Taipei and Beijing.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday he is confident that the killer of a prominent human rights activist will be found and punished, while Germany's leader voiced dismay at the slaying and prodded Moscow to ensure it is investigated.
Outside Moscow's sprawling Cherkizovsky market, tensions are rising almost as quickly as the sweltering summer heat.
Two red panda cubs abandoned by their mother at birth are thriving at a northern China zoo thanks to milk and loving care from an unlikely surrogate mother - a dog, state media reported on Thursday.
An initial investigation into ethnic riots that left 192 people dead in China's restive Western region has been completed and arrest warrants will be issued soon, the chief prosecutor for Xinjiang said Thursday.
In an unusual defense against war crimes charges, former Liberian President Charles Taylor told judges Thursday that he saw nothing wrong with displaying the skulls of slain enemy soldiers at roadblocks.
Greece's parliament has approved measures allowing police to use surveillance camera footage and create a DNA database, angering opposition parties that say the new powers will trample on people's privacy.
Pakistan promised India on Thursday that it will do "everything in its power" to bring the Mumbai terror attackers to justice, a key demand by New Delhi to improve relations.
A Venezuelan government agency that sells foreign currency to importers is denying it has limited the supply of dollars for newspapers.
A senior security guard at the most notorious Khmer Rouge prison told a genocide tribunal Thursday that prisoners were told they were being freed as they were led to Cambodia's killing fields.
Media monitor Reporters Without Borders says five photographers and a cameraman have been detained in Iran over the past week.
More people now go online in China than there are people in the United States.
Congo must crack down on rampant sexual violence perpetrated by military generals and other top officers, a prominent international human rights group said Thursday.
Eighteen people were injured Thursday in an explosion that targeted a minibus transporting Shiite pilgrims to a holy shrine to commemorate the death of a revered imam.
China's second-quarter growth accelerated on a stimulus-fed investment boom, the government reported Thursday, sparking a rise in Asian stocks on hopes the world's third-largest economy could help to lead a global recovery.
Some recent high-profile slayings of activists, reporters and lawyers who have challenged Russian authorities in recent years. There have been no convictions in any of the following killings.
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