A male passenger and his wife were detained for questioning Sunday after a Dubai-bound flight from Mumbai, India was called back before take-off because of a security scare, the airline said.

Aftershocks rattled southern Taiwan in the hours after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook the island, but left it relatively unscathed.

Suspects in an explosive inferno at a Russian nightclub that killed at least 112 people will face charges, authorities have said.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court declares that an amnesty that had protected politicians, including President Asif Ali Zardari, from corruption and criminal charges, was unconstitutional.

Former world No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo has announced her retirement from tennis, revealing that she no longer has the desire to play and train.

More resources and personnel are needed to train Afghan security forces so they can become “masters in their own house,” NATO’s secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.

China’s Li Na continued her Cinderella run through the Australian Open on Wednesday, rallying from a set down to upset Venus Williams and reach the ladies’ semifinals.

Authorities in Malaysia have seized more than 20,000 Bibles in recent months because they refer to God as “Allah,” Christian leaders said Thursday.

As many as 4,000 people could be buried under the rubble in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes in Indonesia, United Nations officials said Saturday.

Former British hostage Peter Moore, freed this week after two-and-a-half years in Iraq, arrived in Britain on Friday, the British Foreign Office said.

German police on Wednesday conducted a “city-wide search” in Berlin, targeting “potentially violent Islamic extremists,” a police spokeswoman told CNN.

Varsha Vinod’s exceptional abilities are hard to spot at first. She’s an adorably cute five-year-old girl from southern India, small, pretty with big brown eyes. It’s impossible to imagine her as a karate black belt if it wasn’t for her white martial arts outfit and her, actual, black belt.

Downpours subsided temporarily in the Philippines on Sunday, a day after Tropical Storm Ketsana pummeled the capital Manila with its heaviest rainfall in more than 40 years.

“Mao is very great and famous, and he saved the whole of China,” exclaims an 18-year-old woman from Wuhan in Hubei province. “Both young people and old people love Mao very much!”

Former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has died, his family told CNN. He was 69.

A hovering Toblerone and a silky-white residue join near-misses and strange lights in the British government’s latest release of its files on UFO sightings.