Magnitude-7.2 earthquake rocks Chile on day of presidential inauguration.

Eight journalists have reportedly been kidnapped in a Mexican border city in a two-week span in a wave of abductions unprecedented in the Western Hemisphere.

The search for the black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris has been delayed by weather conditions and trouble getting a search ship to Brazil, officials said Thursday.

Officials say Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has undergone surgery but already has been released from the hospital and is in good health.

A Rome high school has incurred the ire of the Catholic Church after its decision to install condom-vending machines for students.