Iran jails former vice president, reform activist
A former Iranian vice president and prominent reform activist convicted of spreading propaganda against the ruling clerical establishment has begun a one-year prison sentence, a close relative said Friday.
Chaos marks Iraq election vote tally
 Iraq's postelection count has fueled allegations of fraud. Questions about the vote's validity could undermine U.S. ambitions to set a standard for democracy in the Middle East.
India seeks to question US terror convict
Indian authorities will ask the United States to let them question a Chicago man who pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, the government said Friday.
Nuke deal with Russia is close, says Clinton
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that American and Russian negotiators are "on the brink" of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.
Video: Iraq 'more peaceful,' but not stable yet
 "All the hard work we've done over the past few years has paid off," one U.S. soldier tells NBC News' Richard Engel in a discussion about the U.S. military's role in Iraq. He added that knowing his friends "didn't die in vain is a big pay off." (Nightly News)
Woman convicted of killing 6 newborns
 A court in Normandy on Thursday convicts a 38-year-old woman of killing six of her newborn babies — a deed she acknowledged — and sentenced her to 15 years in prison.
Munich diocese faces "tsunami" of abuse claims
Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis, the head of its new sex-abuse task force said Friday.
World Blog: Corruption is Iraq's latest enemy
Skier, who is the first Ghanaian to ever compete in the Winter Olympics, becomes a sensation.
A child's hope for a new limb, new life
 Two months after the ground shook in Haiti, 4-year-old Schneily Similien still needs a new leg. His greatest hope is at a small hospital in the rural heart of Haiti, he just needs to get there. Msnbc.com is heading to Haiti track the story of Schneily and other amputees as they work to build new lives.
Losing the battle to keep female flesh off Afghan TV
 Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, who banned television and barred women from appearing in public without an all-enveloping burqa, the Afghan government is fighting a losing battle to keep female flesh off TV.
Anger over freeing man convicted in bishop murder
Guatemalan human rights groups expressed outrage Thursday over a judge's decision to release a former army colonel convicted of killing a prominent Roman Catholic bishop more than a decade ago.
Obama sends Molson beer to cover hockey bet
President Barack Obama followed through on his hockey bet with Canada, sending beer to the prime minister.
Heavy rains swamp Haiti’s homeless camps
 One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamps homeless camps, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water and flooding latrines.
Israel strikes targets in Gaza
 Israeli aircraft strikes two targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday a day after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave killed a Thai worker in Israel, Hamas security officials and witnesses say.
Pakistan arrests halt UN contacts with Taliban
The arrests of top Taliban figures in Pakistan abruptly halted secret U.N. contacts with the insurgency at a time when the efforts were gathering momentum, the U.N.'s former envoy to Afghanistan said Friday.
World powers demand Israeli settlement freeze
 The so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators called on Israel to freeze all settlement activities and denounced Israel's aim to build new housing in East Jerusalem.
Holocaust survivor stands by memory of Anne Frank
A Holocaust survivor who says she met Anne Frank in a Nazi concentration camp is standing by her story in the face of skepticism from historians, filmmakers and a childhood friend of the diarist.
U.N. nixes ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna
 U.S.-backed proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna prized in sushi was rejected by a U.N. wildlife meeting, as nations feared doing so would devastate fishing economies.
Dutch: Gay troops not to blame for genocide
Dutch government officials reacted angrily to claims by a retired U.S. general that Dutch forces were overrun in Srebrenica in 1995 in part because of the presence of gay soldiers.
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