Doctor's mission to save Ethiopian kids' hearts

Brazil custody dad ‘discouraged but determined’

  His hopes frustrated after the latest court delay in his five-year custody battle, David Goldman said he was “discouraged but no less determined” and lashed out at the Brazilian family that has his 9-year-old son, Sean: “They brainwash him, torture him.”

Cambodia sends Uighur asylum-seekers back to China

  A group of Muslims who fled China after deadly ethnic rioting and sought asylum in Cambodia were sent back home Saturday, even though rights groups fear they face persecution and possibly execution there.

Modest climate deal frustrates many

The climate deal president Obama has helped broker falls short of many countries' expectations and leaves a battle plan for climate change potentially years away.

Iran admits prisoners were beaten to death

Iran's hard-line judiciary acknowledges for the first time that at least three prisoners detained after June's disputed presidential election were beaten to death by their jailers.

Old names reappear in new Afghan cabinet

Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to keep most of his top ministers, mainly technocrats favored by the West, in a new cabinet presented to parliament, one of his ministers said.