Willem-Alexander was sworn in as the first Dutch king in more than 120 years on Tuesday after his mother, Queen Beatrix, abdicated the throne, ending 33 years as the country's monarch.

The first shipment of U.S. aid to the armed Syrian rebels was being delivered Tuesday to the opposition Supreme Military Council (SMC).

Every month, Mexico's navy says it rescues about 150 stranded immigrants. As part of a scam, officials say, traffickers leave migrants adrift at sea, in the area maritime experts call "the new frontier."

A French family kidnapped in northern Cameroon earlier this year has been released, the Cameroonian government said Friday.

The Taliban have launched their spring offensive, their annual spate of attacks targeting foreign bases, government officials and Afghan police, a Taliban spokesman said Sunday.

North Korea allowed the withdrawal Monday of most of the remaining South Korean personnel at a jointly-run industrial park in the North, South Korean officials said, with the final seven staying behind to negotiate unpaid wages for North Korean workers.

Rescue workers in Bangladesh have given up hope of finding any more survivors in the rubble of a building that collapsed five days ago.

Rescuers tunneling Friday into the rubble of the eight-story building that collapsed Wednesday discovered another 50 people trapped on what remained of its third floor, an official said.

The Boston Marathon bombing suspect is being held in a small cell with a steel door at a federal medical detention center about 40 miles outside the city, a federal official said Saturday.

Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects had a conversation with his mother of a radical nature, officials confirmed to CBS News correspondent Bob Orr Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.

Seven hundred workers have died in factory collapses and fires in this very small region outside Dhaka alone in the last decade.

The first of 500 Marines have begun deploying to Spain as part of a new rapid reaction force to respond to threats against U.S. citizens, government personnel or installations in Africa.

The building housed garment factories and collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 307 victims. Rescuers continue to recover survivors, but hundreds more are feared trapped. Demonstrations continue in the streets of Dhaka.

The mother of the two Boston bombing suspects told reporters in southern Russia on Thursday that she regretted ever moving her family to the United States.

At least five people were killed and 37 wounded in a suicide blast in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Tuesday night, police said.

An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 87 people and trapping many more under a jumbled mess of concrete.

Is al Qaeda looking to ground transportation as a promising target after the introduction of intense security measures for air travel? Canadian authorities suspect al Qaeda elements in Iran provided guidance to alleged plotters.

A group of boats carrying Japanese nationalists has since left the area. The number of Chinese ships near the disputed islands is the largest yet, Japan says. The "potential for escalation has increased," a recent analysis claims.

Each firework has 24 shells containing 60 grams of composition of powder, half of which is black powder.

Research into the H7N9 virus suggests the risk of contracting serious illness rises with age and that more people may be infected than the 105 cases reported, according to a study by the Hong Kong University.

The one-sentence document was filed Tuesday, hours after former suspect Paul Kevin Curtis was released from custody.

Burmese security forces backed by Buddhist monks have "committed crimes against humanity" in a campaign of ethnic cleansing that has displaced more than 125,000 Rohingya Muslims in the southwest of the country, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.

On board are seven Turkish engineers, two Russian pilots and an Afghan pilot. Chopper is headed to Kabul from Khost, and developed equipment malfunction, an official says.

China's death toll stands at 192, with more than 11,000 injured, state media report. Tens of thousands have been left homeless and in need of food and water, and frequent aftershocks are hindering rescue workers' efforts to find survivors.

Kenya swore in its youngest-ever president Tuesday before a massive crowd, including numerous heads of state and American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.