Breaking News & Hottest Global News without Border (Series 3)

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Reports indicate thousands of political separatists and captured Taliban insurgents have disappeared into the hands of Pakistan's police and security forces.

NYT: Reports of 'disappeared' Pakistanis worry U.S.

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Thousands of unhappy satellite TV customers around the country will get refunds in the New Year, courtesy of DIRECTV, the nation's largest satellite TV service.

ConsumerMan: DIRECTV changes its ways

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Just about every mom and dad in the rural northern Ohio town of Clyde gets nervous whenever their children get a sinus infection or a stomachache lingers. It's hard not to panic since mysterious cancers have sickened dozens of area children in recent years.

Child cancer cluster confounds tiny Ohio town

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Military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in northeastern Australia as the prime minister promised new assistance Friday to the 200,000 people affected.

Australia flood zone is larger than Texas

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Tornadoes fueled by unusually warm weather pummeled the South and Midwest on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more across Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois.

New twister alerts after 6 killed in Ark., Mo.

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Nearly a million U.S. revelers have cheered the traditional ball drop in New York's Times Square to mark the start of 2011.

NYC ball drops to ring in 2011

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North Korea welcomed the new year Saturday with a push for better ties with rival South Korea, warning that war "will bring nothing but a nuclear holocaust."

N. Korea warns war will bring 'nuclear holocaust'

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Residents of a coastal city were evacuated Saturday as surging floodwaters edged closer to their community, with one official describing the devastation as reaching "biblical proportions."

'Biblical' flood heads for Australian city

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A sheriff's deputy investigating a report of gunfire at a trailer park was shot dead Saturday, and the shooting suspect was killed after a furious standoff with police, authorities said

Ohio sheriff: Deputy, suspect killed in standoff

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Four students who posed for photos with a human placenta have been kicked out of a suburban Kansas City nursing program after a placenta pictures was posted on Facebook.

Nursing students ousted over placenta photos