Breaking News & Hottest Global News without Border (Series 2)

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NYT: Scores of classified documents made public by WikiLeaks provide  a look at the shadow war between the U.S. and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

NYT: Leaked reports detail Iran's aid for Iraqi militias

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Ousted NPR analyst Juan Williams said Friday that he believes his former employer had been looking for a reason to fire him and used comments he made this week about Muslim airline passengers as an excuse to do so. Meanwhile, a U.S. senator said he would start the ball rolling to cut federal funding to the network.

Williams: NPR looking for reason to fire him

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A 4-month-old baby died after he and 10 other people fell from the third-story window of a suburban Paris apartment building on Saturday, an official said.

France: Baby dies, 10 injured in fall from window

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To understand Republicans' nagging fear that the Nov. 2 elections might not be quite the massive triumph that many have predicted, check out Pennsylvania's perplexing Senate race.

Tightening Senate races give pause to GOP

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The European Commission warned Italy on Saturday it may face sanctions if it doesn't remove the 2,400 tons of trash that have piled up in the streets of Naples in the country's latest garbage crisis.

EU to Italy: Clean up Naples trash or face fines

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The new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the U.S. with coverage for generations. But some employers are weighing the options.

Could overhaul undermine employer health coverage?

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A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground: the squalid camps in Port-au-Prince where 1.3 million earthquake survivors live.

In Haiti, cholera could heighten quake misery

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More than 700 hoteliers and vacation agencies have joined KwikChex, a British company now threatening to file a series of defamation lawsuits against TripAdvisor on behalf of travel businesses.

Lawsuits threatened over TripAdvisor reviews

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Early modern humans mated with Neanderthals and possibly other archaic hominid species from Asia at least 100,000 years ago, according to a new study that describes human remains from that period in South China.

Early humans mated with Neanderthals

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Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois in over seven decades.

Midwest hit by 'huge wind machine'