LAGOS, Nigeria — An American documentary filmmaker and his translator working in the volatile Delta region of Nigeria have been arrested and accused of spying, according to Nigerian government officials and media watchdog groups. Andrew Berends, a New York-based freelance...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Seventeen people were feared dead in eastern Congo after a small plane carrying United Nations employees and other aid workers slammed into a mountainside, United Nations officials said on Tuesday. The plane disappeared during a fierce thunderstorm...

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- Almost 300 people will be formally charged in Ramsey County District Court on Tuesday after they were arrested during protests at the Republican National Convention, a police spokesman said. var CNN_ArticleChanger = new CNN_imageChanger('cnnImgChngr','/2008/POLITICS/09/02/rnc.security/imgChng/p1-0.init.exclude.html',2,1);...

TOKYO — Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan abruptly announced his resignation on Monday, ending a short-lived and unpopular government marred by political paralysis. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced his resignation at a news conference at his official residence in...

ST. PAUL — Plans for the Republican National Convention were in flux on Sunday as the presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain , announced that the thrust of the convention would change “from a party event to a call to...