NEW YORK: London imam Abu Hamza al-Masri was convicted of terrorism charges in New York on Monday, following a four-week trial that shined a spotlight on the preacher's controversial anti-Western statements.

 WASHINGTON: The United States is pledging nearly $300 million in assistance to address urgent humanitarian needs resulting from the crisis in South Sudan.

 NEW DELHI: With Narendra Modi leading BJP's electoral sweep in India, world leaders are waking up to a possible decisive direction in India's foreign policy.

WASHINGTON: A single daily pill may help prevent HIV. And in America, gay men who have lost countless loved ones to AIDS can't stop fighting about it.

MUNSHIGANJ, Bangladesh: Rescuers called off the search for missing passengers of a sunken ferry in central Bangladesh on Saturday after retrieving 40 bodies, causing anger among relatives of those still unaccounted for.

 NEW YORK: President Barack Obama praised the new September 11 museum on Thursday as "a sacred place of healing and of hope" that captures both the story and the spirit of heroism that followed the attacks.

WASHINGTON: Vice President Joe Biden is conveying America's objections about China's behavior in a territorial dispute with Vietnam to the top brass of the Chinese military.

BOSTON: A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber grew suspicious that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had carried out the attack when he threw away a backpack and laptop he had removed from the suspect's dorm room, a federal agent testified on Thursday.

 LOS ANGELES: Thousands of people are fleeing their homes to escape raging wildfires in southern California, which on Wednesday triggered the partial evacuation of a military base and a tourist amusement park.

 SOMA, Turkey: In a relentless procession that ignited wails of grief, rescue workers coated in grime lumbered out of a mine in western Turkey again and again Wednesday, struggling to carry stretchers laden with bodies covered in blankets.