The United States will have its first formal meeting with the Taliban on Thursday, a source close to the talks told CNN, and the Taliban has told reporters that they want to improve relations with the world. CNN's Nic Robertson explains what's happening.

Prince William's wife, Catherine, plans to give birth to their first baby in the same hospital wing where her husband was born to Diana, Princess of Wales, almost 31 years ago, sources familiar with the plans said Wednesday.

CNN's Karl Penhaul reports on the "Standing Man," who has inspired a new form of protest in Turkey.

President Barack Obama followed in the footsteps of past U.S. leaders with a speech Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate, where he said he would ask Russia to join the United States in slashing its supply of strategic nuclear warheads.

Italy's supreme court on Tuesday explained its earlier ruling that American Amanda Knox be retried in the 2007 death of her roommate, saying the jury that acquitted her didn't consider all the evidence, and that discrepancies in testimony need to be answered.

Still smarting from their ouster Saturday from Istanbul's Taksim Square, demonstrators planned to meet at 9 p.m. Wednesday in 11 neighborhoods to discuss how to proceed.

At 11 pm, the tired and the injured gathered in Belo Horizonte for one last expression of discontent.

The United States is scheduled to begin talks with the Taliban in Qatar, but Afghanistan's president said his country's High Peace Council won't take part unless the discussion is Afghan-led. Hamid Karzai also shelved talks with the United States over keeping troops in Afghanistan past next year.

Prosecutors in Hungary indicted a Nazi war crimes suspect Tuesday with involvement in the brutal treatment and deportation of thousands of Jews during World War II.

Singapore was shrouded in haze on Wednesday as smoke from forest fires in nearby Sumatra drifted across the Malacca Strait in the city's worst pollution crisis in more than a decade.

At least 14 people died and 15 others were wounded in an attack on the U.N. headquarters in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday.

The opening theme's the same and the concept's no different, but "Arab Idol" is much more than just a popular singing competition.

North Korea's bipolar swings between nuclear provocation and fawning overtures for talks now form part of a familiar pattern.

There's a new menace lurking in the streets of London -- exploding sidewalks.

After a chorus of cries for social justice echoed through the streets of Brazil for days, protesters called for a time out Wednesday. Despite the anticipated lull in street marches, the government will beef up security with the deployment of elite police officers and firefighters.

Afghan forces formally took over security responsibilities for their country from NATO-led troops on Tuesday, marking a key transition in the long and costly war. What does it mean for Afghanistan and the U.S.?

After clashes between police and protesters, Indonesia's parliament Monday night voted to revise the national budget and allow an increase of up to 44% in the prices of subsidized gas and diesel fuel.

At least 31 people were killed and 57 others were wounded when two suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

Manfred Zbrzezny wants to bulk up his arsenal.

North Korea has proposed high-level talks with the United States to "ease tensions in the Korean Peninsula," its state news agency reported early Sunday.