Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles has accepted a Supreme Court ruling that allows ailing President Hugo Chavez to postpone his inauguration while allowing his government to continue in office. Capriles said on Wednesday that the ruling handed down by the top court "is binding," but did not end the uncertainties…

The Pakistani schoolgirl hailed around the world for her efforts to stand up against the Taliban is out of the hospital. Video released Friday by Britain's Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham shows 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai holding hands with one of the nurses and waving to hospital staff as she was…

Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, is suffering from "complications" brought on by a "severe lung infection" which developed after surgery, officials say. Mr Chavez, 58, had his fourth operation for cancer in Cuba on 11 December and then developed a respiratory infection. In a statement from Caracas, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas…

A Mississippi man pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal hate crime charges in connection with attacks on African-Americans that ended with a black man dead after being run over by a truck, federal officials said. Joseph Dominick, 21, was the sixth person to plead guilty to hate crimes charges for…