Officials from six world powers are due to hold talks with Iranian representatives in Baghdad on Wednesday about Tehran's controversial nuclear program.

The uproar last week over a proposed campaign ad highlighting President Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, lit up political circles before organizers finally backed off the idea.

Two women and three men that were working for an aid group were kidnapped in a remote area of Afghanistan this week, authorities said.

Two men accused of murdering an Irish teacher on her honeymoon last year pleaded not guilty when they appeared in court in Mauritius on Tuesday, police on the Indian Ocean island said.

Authorities in Santa Monica, California, fatally shot a mountain lion Tuesday, acting on public safety concerns after it tried to escape from an office building courtyard in the city.

An Alabama women's prison is the focus of a formal complaint filed with the Justice Department on Tuesday that alleges male guards for years engaged in the widespread sexual abuse of female inmates, according to a nonprofit group called The Equal Justice Initiative.