PAJAPITA, Guatemala, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A magnitude-6.5 earthquake rocked western Guatemala Friday night, U.S. seismologists said.
BERLIN, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Rochus Misch, Adolf Hitler's bodyguard who was the last surviving witness of the Nazi leader's final hours, died in Berlin, his biographer said. He was 96.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Syria Friday while other Group of 20 Summit leaders watched, a summit official said.
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- South Korea is expanding its ban on Japanese fish to include those caught in a wide area near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, officials said Friday.
ISLAMABAD, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed a man listed by the United States as a "specially designated global terrorist," residents said.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Al-Shabaab, a Somali militant group linked to al-Qaida, said Twitter is trying to "silence the truth" by suspending its account for a second time since January.
MIRNY, Russia, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- An intruder fired a shotgun Friday in the administrative building of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, the space center at Mirny, Russia, city officials said.
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- China needs to invest in promoting Mandarin as the national language because nearly one-third of Chinese don't speak it, the country's education ministry says.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Participants at the Group of 20 summit in Russia stepped up the pressure on tax avoidance by backing a plan to crack down on multinational companies.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Two paintings were stolen from the controversial Museum of Authority in St. Petersburg, Russia, the museum's owner said Friday.
ROME, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Approval to rotate the sunken cruise ship Costa Concordia to an upright position could come by next week, Italian civil protection officers said Friday.
MOSCOW, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- The United States has refused to make an "extradition deal" to trade fugitive Edward Snowden for Russian criminals, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
MATABELELAND NORTH, Zimbabwe, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Poachers in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park used poison to kill 41 elephants, an official said.
GUANGZHOU, China, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A Guangdong Province, China, court issued a death sentence Friday to a man whose 2012 act of arson in a clothing factory killed 14 people.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- At least two people were killed Friday, and dozens more injured, in clashes across Egypt between pro- and anti-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators, officials say.