A global investigation into a Canadian child porn website had led to the arrest of 341 people including teachers, doctors and police officers, and the rescue of 386 sexually abused children, police said.

Those arrested include six law enforcement officials, nine religious leaders, 40 school teachers, three foster parents, 32 children volunteers and nine doctors and nurses, Toronto police said Thursday.

A Texas town was evacuated Thursday after a gas pipeline operated by Chevron exploded, but there were no injuries.

Huge plumes of smoke and massive flames rose up from the Milford blast site in an otherwise empty field, according to images posted by local media.

A former FBI explosives expert was sentenced on Thursday to about 3½ years in prison for possessing and disclosing secret information, which he has said included intelligence he gave to The Associated Press for a story about a U.S. operation in Yemen in 2012.

The story on Yemen led to a federal leaks investigation and the seizure of AP phone records in the government's search for the information's source.

Taiwan on Friday expressed shock and regret over Gambia's surprise announcement that it had broken off ties with the island after 18 years in its "strategic national interest".

"Our government express shock and regret that Gambian President Yahya Jammeh sent a letter to our embassy in Gambia on November 14 to inform us the immediate termination of ties," vice foreign minister Simon Ko told a news conference in Taipei.

The Central Intelligence Agency is amassing a huge database of international money transfers that includes the financial and personal data of millions of Americans, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Under the program, the Federal Bureau of Investigation works with the CIA to collect large amounts of data on international transactions of Americans and others under the agency's terror investigations.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was unimpressed by a report from the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday that Iran had frozen its nuclear activities.

Iran's archenemy Israel takes a hard line on international pressures for Tehran to rein in its controversial nuclear program and has not ruled out military action against it.

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on Thursday rejected charges that he funneled public money to tabloids who subsequently slammed opponents during his time in power.

Fujimori is serving a 25-year sentence after being convicted in 2009 of human rights violations during his 1990 to 2000 tenure.

British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived Thursday in Sri Lanka ahead of a Commonwealth summit which is set to be overshadowed by his historic visit to the island's former war zone.

Cameron flew in to Colombo around midnight (1830 GMT) from neighboring India on the eve of the summit, according to a photographer at the airport.

A Spanish court on Thursday freed a further 13 jailed members of Basque armed separatist group ETA, a court source said, under a rights ruling that has outraged victims' families.

Many Spaniards are outraged by the release of ETA prisoners convicted of deadly shootings and bombings in a violent campaign to carve out an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southwestern France.

Work is finally set to begin on Athens' first mosque, 13 years after plans were first announced, the Greek government announced on Thursday.

A Greek consortium has been chosen, the infrastructure ministry said, after five previous attempts to find a business group to lead the project failed.