Police blocked off a section of Times Square and evacuated some buildings Wednesday as they investigated a suspicious white van that may have been parked in the same spot for one or two days.

Pro-government Iranians jammed the streets of the capital and other cities in response to anti-government rallies during observances of the holy day of Ashura.

Two back-to-back explosions in western Iraq's Anbar province on Wednesday killed at least eight people and wounded 20 others, including the provincial governor, the interior ministry said.

The nephew of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi was buried Wednesday, three days after he was killed in anti-government demonstrations.

It happens only once in a blue moon -- and scientists say a blue moon is exactly what we'll see in the skies this New Year's Eve.