South Korea's president says Seoul is open to talking with an "open heart" if North Korea shows a willingness to improve ties. More>>
Chile's government says it will reopen the border with Peru by Wednesday night, following heavy rains that displaced land mines and floated some onto the Pan-American Highway. More>>
New Zealanders are gathering in the thousands to remember the 185 people who died in a devastating earthquake one year ago in the city of Christchurch. More>>
Kim Dotcom, founder of the website Megaupload, has been released from jail in New Zealand after being granted bail. More>>
The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 13,000 for the first time since May 2008, before the financial crisis nearly unraveled the U.S. economy. But the marker didn't last long. More>>
A lawyer says he will enter a plea of not guilty for a man charged in the robbery of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on the Caribbean island of Nevis. More>>
Azerbaijan's security agency says it has busted an alleged terrorist group working for Iran's secret services. More>>
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has arrived in Senegal to mediate the country's political standoff, while police once again fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital. More>>
Activists say more than 60 people have been killed in Syria today as government forces moved against regime opponents. More>>
President Hugo Chavez says doctors in Cuba have found a new lesion in the area where a cancer was detected last year. More>>
NATO says three NATO service members have been killed in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan. More>>
China's National Energy Administration is aiming to improve safety at nuclear power plants after months of assessments and inspections in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster. More>>
North Korea's top nuclear envoy has left Pyongyang for Beijing ahead of important nuclear talks with the United States later this week. More>>
Sen. John McCain says Egyptian officials have told him they are working "diligently" to resolve a crisis that has brought relations between Cairo and Washington to their lowest point in decades. More>>
Syrian troops and tanks are gathering outside the city of Homs (), a stronghold of the anti-government forces there. More>>
China says it was courageous in voting against a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning human rights violations in Syria. More>>
Lawyers for the nephew of a self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind say their client doesn't deserve a possible death sentence in a war crimes trial to be held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay. More>>
A stray dog is getting credit for thwarting a prison breakout in Paraguay. More>>
A British student who hacked into Facebook's computers has been sentenced to eight months in prison. More>>
A secular party in Algeria has announced it will boycott elections in May. More>>
A prominent Jewish group is urging President Hugo Chavez to prevent anti-Semitic attacks on the opposition's presidential candidate by state news media. More>>
Documents on three deadly jetliner crashes in Nigeria are offering a harrowing look at the loosely enforced safety regulations and oversight in Africa's most populous nation. More>>
Nigeria's president has announced that his Ivorian counterpart is replacing him as chair of the West African regional bloc. More>>
Tunisian police have used tear gas to disperse a demonstration of ultraconservative Islamists protesting against the government in the capital. More>>
A lawyer for an Islamic extremist sentenced to life in prison for killing two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport last year and injuring two others says he has filed an appeal. More>>
Hundreds of women wearing miniskirts have marched through downtown Johannesburg to protest sexual harassment. More>>
Britain's Olympics minister says it's unreasonable to give a full accounting of ticket sales for the 2012 London Olympics right now. More>>
A prominent Polish politician and several other people have smoked marijuana in front of parliament as part of a campaign to liberalize the country's drug laws. More>>
Britain and France are going to hold a joint exercise to test their abilities to respond to a terror incident at the 2012 London Olympics. More>>
An international banking clearinghouse crucial to Iran's oil sales says it is prepared to discontinue services to Iranian financial institutions targeted by EU and U.S. sanctions. More>>
The European Union says it has removed 51 loyalists of Zimbabwe's president from a list of people facing travel and banking bans in their countries. More>>
The Netherlands says the younger son of Queen Beatrix has been seriously injured in an avalanche and his "life remains at risk" after being hospitalized. More>>
The government says it's concerned that Iran will consider a terror attack on American soil, but it has no specific or credible threat about such a plan. More>>
Japanese Emperor Akihito has entered the hospital for scheduled heart bypass surgery. More>>
Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular search engine, says its latest quarterly profit rose 77 percent on growth in customer numbers. More>>
North Koreans are gathering in frigid Pyongyang to mark what would have been the 70th birthday of their late leader Kim Jong Il. More>>
The United States and Europe are considering unprecedented punishment against Iran that could immediately cripple the country's financial lifeline. More>>
Mexico's Roman Catholic Church is drawing fire for releasing a set of "guidelines" on how the faithful should vote ahead of the July 1 presidential elections. More>>
Thousands of fighters from across western Libya have held a mass parade in Tripoli, showing off heavy machine guns and rocket launchers and firing rifles in the air. More>>
A gay activist in Uganda says that the country's ethics minister, accompanied by police, broke up a meeting of gay participants. More>>
Venezuela's Supreme Court has ordered opposition electoral officials not to destroy lists of voters following primary elections. More>>
Tunisia's state news agency says an appeals court has dismissed a criminal lawsuit filed by authorities against the former Libyan prime minister for allegedly crossing into the country illegally. More>>
South Sudan is accusing its northern neighbor Sudan of violating a non-aggression agreement between the two nations just hours after it was signed. More>>
An American rights group says six U.S. citizens have been detained in Bahrain during Tuesday's anti-government protests marking the one-year anniversary of the Shiite-led uprising against the Gulf kingdom's Sunni rulers. More>>
The female branch of the scandal-plagued Legion of Christ religious order is in turmoil following the resignation of its leader and decision of some 30 members to split off from the movement. More>>
A rights group says a 19-year-old Tibetan monk has set himself on fire in western China, the latest in a series of self-immolations protesting China's handling of its vast ethnic Tibetan regions. More>>
A Sydney man has been fined 750 Australian dollars ($800) for mooning Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, during a royal visit to Australia. More>>
China's TV governing body has told broadcasters they will be limited in the number of imported series they can show. More>>
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Egyptian authorities to release a detained Australian journalist, his translator and an American student who was traveling with them. More>>
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says poverty is fueling the religious violence tearing at Nigeria. More>>
The editor in chief of an independent newspaper and news website operating in a rough Brazilian border town has been shot and killed. More>>
Representatives of around 100 militias from western Libya have announced a new federation they say will prevent infighting and press the country's new leaders for greater reforms. More>>
Guatemala's president says U.S. refusal to deal with its drug consumption problem has left the tiny Central American country with no option but to consider legalizing drugs. More>>
The State Department says a U.S. envoy will hold talks with North Korea on its nuclear program in Beijing next week. More>>
Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf have asked a court to dismiss their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants. More>>
Japan's Imperial Household Agency says Emperor Akihito has been hospitalized for tests. More>>
Police officers in Brazil's Rio state have voted to go on strike even though legislators approved a big pay raise hours before the strike vote. More>>
A crucial meeting between Greece's Prime Minister and debt inspectors on averting the country's bankruptcy has just ended with no definite results. More>>
Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone fired two missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, killing three suspected militants. More>>
The political leaders backing Greece's coalition government have ended their meeting after seven-and-a-half hours without an agreement on the austerity proposals of the so-called "troika" of bailout creditors -- the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. More>>
Authorities in the Dominican Republic say the death toll from the sinking of a boat carrying migrants has risen to 41. More>>
Libya has finalized a law to govern an election to choose a national assembly to draft a new constitution -- a first step to setting up a new government after the ouster of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. More>>
The Czech Parliament has approved changing the constitution to let the public elect the country's presidents instead of lawmakers. More>>
Organizers in the Netherlands say it is still too early to decide if a 125-mile (200-kilometer) skating marathon across frozen waterways can be staged for the first time in 15 years. More>>
A sweeping U.N. study finds that rising crime across the Caribbean threatens the region's tourism-based economy and has exposed a weak and ineffective judicial system. More>>
An opposition official in Senegal says police fired tear gas in a regional capital where the country's president was attempting to hold a campaign rally. More>>
Egypt's state news agency says the military has deployed troops to the country's streets to reinforce the police, restore security and state "prestige." More>>
Authorities in south China's Guangdong province say parents can be fined or punished for having more than one child, even if the babies are born in Hong Kong. More>>
A small band of protesters in Haiti has called on President Michel Martelly to prove he's eligible for office. More>>
Argentina President Cristina Fernandez says she will formally complain to the U.N. Security Council about Britain sending one of its most modern warships to the Falkland Islands. More>>
The death toll has risen to 21 from the weekend capsizing of a boat overloaded with migrants near the Dominican Republic. More>>
Christie's says three top works from the late Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor's art collection have sold at auction in London for nearly 14 million pounds ($22 million). More>>
Bolivian authorities say coca growers have whipped four police officers for trying to destroy their coca crop in an application of what the growers call "community justice." More>>
Officials say a drug gang has unfurled banners in a central Mexican city that Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to visit next month. More>>
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- An Ecuadorean court has ordered two journalists to pay $1 million each to President Rafael Correa after finding them guilty of defamation for reporting on contracts the president's More>>
MADRID (AP) -- Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador says he may appeal the two-year doping ban handed down by sport's highest court. Contador says he is innocent and has no plans to retire despite hinting More>>
A German court has rejected the claim of two Jewish women for extra pension payments for work they did under the Nazis in ghettos. More>>
BEIRUT (AP) -- The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group says if Israel attacks Iran's nuclear facilities, Iran will not order his group to retaliate. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says in case of such More>>
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- The aging president of Senegal has attempted to divert attention from a growing opposition movement and show that he still has support in the streets of the capital by leading an More>>
Venezuelan authorities say the mayor of a small town in eastern Venezuela has been wounded in a shooting along with the local police chief. More>>
A critic who accused a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of scattering literary allusions like "tin cans tied to a tricycle" has won a prize for the year's most lacerating book review. More>>
BRUSSELS (AP) -- A spokesman for Greece's private creditors says Greek Premier Lucas Papademos will soon tell eurozone finance ministers the contents of a deal to reduce the country's massive debt. Frank More>>
Russia's U.N. ambassador is denying reports he threatened Qatar during contentious weekend negotiations on Syria and says a U.N. resolution could have passed if Western governments had waited another two or three days. More>>
Trinidad's former Prime Minister Patrick Manning has been airlifted to Walter Reed Medical Center in the United States for treatment following a stroke. More>>
Venezuela says it has arrested on murder and drug trafficking charges the last major Colombian far-right paramilitary warlord still at large. More>>
Western powers are sending a message to Syria -- that they no longer see the point of engaging with President Bashar Assad as they push for an end to his government's violent crackdown on protesters. More>>
Doctors in Panama say former dictator Manuel Noriega is "stable" after being hospitalized for extreme hypertension. More>>
For the first time since rival Palestinian governments were set up in the West Bank and Gaza in 2007, reconciliation appears to be within reach. More>>
Are bribes sometimes justified? A new study finds that people in Guyana, Haiti and Belize are more likely to agree than any others in the Americas. More>>
A Puerto Rican fisherman spent nearly three weeks adrift in the Caribbean, surviving on raw fish and trapped rainwater, before reaching the Colombian island of San Andres. More>>
An Israeli official says the country's prime minister has told his Cabinet to quit the "chitchat" about Iran. More>>
An al-Qaida front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the two deadliest attacks on Shiites there since the U.S. military completed its withdrawal. More>>
The U.S. cardinal who leads the Vatican office overseeing cases of sexual abuse by clergy says Pope Benedict XVI should be thanked, not attacked, for his handling of the problem. More>>
An Italian appeals court has overturned the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian man who had spent nine years in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. More>>
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Striking state police and their supporters have clashed with Brazilian soldiers outside the state legislature in the northeastern city of Salvador. Troops surrounded the building More>>
One French minister says some civilizations -- notably France's -- are worth more than others. More>>
The U.S. closed its embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday in a dramatic escalation of pressure on President Bashar Assad to give up power, just days after diplomatic efforts to end nearly 11 months of bloodshed collapsed at the United Nations. More>>
Peruvian police have freed one of two Chileans arrested this week on suspicion of espionage. More>>
Mexico's former ruling party has filed a complaint accusing federal prosecutors of leaking information tying three of the party's former governors to a drug money-laundering investigation. More>>
Syrian activists say an evening assault by government forces in the central city of Homs has killed 200 people and wounded hundreds. More>>
Venezuelan authorities say a Colombian rebel commander who has been detained in the country since May has been taken to a military hospital because of health problems. More>>
Witnesses say a surveillance drone has crashed into a refugee camp in the Somali capital. More>>
A Western diplomat says the Security Council will meet Saturday morning, when a much-negotiated resolution on Syria could reach a vote. More>>
Chilean police say they've cracked a scheme to steal ice from a disappearing glacier. More>>
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has warned of a war between Khartoum and South Sudan because their failure to settle a dispute over an oil export deal. More>>
Police say a primary school principal in Trinidad has been charged with cruelty for allegedly pushing the heads of two boys into a toilet and flushing. More>>
An activist representing relatives of women slain or missing in the border city of Ciudad Juarez has been attacked for the second time in two months. More>>
Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez says she has been denied permission attend a film festival in Brazil. More>>
Diplomats say requests made by the U.N nuclear agency at talks this week with Iran have further raised the pressure on Tehran to address allegations of a secret arms program. More>>
Syrian troops have been battling rebels today in the suburbs of the capital and in the country's south. More>>
Some 2,000 Brazilian army soldiers and a contingent of elite federal police are patrolling the nation's third-largest city as a state police strike enters its fourth day. More>>
Canada's prime minister is heading to China next week in a visit that will be dominated by discussion of Canada's vast oil reserves. More>>
Hackers have attacked the Greek Justice Ministry website to protest the government's signing of a global copyright treaty and its handling of the financial crisis. More>>
An Irish woman who was raped as a teen by a priest says some fellow survivors of clergy sex abuse are questioning the motives behind an upcoming Vatican-backed symposium. More>>
Berlin police say 20 people forced their way into Syria's embassy in the German capital and damaged offices there. More>>
A health official says two protesters have been killed by police gunfire in clashes with police in Suez, Egypt. More>>
Philippine officials say gunmen who seized Swiss and Dutch tourists on a bird-watching trip in a remote southern province could be planning to move the hostages to an island stronghold of al-Qaida-linked militants notorious for ransom kidnappings. More>>
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won the leadership race of his Likud Party over his ultranationalist rival. More>>
A group of Internet hackers says it has attacked the website of Brazil's second largest private sector bank, one day after doing the same with the country's largest private bank. More>>
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- Mozambique's chief disaster management official says 32 people have died in recent storms and flooding. Joao Ribeiro, director of the National Disasters Management Institute, More>>
Mexican prosecutors have launched an investigation of former officials, and three ex-governors of border state of Tamaulipas say they are the among those named in the probe. More>>
A Nigerian court has dimissed fraud charges against a top Nigerian politician and his deputy, both accused of diverting more than $244 million in bank loans. More>>
Britain's financial regulator has imposed a record fine on a former executive of the private equity firm J.C. Flowers. More>>
Greece says it has all but concluded a crucial deal to write off half its privately-held debt. More>>
A top official says the European Union realizes it has not done enough to get out of its financial crisis and must do more to stimulate the it economy. More>>
Authorities in the Dominican Republic say human remains and drug paraphernalia have been found in the wreckage of a small plane found in a remote southwestern area. More>>
The Vatican has rewritten its 2010 anti-money laundering law after European inspectors found that it didn't fully meet their tough standards to combat the financing of terrorism. More>>
Haiti's president is backing away from a possible pardon for former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. President Michel Martelly says he will let justice run its course in the case of the man known as "Baby Doc." More>>
A magnitude-5.5 earthquake rattled Yamanashi prefecture in central Japan on Saturday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and no tsunami warning was issued. More>>
An assistant U.S. Army chaplain who pleaded guilty to producing child pornography in Puerto Rico has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison. More>>
Police in Senegal fired tear gas in a square where hundreds have been protesting the constitutional court's decision to allow President Abdoulaye Wade to run for a third term in next month's election. More>>
Senegal's constitutional court has ruled that the country's president for the past 11 years was eligible to run for a third term in next month's election. More>>
The Pentagon's decision to cut the size of the Army by 80,000 soldiers will force the military to rely more on the National Guard and reserves, particularly if the U.S. gets into two major, long-term combat operations at the same time, according to the top Army officer. More>>
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- A local official in Mali confirmed that Tuareg fighters had opened a fifth front, attacking a town in the center of the country only hours after attacking one in the remote east. Cheickna More>>
PARIS (AP) -- Airbus parent company EADS NV has named Tom Enders its new chief executive. He will take over later this year from Louis Gallois. The national balance of power at the French-German conglomerate More>>
COLONIA JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- Mitt Romney leaves out one tiny detail as he campaigns to win Florida's Hispanic vote: his Mexican heritage. The Republican presidential candidate's father, George, was More>>
CAIRO (AP) -- A Nobel Peace laureate is demanding that Iran release three opposition leaders who have been confined to house arrest for nearly a year. Shirin Ebadi calls on "all freedom-loving people More>>
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