PRAGUE (AP) - A publicist for an upcoming Marilyn Monroe exhibition in Prague says that photographs of the star have been stolen.Alice Titzova of the PR agency 2media says the photos, stolen late ... (0 comments)
BEIJING (AP) - A mentally ill man attacked six primary school students and a woman with a cleaver in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said Wednesday.All se ... (0 comments)
BEIRUT (AP) - Syria's main opposition group is urging rebels to come from around the country to reinforce Qusair, a western town under attack by Syrian troops and members of Lebanon's Hezbollah g ... (0 comments)
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Groups of youth have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural center as the riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread ... (0 comments)
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan says it shares "identical views" on foreign policy with China, whose premier is beginning a two-day visit to Islamabad in the latest sign of the tight relationship betwe ... (0 comments)
BEIJING (AP) - A mentally ill man stabbed six primary school students and an adult woman in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said Wednesday.All seven victi ... (0 comments)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - An 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier who climbed Mount Everest five years ago, but just missed becoming the oldest man to reach the summit, was back on the mountain Wednes ... (0 comments)
BERLIN (AP) - Germany is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner with the unveiling Wednesday of a monument in the composer's birthplace of Leipzig.Wagner's compositions such as the o ... (0 comments)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Hard-line Islamist students protested Wednesday in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. It wa ... (0 comments)
CAIRO (AP) - Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation in the vo ... (0 comments)
BEIJING (AP) - Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers - and even sits on the toilet - in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-ri ... (0 comments)
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistani cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan has been discharged from the hospital roughly two weeks after he sustained serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at ... (0 comments)
CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian state TV says six policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the Sinai Peninsula last week have been freed.The report says the men were let go in the m ... (0 comments)
CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian state TV says 6 policemen, border guard abducted in Sinai have been released. (0 comments)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's government is looking into re-opening official talks with North Korea to resolve questions over the abductions of Japanese citizens decades ago, raising concerns among allies ... (0 comments)
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - A North Korean state media dispatch shows that leader Kim Jong Un has named a hardline general as his new military chief.The new title for Kim Kyok Sik came in a dis ... (0 comments)
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - State media dispatch shows North Korea has named hardline general as new military chief. (0 comments)
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - A "special envoy" for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Pyongyang on Wednesday for China, the North's only major political and economic benefactor. State media re ... (0 comments)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea says that a "special envoy" for leader Kim Jong Un has left for China. (0 comments)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Bands of young people hurling firebombs and stones clashed with police outside Chile's congress Tuesday after thousands of students and workers staged a protest march before P ... (0 comments)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The illegal trade in elephant ivory may constitute an important source of funding for armed groups, including the Lord's Resistance Army, threatening peace and security in cent ... (0 comments)
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - A conservative party is challenging a judicial ruling that requires all of Brazil's notary publics to register same-sex civil unions as marriages if couples request it.Last w ... (0 comments)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Swiss oil company says it will start selling regular gasoline mixed with ethanol as part of a pilot program in Puerto Rico.Puma Energy Caribe LLC says 56 gas stations ... (0 comments)
ENUGU, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's military said Tuesday that the West African nation would release some of the prisoners it has taken in the country's fight against Islamic extremists - including al ... (0 comments)
LONDON (AP) - For fans of the boy wizard, this could be the most coveted copy of all the "Harry Potter" books in the world.A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that con ... (0 comments)