BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A train packed with morning commuters slammed into a downtown station on Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds as passenger cars crumpled and windows exploded around them. It was Argentina’s worst train …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Australian foreign minister Kevin Rudd says he is encouraged by support from government colleagues to challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard for the leadership of their Labor Party….
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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling. An intense morning barrage killed her a…
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VIENNA (AP) — Russia said Wednesday the world should not draw “hasty conclusions” over Iran’s most recent rebuff of U.N. attempts to investigate allegations the Islamic Republic hid secret work on atomic arms, but the U.S. and its allies accused T…
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez has never been one to share decision-making authority. Now, the voluble socialist strongman and acerbic critic of the U.S. may have no choice but to designate a successor….
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GENEVA (AP) — Researchers have found a flaw in the technical setup of an experiment that startled the science world last year by appearing to show particles traveling faster than light….
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Sen. John McCain urged Libya’s militias on Wednesday to integrate themselves into the country’s new national army and called for the reported abuse of prisoners held by the ex-rebels to stop….
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It took Dutch tourist Adriaan little time after landing in Rio to pick out his favorite spot during Carnival, the five-day party that officially ended Wednesday….
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KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Multiple explosions rocked a highway checkpoint in Nigeria’s second-largest city, witnesses said Wednesday, just over a month after a radical Islamist sect claimed an attack there that left at least 185 people dead….
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a plan to build 600 new homes in a settlement deep inside the West Bank, a move that drew rebukes from the United Nations and Palestinians and threatened to raise tensions with the …
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Clashes between Afghan troops and protesters angry over the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. military base left at least seven people dead and dozens wounded Wednesday as anger spread despite U.S. apologies over wha…
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PARIS (AP) — French police released former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Wednesday after nearly 30 hours in custody for questioning about a suspected hotel prostitution ring….
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is officially in Senegal to observe this weekend’s contentious election, met opposition candidates Wednesday in an effort to mediate a growing political standoff in this normal…
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CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian judge on Wednesday set June 2 as the date for the verdict and sentencing in the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, which could put the man who spent nearly 30 years as one of the Arab world’s key strongmen on death r…
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ROME (AP) — Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship found eight bodies Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said….
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced the unwelcome possibility of a coalition crisis on Wednesday after Israel’s Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, overturned a law that has helped ultra-Orthodox Jewish men avoid military s…
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonian prosecutors said Wednesday that a longtime security official and his wife have been detained on suspicion of passing classified information and state secrets to Russia, a case likely to add to longstanding tensions…
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Microsoft on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the European Union’s competition regulator against Motorola Mobility and its soon-to-be owner Google, saying Motorola’s aggressive enforcement of patent rights against rivals br…
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. troops helping in the fight against a brutal rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army are now deployed in four Central African countries, the top U.S. special operations commander for Africa said Wednesday….
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A small Ukrainian nationalist party came under fire Wednesday after a high-profile member suggested a singer of African descent was a bad choice to represent the country in the Eurovision song contest….
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LONDON (AP) — Somalia’s fragile leadership, its neighbors and international allies are meeting in London in the hope of speeding the troubled east African nation’s progress toward a stable government and containing the threat from Islamic militant…
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister says the Jewish state will not bow to foreign pressure in deciding whether to attack Iran….
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece scrambled Wednesday to push through a batch of emergency laws that will further cut incomes and state spending, a day after securing a new bailout and debt relief deal designed to stave off bankruptcy….
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KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — He has never worked outside the home or seen a doctor, and until Wednesday, he had never left his remote mountain village in western Nepal. So 72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi only recently learned he might be the world’s s…
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ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani government official says 17 health workers have been fired for allegedly participating in a CIA scheme to confirm the presence of Osama bin Laden in a northwestern town….
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JIUHUANG FIRST VILLAGE, China (AP) — Police don’t travel far to monitor the goings-on at the Gami Temple at the edge of the Tibetan plateau. The police station sits inside the monastery, just outside the gates to the main prayer hall….
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LONDON (AP) — Respected American journalist Marie Colvin, who spent decades reporting on conflicts from Sri Lanka to Syria, focusing on the suffering of women and children in wartime, died in a fierce shelling attack Wednesday in Syria….
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The shooting deaths of two Indian fishermen mistaken for pirates sparked diplomatic wrangling Wednesday over the arrests of two Italian marines, and some maritime experts are questioning the use of armed guards on merchant ships….
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A spokesman for the union representing ground workers at Frankfurt airport says it will halt its strike ahead of an expected resumption of negotiations….
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BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian security forces stormed a resort island prison where inmates were rioting and restored order Wednesday after several hours of violence that injured a policeman and three inmates….
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BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. and North Korea reopen nuclear talks Thursday that will provide a glimpse into where Pyongyang’s opaque government is heading after Kim Jong Il’s death and test its readiness to dismantle nuclear programs for much-needed ai…
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GENEVA (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday that it was holding a meeting with Syria’s main opposition group in Geneva, a day after the humanitarian agency called for temporary pauses in the fighting so that it can br…
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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The president of Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia on Wednesday survived an assassination attempt unhurt, but two of his bodyguards have died, officials said….
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QUNEITRA CROSSING, Occupied Golan Heights (AP) — Syria’s embattled leader, Bashar Assad, appears to be losing one of his last bastions of reliable support: the Druse Arab community in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights….
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QUNEITRA CROSSING, Occupied Golan Heights (AP) — Syria’s embattled leader, Bashar Assad, appears to be losing one of his last bastions of reliable support: the Druse Arab community in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights….
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SHANGHAI (AP) — Apple Inc. defended its right to use the iPad trademark in China in a heated court hearing Wednesday that pitted the electronics giant against a struggling Chinese electronics company that denies having sold the mainland China righ…
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — As families of the 185 people killed in the Christchurch earthquake marked the one-year anniversary of the disaster Wednesday, signs of a city still broken were all around them….
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MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Inmates set fire to mattresses and trash Tuesday after officials announced that three prisoners would be moved from the prison where 44 gangs members were massacred this week to a maximum security jail in western Mexico….
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president says Seoul is open to talking with an “open heart” if North Korea shows a willingness to improve ties….
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Gongs chimed as thousands of people in ceremonial costumes walked barefoot Wednesday through the marble walkways of Myanmar’s most sacred Buddhist shrine in an annual festival that was banned for more than 20 years under the…
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — In achievement-oriented Taiwan, where studying is a pastime sport among young people, the outdoor complex of basketball courts near National Taiwan University is normally a pretty lonely place, more used to hosting raindrops …
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India – unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake….
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica is developing a new policy to battle crime as gang violence drives the homicide rate higher, the country’s top security official said Tuesday….
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload was granted bail and released on Wednesday after a New Zealand judge determined that authorities have seized any funds he might have used to flee the country….
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LONDON (AP) — Soulful songstress Adele capped a momentous year of Grammy Awards triumph and medical woes with a double win at the U.K.’s Brit music awards Tuesday, taking prizes for album of the year and best British female solo artist before maki…
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor announced proposals Tuesday to fight crime, bolster the U.S. territory’s justice system and strengthen public education in his last address to legislators before the fall elections….
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The bailout has saved Europe, for now, but it’s unlikely to save Greece….
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The bailout has saved Europe, for now, but it’s unlikely to save Greece….
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TABDA, Somalia (AP) — An 80-year-old Somali woman fondly recalled her younger days. There was peace in Somalia then, and people in the town of Tabda in the arid scrublands of the country’s south did not rely on the mercy of others for food….
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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — King Abdullah II on Tuesday blamed Israel for deadlocked Mideast peacemaking in a meeting with U.S. Jewish leaders, the official Petra News Agency said….
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