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03/09/2010 08:44 AM
A U.S. missionary held for more than a month in Haiti on kidnapping charges flew back to the United States after being released from prison, while the leader of her Baptist group remained in custody.
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03/09/2010 08:56 AM
The two "bad options" for Iran letting the country develop nuclear weapons or using force to destroy its nuclear capabilities are closer than they were a year ago, Israel's U.N. ambassador warned Tuesday.
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03/09/2010 09:26 AM
Indonesia's president says a top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the 2002 Bali bombings has been identified as the man shot dead by police in a raid on the island of Java.
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03/09/2010 05:34 AM
Seven people have been arrested in the Republic of Ireland over a suspected plot to kill a Swedish artist who portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a dog and had a $100,000 Al Qaeda bounty on his head.
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03/09/2010 09:20 AM
British dog owners may be forced to microchip their pets and take out insurance, part of a proposed crackdown on the country's dangerous canines.
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03/09/2010 12:50 AM
A homicide attack Tuesday on NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan killed two international service members, the military alliance said.
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03/09/2010 12:19 AM
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to head to Afghanistan on Wednesday, his first trip to Tehran's eastern neighbor since the re-election last August of his counterpart Hamid Karzai.
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03/09/2010 11:09 AM
Paul Bristol has been jailed in England for at least 22 years for murdering his ex-girlfriend after he saw a picture of her on the Internet with another man.
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03/09/2010 10:39 AM
A 70-year-old grandmother in China was reportedly beaten and buried alive by property developers trying to take possession of her land.
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03/09/2010 10:23 AM
Three months after it was stolen, the corpse of Cyprus' former president was found Tuesday reburied in another grave. The country's justice minister said it had been held for ransom.
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03/09/2010 09:44 AM
Homes in eastern areas of Turkey prone to earthquakes must be better built to withstand jolts like the magnitude 6 temblor that toppled village houses and killed 51 people this week.
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03/09/2010 01:20 AM
Israel approves construction of 1,600 new homes for Jews in disputed east Jerusalem a move that immediately clouded Biden visit aimed at repairing strained ties and kickstarting Mideast peace talks.
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03/09/2010 07:54 AM
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says a new treaty limiting U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals could be signed within two or three weeks.
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03/09/2010 08:41 AM
A skydiver miraculously survived after plummeting 3,000 feet to the ground when her parachute became tangled, The Sun reported Tuesday.
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03/09/2010 11:43 AM
Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities.
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03/09/2010 06:51 AM
A former British bomb disposal expert was due to appear in court Tuesday charged with attempting to murder his pregnant wife and eight-year-old son after a car exploded in Kent, southeast England.
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03/09/2010 07:09 AM
A British soldier saved his comrades by scooping up a live Taliban grenade and throwing it straight back at the enemy moments before it exploded.
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03/09/2010 03:28 AM
A Japanese government-appointed panel on Tuesday confirmed the existence of once-secret Cold War-era pacts between Japan and the U.S. on nuclear arms and other issues
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