UK: No close solution to Assange standoff
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is still sheltering inside Ecuador's Embassy in London.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is still sheltering inside Ecuador's Embassy in London.
Mitt Romney's support for Israel will likely earn the presumptive Republican presidential nominee a warm welcome from Israeli leaders when he meets with them on Sunday.
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano is continuing to spout gases and hot rock fragments and it is dusting towns on its flanks with volcanic ash.
Prosecutors say 12 sets of skeletal remains found near the U.S. border are those of women. It's in a region notorious for the slaying of young women.
An Argentine newborn who survived nearly 12 hours in a coffin in a morgue after hospital workers gave her up for dead is showing a series of complications common among infants born three months premature.
Pakistan's parliament has unanimously approved new guidelines for the country's troubled ties with the United States on Thursday, in what could be an important step in putting relations back on track.
The dismemberment slayings of four youths whose bodies were left cut to pieces in plastic bags has horrified the central Mexican city of Cuernavaca.
Libya's prime minister is meeting with lawmakers and thanking them for their "tremendous support" in backing rebel efforts to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi.
Angela Castro, an elder sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, has died following a long illness, a sibling confirmed Wednesday.
The top U.S. commander for Africa says he is increasingly concerned about the likelihood that terrorist groups in Somalia, North Africa and Nigeria want to coordinate their training, funding and terror activities.
A U.S. lawyer representing 70 survivors of the Costa Concordia capsizing says he will push for changes in maritime regulations and laws to make the cruise ship industry safer.
An energy official says the amount of Russian gas flowing to Italy is increasing again after days of reduced deliveries prompted the Italian government to order emergency measures.
Striking police officers in Brazil's third-largest city are refusing to leave a legislature building they've occupied for a week.
The Federal Reserve says it is unlikely to raise interest rates before late 2014, extending a period of record-low rates by more than a year. The Fed says it is keeping rates low to help lift a weak but modestly growing economy.
The euro is falling against the dollar on worries that Greece might not reach a deal with its creditors.
Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come.
Italian officials say experts can begin pumping fuel from a capsized cruise ship while divers continue the search for people still missing.
Northern Ireland's major maternity hospital has evacuated its unit for premature babies after three died from a bacterial infection.
The Port of Long Beach is finalizing a $4.6 billion lease with a major Hong Kong-based shipping container line.
Mexican police say they have captured one of the main smugglers of illegal weapons for the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Berlin's twice-yearly Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week has opened its doors, with an Austrian designer giving her collection a low-key look at a time when Europe faces economic gloom.
A New York City school employee has lost her job over accusations she faked her daughter's death so she could take a vacation to Costa Rica.
Santa and his reindeer have already left the North Pole and are racing around the world for Christmas Eve.
After a year of tough negotiations, Germany has agreed to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims worldwide -- mostly survivors who were once starving children in Nazi ghettos, or were forced to live in hiding for fear of death.
TEHRAN, IRAN (AP) -- Iran has banned foreign media from covering any rallies in front of British diplomatic missions in the capital
