Posted: 10:03 AM An Iranian man convicted of disfiguring a woman's face with acid has been spared eye-for-eye punishment.

Posted: 10:37 AM JAKARTA, INDONESIA (AP) -- Local fishermen say they found the body of an American surfer who went missing last weekend in waters off western Indonesia.

Updated: 10:05 AM The Italian senate has voted to keep funding for troops in Afghanistan but to reduce its participation in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon and in NATO's Libyan operations.

Updated: 10:44 AM Germany's national disease control center says it is declaring the country's deadly e.coli outbreak over.

Updated: 10:45 AM NATO says it will continue bombing the Libyan regime's armed forces as long as needed, and the country's leader, Moammar Gadhafi, cannot "wait us out."

Updated: 11:12 AM GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N.'s top human rights official says the U.S. breached international law when it executed a Mexican citizen.

Posted: 10:33 AM News International says it is shutting down the News of the World tabloid that is at the center of Britain's phone hacking scandal.

Updated: 9:52 AM The South Korean city of Pyeongchang has been awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics after failing in two previous attempts.

Posted: 4:44 PM Scientists are presenting the strongest evidence yet U.N. Peacekeepers imported the cholera strain that’s killed more than 5,500 people in Haiti.

Posted: 11:56 AM Canada's Prime Minister has unveiled a personal flag for Prince William for use while he's in Canada.

Posted: 11:34 AM Ugandan officials say 22 students and a teacher died after lightning struck their school in the country's midwest.

Posted: 12:10 PM Austria’s state TV is apologizing for broadcasting a 1930s Walt Disney cartoon critics say reinforces anti-Semitic stereotypes of the era.

Posted: 12:08 PM The black Toyota SUV pulled up to the security checkpoint when 22-year-old Somali soldier Abdi Hassan said he ordered the driver to switch the headlights off.

Posted: 12:07 PM An Army transport plane has taken off from a military airport in the Czech capital to take four rare wild horses to Mongolia as part of the Prague Zoo’s efforts to reintroduce the endangered Przewalski Horse to its native habitat.

Posted: 12:06 PM President Barack Obama is telling Puerto Ricans he’s committed to their success and self-determination as he makes the first official presidential visit to the U.S. Island Territory in 50 years.

Posted: 5:07 PM Two Libyan analysts say another member of Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s regime has defected.

Posted: 5:01 PM The operator of Japan’s damaged nuclear power plant says six workers who may have exceeded the government’s radiation exposure limit aren’t showing any immediate health problems, but that they’ll need long-term monitoring.

Posted: 4:40 PM Clouds of ash from Chile's erupting volcano are again forcing cancellations of dozens of flights in countries from Brazil to Argentina.

Posted: 4:12 PM Ratko Mladic has been placed in U.N. custody at a detention unit to await trial for genocide, 16 years after he was charged by the court for the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II.

Updated: 11:37 AM Police have discovered a bar at prison in northern Mexico that served beer, tequila and vodka to inmates.

Posted: 11:30 AM The U.S. man married to Peruvian Presidential Candidate Keiko Fujimori has acknowledged that his father pleaded guilty to U.S. tax evasion charges 11 years ago and received three years probation.

Posted: 11:28 AM A senior Libyan official says he has no knowledge about the fate of an American journalist missing for more than nine weeks.

Posted: 11:27 AM Egypt's official news agency says the Rafah border crossing with Gaza will be permanently opened for Palestinians on Saturday -- a move that will significantly ease a blockade of the impoverished territory.

Posted: 9:23 AM A leaked government document shows Denmark plans to lay claim to the North Pole and other areas in the Arctic, where melting ice is uncovering new shipping routes, fishing grounds and drilling opportunities for oil and gas.

Posted: 9:21 AM NATO and Afghan officials say joint operations in Eastern Afghanistan have killed at least 13 insurgents.