Updated: 10:35 AM Israeli rescue services say at least 20 people are dead and dozens seriously injured after a tourist bus overturned near the popular red sea resort town of Eilat.

Updated: 10:14 AM It's a sign that criminal proceedings could be starting in the case of the journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush Sunday in Baghdad.

Posted: 10:10 AM French police have neutralized explosives discovered today in a restroom of a prestigious Paris department store.

Updated: 8:41 AM An Iraqi government official says the journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush has been handed over to the Iraqi military command in Baghdad.

Posted: 7:55 AM Most international stock markets edged up in cautious trading ahead of an expected interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve later today.

Posted: 10:18 AM International stock markets rebounded today on renewed hopes of a bailout for troubled U.S. Automakers.

Posted: 10:04 AM No shoe sightings to report in Afghanistan.

Updated: 3:00 PM The top U.N. Envoy in Iraq is urging the Shiite-led government to treat prisoners from the Saddam Hussein era fairly.

Posted: 9:59 AM Iraqi police say a suicide truck bomber has killed at least five people at a checkpoint west of Baghdad.

Updated: 9:52 AM President George W. Bush says he doesn't feel insulted and doesn't blame the Iraqi government, after a TV reporter threw shoes at him in Baghdad.

Updated: 9:33 AM Footage of President Bush ducking a pair of shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi reporter.

Updated: 9:24 AM An Iraqi official says a reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush is being held for questioning by Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's guards and is being tested for alcohol and drugs.

Updated: 3:02 PM President George W. Bush is headed back to the U.S. After a whirlwind trip to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Posted: 11:43 AM France's first lady is taking legal action to stop a clothing company from distributing bags bearing a nude black-and-white image of her.

Updated: 11:54 AM A suicide bomber strikes a popular northern Iraq restaurant killing at least 55 and wounding 120

Updated: 10:49 AM The son of slain former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is defending his mother's human rights record, after accepting a U.N. Prize in the field of human rights posthumously in her honor.

Updated: 10:33 AM Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Pentagon is moving to get three of the four combat brigades requested by commanders into Afghanistan by next summer.

Updated: 10:49 AM Clashes have broken out at Athens' main court complex, where two police officers accused in the fatal shooting of a teen were testifying.

Updated: 10:42 AM India is demanding that the U.N. Security Council declare a Pakistan-based Islamic charity a terrorist group.

Updated: 10:30 AM European stock markets took no encouragement from their Asian counterparts today, moving lower in trading.

Updated: 9:42 AM A case of mistaken identity has left six Afghan police dead and at least 13 wounded in a clash with U.S. Special Forces.

Updated: 9:23 AM Britain's Ministry of Defense confirms that its troops will begin withdrawing from Iraq in March and will mostly be gone by June.

Posted: 9:18 AM An International Media Watchdog says a freelance journalist imprisoned in northern Iraq for writing about homosexuality has been pardoned and released.

Updated: 10:56 AM German Cruise Operator Hapag-Lloyd says hundreds of passengers on a round-the-world cruise will disembark before reaching waters off Somalia and fly to Dubai to avoid pirates.

Posted: 10:11 AM Police say groups of high school students have thrown rocks at four police stations in neighborhoods of western Athens. They say police did not respond and no injuries were reported.