Posted: 10:24 PM Venezuela's government says President Hugo Chavez's condition is becoming increasingly stable as the socialist leader recovers from a cancer-related operation in Cuba.

Updated: 7:34 AM The lawyer of a Tunisian man suspected of involvement in the U.S. consulate attack in Libya says his client has been questioned by the FBI.

Posted: 7:32 AM Russia's foreign minister says the Syrian government has consolidated its chemical weapons in one or two locations amid a rebel onslaught.

Posted: 7:29 AM Afghan officials say they are investigating allegations by neighboring Pakistan that Afghan forces severely beat Pakistani nationals.

Posted: 7:28 AM Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have arrested a young woman for allegedly throwing stones at government forces during anti-India protests two years ago. She has been charged with attempted murder.

Posted: 6:53 PM An Egyptian security official says ousted president Hosni Mubarak has been transferred to a Cairo military hospital, after slipping and injuring his head and chest in prison.

Posted: 6:52 PM The $45 million Marriott hotel is expected to create some 200 jobs and open in early 2015.

Posted: 6:51 PM Vice President Nicolas Maduro declined to speculate when asked about scenarios if the ailing president is unable to take the oath of office on Jan. 10.

Posted: 7:02 PM An Interior Ministry committee on Monday gave intermediate approval to the construction of 1,500 housing units in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, a part of the city Palestinians claim for a future capital.

Posted: 7:00 PM Three workers at a Syrian steel plant, including an Italian, have been kidnapped, officials said Monday.

Posted: 6:59 PM For the second day in a row, bombs targeted residents of ethnically disputed areas.

Posted: 6:58 PM Spain, with 25 percent unemployment, is battling to reduce its deficit and emerge from its second recession in three years.

Posted: 6:57 PM If his resignation is accepted, it will be a blow to Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who has been engaged in a power struggle with the judiciary since late last month.

Posted: 7:42 AM Cuban authorities say a Norwegian-owned platform has arrived in waters off the island's north-central coast for exploratory drilling by Russian oil company Zarubezhneft.

Posted: 7:33 AM A Venezuelan government official says President Hugo Chavez has been receiving daily visits from former Cuban leader Fidel Castro while recovering from cancer surgery in Cuba.

Posted: 7:29 AM North Korea's top leadership is calling the successful launch of a satellite proof that Kim Jong Un has the strength to lead the country one year after his father's death.

Posted: 7:26 AM Police say they are engaged in a gunbattle with militants believed to have been involved in an attack on the military side of an international airport in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

Posted: 8:49 AM Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the U.S. and NATO troops transferring security to Afghan forces should leave Afghan villages as soon as possible.

Posted: 8:46 AM A service was held in London on Saturday to mourn the death of a nurse found hanging in her room three days after she had been duped by a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge.

Posted: 8:44 AM Coast guard officials say they have found the bodies of 18 people who were trying to cross illegally into Greece when their boat capsized early Friday.

Posted: 8:43 AM A half-day before a young gunman committed one of the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history, a Chinese farmer took a kitchen knife and hacked at more than 20 children as they entered their rural elementary school.

Posted: 6:57 PM The ministry said Thursday that the reports are nothing more than a conspiracy.

Posted: 6:55 PM Information Minister Ernesto Villegas says Chavez suffered "bleeding" that required, as he put it, "corrective measures."

Posted: 6:53 PM The case against former DCRI police agency chief Bernard Squarcini was an issue in France's presidential campaign this year.

Posted: 6:52 PM While Avigdor Lieberman was cleared of more serious allegations against him, the indictment sparked immediate calls for the controversial politician to step down.