Posted: 6:58 PM At least 100,000 people gathered today outside the presidential palace in Cairo.

Posted: 6:57 PM Franklin Barazarte said in a phone interview Tuesday from New York that he tossed flaming liquid on Wayne Houchin's head as a "blessing" during a Nov. 26 taping of the show.

Posted: 7:11 PM Prosecutor Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi told reporters Monday that an investigation into the death of Sattar Beheshti has found that he was beaten from the day of his arrest.

Updated: 7:08 PM Amnesty International released a report Tuesday that includes excerpts of an al-Qaida video showing a decapitation, amputation and crucifixion.

Posted: 7:07 PM It was not clear whether Jihad Makdissi had defected from President Bashar Assad's regime.

Updated: 7:03 PM Palace officials say Prince William and his wife are expecting their first child.

Posted: 8:28 AM Iran's oil minister has said the country plans to increase its oil production capacity to up to 5.2 million barrels per day by early 2016.

Posted: 8:27 AM China is expressing concern over its ally North Korea's plans to launch a long-range rocket in mid-December.

Posted: 8:24 AM Egypt's state-run news agency MENA says five Germans and three Egyptians have been killed in a road accident south of the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada.

Posted: 8:22 AM Syria's news agency and activists say a car bomb has exploded near a mosque in the central Homs province, killing at least seven people.

Posted: 7:54 AM Japan's space agency says it is investigating a possible leak of data about its Epsilon rocket due to a computer virus.

Posted: 7:52 AM Thousands of people waving Egyptian flags and hoisting large pictures of the president are demonstrating across Egypt in support of him.

Posted: 7:50 AM The Bangladesh government says it will give 200,000 takas ($2,500) to the families of those who died in a garment factory fire last week and 50,000 takas ($625) to those who were injured.

Posted: 7:47 AM The Bangladesh government says it will give 200,000 takas ($2,500) to the families of those who died in a garment factory fire last week and 50,000 takas ($625) to those who were injured.

Posted: 7:14 PM Activists in Syria reached Thursday by satellite telephone confirmed the unprecedented blackout, which comes amid intense fighting in the capital, Damascus.

Posted: 7:13 PM Suha Arafat told The Associated Press on Thursday at her home in Malta that the exhumation to determine whether Arafat had been poisoned `'was as if his soul was resurrecting" ahead of Thursday's vote in the General Assembly.

Posted: 7:12 PM The resolution upgrading the Palestinians' status to a nonmember observer state at the United Nations was approved by a more than two-thirds majority of the 193-member world body.

Posted: 7:11 PM Israel's U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor says the only way to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians is through agreements between the parties.

Posted: 7:08 PM Voting "no" Thursday were Israel, the United States and Canada, joined by the Czech Republic, Panama and several Pacific island nations.

Posted: 7:02 PM Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has asked his country's legislature for permission to travel to Cuba for more medical treatment after spending much of the past 18 months fighting cancer.

Posted: 7:01 PM The protest was comparable in size to the daily rallies during last year's 18-day uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak.

Posted: 6:59 PM Mexican soldiers say beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamez had a gun in her hands when she was killed in a hail of gunfire over the weekend.

Posted: 6:58 PM The targets included Shiite mosques in Baghdad, along with a city in a disputed northern region that is at the center of competing claims by ethnic groups.

Posted: 6:57 PM The resolution urges Syrian authorities to immediately release all detainees and calls for a prompt independent international investigation into abuses and violations of international law.

Posted: 7:02 PM Scores had to be rescued from the building as it quickly filled with smoke.