Posted: 6:54 PM Mexico's president-elect is proposing a government reorganization that would put the scandal-hit federal police under control of the department responsible for domestic security.
Posted: 6:53 PM McAfee tells The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he is in hiding with a young woman somewhere in Belize.
Posted: 8:12 PM Egypt's powerful Muslim Brotherhood has sharply criticized Israel over its recent airstrikes that killed seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Posted: 8:10 PM Neither France nor Europe will intervene militarily to oust al-Qaida and its allies from northern Mali -- not even with air strikes, the French defense minister said Tuesday.
Posted: 8:09 PM Mikhail Gorbachev says he's feeling the effects of old age, but aims to stay active as long as he can.
Posted: 8:08 PM Tuesday's approval by the 27 member states came after pressure from the European Parliament, which had called foot-dragging on the issue shameful.
Posted: 8:07 PM Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in two U.S. states limits that country's "moral authority" to ask other nations to combat or restrict illegal drug trafficking.
Posted: 7:02 PM The groups complain that the negotiations over the agreement lack transparency, and in the absence of an elected parliament, the president holds legislative authority without oversight.
Posted: 7:01 PM Scotland Yard said the 24-year-old, whose name and nationality were not provided, was taken into custody by counterterrorism officers after immigration officials stopped him once he arrived on a flight from Bahrain Monday morning.
Posted: 7:00 PM There are fresh fears today that Syria's civil war could drag Israel into a conflict that has already spilled into Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.
Posted: 6:58 PM The head of the Central American country's disaster agency says some people in outlying regions were believed to have died Wednesday in their collapsed homes, but they were later found alive elsewhere.
Posted: 7:49 AM The man in line to oversee China's massive but rapidly slowing economy for the coming decade speaks English and comes from a generation of politicians schooled during greater openness to liberal Western ideas than their predecessors.
Posted: 7:44 AM Officials say landmines have killed nine civilians in separate incidents in eastern and southern Afghanistan.
Posted: 7:42 AM The Palestinian president says he will ask the U.N. General Assembly this month to recognize an independent Palestine, despite pressure to abandon the bid.
Posted: 7:34 AM Government officials say an amendment to insert stronger rights for children into Ireland's constitution is set to be approved with an approximately 60 percent "yes" votes.
Posted: 7:34 AM An American regarded as a father of computer graphics, an Indian literary critic and a Japanese molecular cell biologist have received the Kyoto Prize, Japan's highest private award for global achievement.
Posted: 7:30 AM China's leadership transition is officially edging ahead, with the executive body of the Communist Party Congress forwarding a list of names to congress delegates for review.
Posted: 7:28 AM BBC Director General George Entwistle says a report wrongly implicating a senior politician in child-abuse allegations should never have been broadcast.
Posted: 7:26 AM An official says Sri Lanka's bar association will ask President Mahinda Rajapaksa to reconsider an impeachment bid against the country's chief justice. The news follows a rare general meeting of the legal association to discuss threats to the independence of the judiciary.
Posted: 7:03 PM President Otto Perez Molina says the quake affected as many as 1.2 million people as it shook nearly the entire country.
Posted: 7:00 PM A suicide bombing and some roadside bombs were used to carry out the attacks.
Posted: 6:59 PM Wolfgang Schaeuble said Thursday that Europe's crisis response and the European Central Bank's pledge to do whatever it takes to defend the 17-nation currency has "won back some confidence, but that is fragile."
Posted: 6:57 PM The Vatican spokesman said Thursday that Pope Benedict XVI will start tweeting from a personal Twitter account, perhaps before the end of the year.
Posted: 6:56 PM The explosive-filled tunnel was intended to kill, or to try kidnap soldiers and was one the largest that Israeli forces had seen in years, according to an Israeli military spokeswoman.
Posted: 7:05 PM Officials say at least 55 military, intelligence and police officers have been killed in Yemen since mid-2011.
