Posted: 7:04 PM Gov. Luis Fortuno said a few thousand outstanding ballots would not be enough to close the gap with his main challenger, Alejandro Garcia Padilla.

Posted: 7:02 PM President Francois Hollande's Cabinet pushed ahead with a controversial French bill Wednesday that could see gay marriage legalized early next year.

Posted: 7:00 PM The bones -- thought to belong to a creature that roamed the earth between 200,000 and 50,000 years ago -- were discovered by accident.

Posted: 6:59 PM Western efforts to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad have shifted dramatically today, with Britain announcing it will deal directly with rebel military leaders.

Posted: 1:52 PM Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is accused of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan.

Posted: 7:22 AM The Tibetan government-in-exile says a man has died after setting himself on fire in the latest self-immolation protesting Chinese rule.

Posted: 7:18 AM The Kenya Red Cross says at least 10 people were wounded in a grenade attack on a church service at a police camp in northern Kenya.

Posted: 7:12 AM Anti-racism campaigners are staging vigils across Germany to commemorate the victims of a far-right terror group whose existence came to light a year ago.

Posted: 7:10 AM A police helicopter flying low over Atlanta on a nighttime search for a missing 9-year-old boy plunged to the ground in a northwest neighborhood of shops and apartments, killing the two officers aboard, authorities said Sunday.

Posted: 10:35 PM A U.S. student at an American university in Rome who was allegedly stabbed by his roommate 25 times after a night of Halloween partying remains hospitalized in an intensive care unit.

Posted: 7:36 AM The mayor of Mexico's resort city of Acapulco says he will fire 500 police officers because they failed tests used to identify corrupt officers.

Posted: 7:32 AM Syrian activists say rebels and government troops are fighting for control of a key airbase in the country's north.

Posted: 7:29 AM Iraqi authorities say insurgents have gunned down three soldiers at a checkpoint near the country's capital.

Posted: 7:26 AM A Japanese nuclear watchdog says members of a government team assigned to set reactor safety measures received funding from utility companies or atomic industry manufacturers.

Posted: 10:37 PM CIA security team headed to Benghazi after trying to get heavy weapons from Libyan forces.

Posted: 7:13 PM Protesters disrupted the session for a second day in a row, complaining about the makeup of the Cabinet.

Posted: 7:12 PM A ministry statement said most had large amounts of explosives.

Posted: 7:11 PM Five centuries after Michelangelo's ceiling of frescoes was inaugurated in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday celebrated the "symphony of figures" contemplated during prayer.

Posted: 8:01 PM The TAP news agency says the violence occurred after a group of ultraconservative Muslims known as Salafis armed with swords, knives and sticks tried to attack a police station Tuesday night.

Posted: 8:00 PM Syrian forces have stepped up their use of airpower against rebels seeking to topple President Bashar Assad as opposition fighters have made gains on the ground.

Posted: 7:59 PM A Ministry of Agriculture official in southern Haiti says that Hurricane Sandy destroyed 70 percent of the crops in his region and caused widespread deaths of livestock.

Posted: 7:52 PM France, the land of wine, is planning heavy taxes on beer, and that is not going down well with brewers -- even in other nations.

Posted: 7:51 PM Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras told reporters the austerity measures, worth (euro) 13.5 billion ($17.4 billion), would be submitted to parliament next week.

Posted: 7:17 PM The fire has been extinguished and there are no injuries.

Posted: 5:13 PM Government warplanes conduct multiple air strikes against rebel emplacements outside of the Syrian capital of Damascus Monday.