Posted: 8:38 PM Sandy is expected to dump at least 10 inches of rain in parts of Jamaica.

Posted: 8:37 PM The town lies along the main highway between Aleppo and the capital, Damascus.

Posted: 8:35 PM It is the latest in a series of economic reforms under President Raul Castro.

Posted: 6:27 AM Back-to-back bombings and a string of shootings have killed at least 17 people in Iraq.

Posted: 6:05 AM Syria's pro-government Ikhbariya TV and an official say an explosion has hit the Old City quarter of Bab Touma in Damascus, killing at least one woman and wounding dozens of other civilians.

Posted: 6:02 AM Traffic wardens say a bus carrying women in southwest Nigeria crashed and plunged off a bridge into a river, killing at least 12 people.

Posted: 6:00 AM A rights group says another Tibetan has set himself on fire while shouting slogans calling for the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet.

Posted: 8:54 AM A shocking photo of firefighters and civil defense personnel holding down a young, bound bear and pulling its ears has sparked outrage in Mexico and prompted fines for those involved.

Posted: 8:52 AM Lebanon's prime minister says the deadly car bombing in Beirut has links to the civil war in neighboring Syria.

Posted: 8:50 AM French rescue services and police are evacuating hundreds of pilgrims from hotels threatened by floodwaters from a rain-swollen river in the Roman Catholic shrine town of Lourdes.

Posted: 8:48 AM An heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune accused in the hit-and-run death of a policeman in Thailand tested positively for cocaine in his blood, Thai authorities said Saturday.

Posted: 6:51 PM Despite anger over shooting of the girl being treated in the United Kingdom.

Posted: 6:50 PM Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sported a camouflage vest over a white tunic Wednesday as he sat at his defense table in a heavily guarded courtroom on the U.S. base in Cuba.

Posted: 6:49 PM Because the exact nature of Malala Yousufzai's brain injuries hasn't been made public, it's difficult to gauge what such improvements may mean.

Posted: 7:03 PM The Cuban government announced Tuesday that it will eliminate a half-century-old restriction that requires citizens to get an exit visa to leave the country.

Posted: 8:55 PM The girl (Malala Yousufzai) was flown to England today from Pakistan, where she had been shot in the head by the Taliban a week ago in retaliation for her activism promoting the education of girls.

Posted: 8:54 PM A Pakistani teen shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education and criticizing militants has arrived in Britain, where she is to get specialized care.

Posted: 8:53 PM Spokesman Abdel-Moneim al-Hurr says only two of the 120 have been arrested since their escape Monday. It is the second jailbreak in Tripoli this year.

Posted: 8:51 PM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week said he would order new elections, months ahead of time, because the parliament could not agree on a new budget.

Posted: 8:30 AM U.S. officials say the U.S. knew that Mexican marines had killed the head of the widely feared Zetas drug cartel before the body was stolen in a pre-dawn raid from a Mexican funeral home.

Posted: 8:22 AM Police in South Korea say a 61-year-old man set a fire at Seoul's main government complex before killing himself.

Posted: 8:18 AM Afghan counternarcotics police are burning more than 24 tons of narcotics and other illegal substances on the outskirts of Kabul.

Posted: 8:14 AM Iranian officials have denied any role in recent cyberattacks against oil and gas companies in the Persian Gulf.

Posted: 7:30 PM Egypt's official news agency says the country's prosecutor general is refusing to resign, though the president ordered him dismissed to defuse public anger over acquittals in a case of brutality against protesters.

Posted: 7:29 PM The U.S. Geological Survey says Thursday's magnitude-5.5 quake took place at 2:22 p.m. (1:22 p.m. EST; 1722 GMT) and was centered 11 miles (18 kilometers) from the city of Los Andes.