Posted: 7:05 PM Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague told a news conference Thursday that a Turkish proposal for a safe zone requires military intervention, which the council is unlikely to approve at the moment.
Posted: 7:03 PM The attack is the latest in a rising number of disturbing shootings this year by Afghans soldiers -- or insurgents dressed as government troops -- on the international forces training them to fight the Taliban as the international coalition withdraws.
Posted: 7:00 PM The officials say the attack Wednesday targeted the vehicle in Hadramawt in eastern Yemen.
Posted: 6:59 PM The head of the federal public security department says 100 federal officers will patrol for the next three months on the border between Brasilia and the neighboring state of Goias.
Posted: 6:57 PM A military spokesman says this is an unprecedented operation to beat drug traffickers in the Central America region.
Posted: 7:18 PM The Syrian opposition leader was responding to the U.S. reaction to French President Francois Hollande's assertion that the Syrian opposition should form a provisional government and that France would recognize it.
Posted: 7:16 PM Efforts to defuse the bomb failed and experts decided to pack it with explosives and detonate it rather than risk an uncontrolled explosion.
Posted: 7:15 PM Many in the Arab world have long suspected that Arafat was poisoned, and a Swiss lab's recent finding of elevated levels of polonium-210 -- a rare and highly lethal radioactive substance -- on Arafat's clothing has fed those claims.
Posted: 7:14 PM Iranians have spent much of the past week peppering the company's message board with complaints about how they are unable to connect to the massive multiplayer game, which boasts more than 9 million subscribers worldwide.
Posted: 8:28 PM George Clooney headlined a fundraiser Monday that took in more than a half-million dollars for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, the second dinner this year where the actor has turned his A-list magnetism into political gold.
Posted: 8:27 PM A news agency reports that Iran's top military commander is suing the U.S. for putting his name on its sanctions list.
Posted: 8:27 PM It happened in Kandahar.
Posted: 8:25 PM French President Francois Hollande urged Syria's divided opposition on Monday to form a provisional government, promising that France would recognize it in hope of accelerating the departure of President Bashar Assad's regime as the violence escalates in the Arab country.
Posted: 3:44 AM At least 26 people have been killed in a huge explosion at Venezuela's biggest oil refinery.
Posted: 3:27 AM Residents are being told to stay indoors and warned wind gusts from the strongest typhoon to approach Okinawa in several years could overturn cars and cause waves of up to 40 feet.
Posted: 3:14 AM Chinese state media say 28 people have been killed after a double-decker sleeper bus collided with a methane-laden tanker in north China.
Posted: 4:07 AM The body of Mika Yamamoto, the veteran Japanese journalist killed while covering the civil war in Syria, has returned to Japan from the Mideast.
Posted: 3:58 AM The Mexican Navy says federal police shot at a vehicle carrying two U.S. government employees after the vehicle came under attack from unidentified gunmen.
Posted: 3:56 AM Police in Quebec say a bride-to-be fell to her death in a waterfall today while getting her wedding pictures taken.
Posted: 8:09 PM A new global fund on climate change that aims to channel $100 billion a year in aid to poor countries selected officials from South Africa and Australia as its leaders at its first meeting Thursday.
Posted: 8:07 PM Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Francois Hollande were meeting Thursday before both hold talks over the next two days with Greece's new prime minister, Antonis Samaras.
Posted: 8:06 PM It wasn't immediately clear what sparked the hostilities.
Posted: 8:05 PM It's heading toward Florida.
Posted: 2:45 PM Tropical Storm Isaac in the Caribbean is expected to reach hurricane strength Friday morning.
Posted: 7:32 PM Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker says that a potential extension to Greece's bailout program will depend on a report into the country's finances by international debt inspectors.
