Posted: 6:49 AM A government official says the death toll from a fire on a train in southern India has climbed to 47.

Posted: 10:56 PM The queen and James Bond have given the London Olympics a royal entrance like no other in an opening ceremony that rolled to the rock of the Beatles, the Stones and The Who.

Posted: 8:00 AM The Afghan president has issued an ambitious list of proposed reforms aimed at fighting graft, bribery and nepotism. The move follows pressure from donor nations.

Posted: 8:53 PM The statement from the U.S.-led coalition did not provide the nationalities of the two nor any other details of the Thursday attack.

Posted: 8:51 PM Fears of terrorism have been at the center of preparations for the Olympics.

Posted: 8:49 PM Human Rights Watch global initiative director Minky Worden says the ruling could hurt efforts to ease restrictions against women and girls engaging in sports in Saudi Arabia.

Posted: 6:44 PM Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass, son of a former defense minister, said in a video broadcast on Al-Arabiya TV that Syrians must work together to build a new, democratic country.

Posted: 6:59 PM The shootings took place yesterday at a training academy in western Afghanistan.

Posted: 6:57 PM The statement today from a Foreign Ministry spokesman was Syria's first acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction, something that's long been suspected.

Posted: 6:56 PM Pakistani intelligence officials say U.S. drones have fired eight missiles.

Posted: 6:11 AM Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned from a number of News Corp. subsidiary boards in Britain and the United States, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday.

Posted: 6:08 AM Norway on Sunday paused to commemorate the 77 victims of a bomb and gun massacre that shocked the peaceful nation one year ago, a tragedy that the prime minister said had brought Norwegians together in defense of democracy and tolerance.

Posted: 5:43 PM Russia said it would veto the original British draft but joined the 14 other council members Friday in supporting a revised British text.

Posted: 5:42 PM Nayarit state government spokesman Sergio Canedo says another 29 people were injured in the accident Friday in the town of Tequepexpan.

Posted: 5:40 PM Greece wants to cut its deficit to 7.3 percent of annual output this year, from 9.1 percent last year.

Posted: 5:39 PM Argentine customs police say drug-sniffing dogs found a half-ton of cocaine in machinery bound for Africa.

Posted: 7:00 PM Israel's Foreign Minister says the deadly bus explosion in Bulgaria that has killed at least six people was caused by a bomb placed on the vehicle.

Posted: 8:39 PM The Security Council is deeply divided over a new resolution on Syria as international envoy Kofi Annan's plan for halting the fighting appears dead and the violence in the Arab state escalates.

Posted: 8:38 PM The official Korean Central News Agency says North Korea has named a new vice marshal.

Posted: 8:34 AM Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is suggesting he will attempt a return to power under his old party name.

Posted: 8:30 AM Egyptian security officials say they will not give in to demands of a Bedouin man who took two Americans and their local translator hostage in the Sinai Peninsula.

Posted: 5:43 AM A Russian Soyuz craft has launched into the morning skies over Kazakhstan carrying three astronauts on their way to the international space station.

Posted: 5:41 AM Authorities say a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims has skidded off a highway in southern Nepal, killing at least 35 people.

Posted: 5:37 AM Afghan authorities say a suicide attacker blew himself up in a wedding hall in northern Afghanistan, killing more than 20 people, including Ahmad Khan Samangani, a well-known commander in northern Afghanistan who was also a member of parliament.

Posted: 8:18 AM A French official says a private plane has caught fire and crashed on landing at Le Castellet airport in southern France, killing the three Americans on board.