Updated: 7:21 PM It wandered into the office of a wildlife park in eastern Indonesia.

Posted: 6:48 PM The potential pending withdrawal, floated by Laurent Fabius in a newspaper interview published Tuesday night, came as forces from France and Chad secured a key bastion in northern Mali, the city of Kidal.

Posted: 7:20 PM In her first video statement since she was nearly killed, a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban remained defiant in arguing for girls' education, saying Monday she would keep up the same campaign that led to her attack.

Updated: 11:12 AM Scientists say they have found the 500-year-old remains of England's King Richard III under a parking lot in the city of Leicester.

Posted: 7:55 AM Syria's official news agency says a former member of parliament and three members of his family have been killed in a rebel-held area the near the northern city of Aleppo.

Posted: 8:14 AM Activists say Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar Assad's troops have made advances in the country's north after capturing a strategic neighborhood near Aleppo's airport.

Posted: 8:09 AM Israeli troops are firing tear gas and stun grenades to disperse Palestinian activists who have pitched a camp in the West Bank to protest Israeli restrictions on building in the territory.

Posted: 7:15 PM State TV says the strike targeted a military research center in the area of Jermana.

Posted: 6:52 PM International Atomic Energy Agency spokeswoman Gill Tudor told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Iran's denial of "an incident" at the Fordo uranium enrichment plant is "consistent with our observations."

Updated: 9:16 AM At least 245 people were killed in a nightclub fire in southern Brazil on Sunday after a band's pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze.

Posted: 7:43 AM Syria's state-run news agency says troops have raided an opposition stronghold near Damascus, killing an unspecified number of rebels and uncovering tunnels used by them to move about and smuggle weapons.

Posted: 7:38 AM A spokesman says five Indian sailors kidnapped last month off of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta have been released.

Posted: 7:27 AM Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev says the death of a whistle-blowing lawyer in prison will not adversely affect the country's business climate.

Posted: 7:22 AM Police say a fire in a garment factory has killed six female workers and injured another five in the Bangladesh capital, just months after more than 100 died in another factory fire.

Posted: 1:00 PM A U.S. research institute says recent satellite photos show North Korea could be almost ready to carry out its threat to conduct a nuclear test.

Posted: 7:06 PM Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was wounded in a missile attack in the southern city of Saada on Nov. 28, according to SABA news agency.

Posted: 6:48 PM A search has been launched.

Posted: 6:47 PM The latest six victims were found early Wednesday.

Posted: 1:55 PM Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told lawmakers on Wednesday that she had gotten an update on the probe in recent days from FBI Director Robert Mueller, who returned from a trip to Libya last week.

Posted: 7:06 PM The rocket launch is considered part of a covert program to develop ballistic missiles that can carry warheads.

Posted: 7:05 PM The U.S. Embassy in Moscow says some Russian children caught in limbo by a ban on adoptions by Americans have left for the United States with their new parents.

Posted: 1:12 PM Israeli is holding national elections Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a hard-liner, is expected to win re-election.

Updated: 3:35 PM Watch the second inauguration of Barack Obama.

Updated: 9:35 PM Algerian military claims to have rescued 100 of 132 hostages.

Posted: 5:26 PM Germany's central bank is bring back $36 billion in gold bars it has stored in the United States and France.