Posted: 7:21 PM Twenty-one other policemen are missing and presumed kidnapped.

Posted: 6:43 PM Mohammed Morsi said Wednesday he acknowledges the "respectable" proportion that voted against the constitution drafted by his Islamist allies, but offered no concrete gestures to an opposition that has so far rejected his dialogue and vowed to fight the charter.

Posted: 6:42 PM From inside and outside the country.

Posted: 6:41 PM The 94-year-old had been in the hospital since Dec. 8.

Posted: 3:23 PM Russia's parliament approves a measure to stop adoptions of Russian children by U.S. parents.

Posted: 1:00 PM Many feel the results of the vote, and feel the constitutional process was rushed.

Posted: 10:20 PM Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet has resigned to clear the way for a vote in parliament to formally install conservative Shinzo Abe as Japan's new leader.

Updated: 10:02 PM U.S. military officials are investigating the apparent suicide of a Navy SEAL commander in Afghanistan.

Posted: 7:59 AM Family members of a charismatic Christian preacher whose church is banned as a cult in China are calling for his release from prison after he apparently suffered a stroke that left him unable to walk and speak normally.

Posted: 7:53 AM Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood claims that the disputed Islamist-backed constitution has passed with a 64 percent `yes' vote after a two-round referendum.

Posted: 7:51 AM South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu says he is praying for a prompt recovery for former leader Nelson Mandela, who has been hospitalized for more than two weeks.

Posted: 7:49 AM Lebanese airport officials say the international envoy for Syria's civil war has arrived in Beirut and will travel by land to Damascus to meet with the country's president.

Posted: 10:36 PM North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for the development of more powerful rockets after last week's successful launch of a satellite into space.

Posted: 10:24 PM Venezuela's government says President Hugo Chavez's condition is becoming increasingly stable as the socialist leader recovers from a cancer-related operation in Cuba.

Updated: 7:34 AM The lawyer of a Tunisian man suspected of involvement in the U.S. consulate attack in Libya says his client has been questioned by the FBI.

Posted: 7:32 AM Russia's foreign minister says the Syrian government has consolidated its chemical weapons in one or two locations amid a rebel onslaught.

Posted: 7:29 AM Afghan officials say they are investigating allegations by neighboring Pakistan that Afghan forces severely beat Pakistani nationals.

Posted: 7:28 AM Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have arrested a young woman for allegedly throwing stones at government forces during anti-India protests two years ago. She has been charged with attempted murder.

Posted: 6:53 PM An Egyptian security official says ousted president Hosni Mubarak has been transferred to a Cairo military hospital, after slipping and injuring his head and chest in prison.

Posted: 6:52 PM The $45 million Marriott hotel is expected to create some 200 jobs and open in early 2015.

Posted: 6:51 PM Vice President Nicolas Maduro declined to speculate when asked about scenarios if the ailing president is unable to take the oath of office on Jan. 10.

Posted: 7:02 PM An Interior Ministry committee on Monday gave intermediate approval to the construction of 1,500 housing units in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, a part of the city Palestinians claim for a future capital.

Posted: 7:00 PM Three workers at a Syrian steel plant, including an Italian, have been kidnapped, officials said Monday.

Posted: 6:59 PM For the second day in a row, bombs targeted residents of ethnically disputed areas.

Posted: 6:58 PM Spain, with 25 percent unemployment, is battling to reduce its deficit and emerge from its second recession in three years.