Posted: 3:56 PM Cannes Film Festival begins in the south of France Wednesday with a showing of "The Great Gatsby." The festival lasts 12 days.

Posted: 7:26 AM Iranian state TV says a strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake has jolted the south of the country, injuring at least 15 people.

Posted: 7:19 AM An Afghan official says a bomb has killed a senior provincial intelligence official at his home in a remote northeastern corner of the country.

Posted: 9:25 AM A survivor has been found in the rubble, 17 days after a Bangladesh building collapsed

Updated: 3:58 PM A Belgian prosecutor says 31 people have been detained in three countries in connection with a spectacular $50 million airport diamond heist that was pulled off with clockwork precision.

Updated: 3:58 PM The death toll from the collapse of a building housing five garment factories in Bangladesh has risen to 761.

Updated: 3:58 PM Rescue officials in Italy say the death toll has risen to four after a cargo ship slammed into a control tower in the port of Genoa.

Updated: 3:58 PM Syria says the recent Israeli airstrikes against its territory are a "flagrant violation of international law" and have made the Middle East "more dangerous."

Updated: 3:58 PM An official with the U.S.-led international military coalition says the five troops killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan were all Americans.

Updated: 3:58 PM Israeli officials have confirmed the country's air force carried out a strike against Syria and say it targeted a shipment of advanced missiles.

Posted: 4:00 PM US government will go after US citizens who used Caribbean bank to avoid paying taxes

Updated: 10:25 PM Meeting with company representatives at hotel in Detroit suburbs.

Posted: 5:00 PM Bolivia's president says he is expelling members of an American development agency, accusing them of trying to undermine his government.

Posted: 1:57 PM Popular Dutch Queen Beatrix officially abdicated her throne Tuesday, making her eldest Son, Willem-Alexander, the new King of the Netherlands.

Posted: 1:37 PM Wasting no time, Italy's new prime minister, Enrico Letta, traveled to Germany Tuesday to call for an easing of austerity measures imposed by the European Union.

Posted: 8:42 PM President Barack Obama insisted on Friday that any use of chemical weapons by Syria would change his "calculus" about U.S. military involvement.

Posted: 8:33 PM France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday.

Updated: 3:58 PM Israel's air force is on track to developing drones that within four to five decades would carry out nearly every battlefield operation executed today by piloted aircraft, a high-ranking Israeli officer told The Associated Press Sunday.

Updated: 3:58 PM Officials say fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists in a town in the nation's northeast has killed at least 185 people.

Updated: 3:58 PM The British are relieved the London Marathon, which was run under tight security Sunday, came off without a hitch.

Posted: 10:42 PM 179 people dead and more than 6,700 injured in China earthquake

Posted: 7:54 AM U.K. authorities say a 25-year-old man is suspected to have died from measles as an epidemic continues to sweep across south Wales.

Posted: 7:51 AM A powerful earthquake jolted China's Sichuan province Saturday near where a devastating quake struck five years ago, leaving at least 41 dead and more than 600 injured and prompting state media to warn the casualty toll could climb sharply.

Posted: 7:45 AM The attorney for a man accused of mailing ricin-laced letters to the president and a senator says federal authorities have scant evidence linking her client to the crime.

Posted: 3:43 PM New Zealand's Parliament votes Wednesday to legalize same-sex marriage.