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Vatican on Anglicans: celibacy rule unchanged

The Vatican has confirmed that opening its door to married Anglican priests doesn't mean the Roman Catholic church's requirement for celibacy for clergy is changing.

  • China executes 9 Uighurs over July ethnic riots

    Chinese state media says an initial group of nine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in July's deadly ethnic rioting in the country's far west.

  • French envoy in NKorea for talks on ties, nukes

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy began talks Monday with North Korea on establishing diplomatic relations and the international standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear programs.

  • Zimbabwe lawyer: witness tortured in weapons trial

    Prosecutors want to prevent a top aide to Zimbabwe's prime minister from arguing that evidence against him in a weapons trial was obtained through torture.

  • Key facts about the Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall stood for nearly three decades, the most potent symbol of Cold War divisions. Its collapse helped herald the wider collapse of communism across eastern Europe.

  • FILE - In this Nov. 9, 1938 file photo, firefighters are seen at the Fasanenstrasse synagogue, Berlin's biggest house of Jewish worship, after Nazis set fire to it in anti-Jewish demonstrations held throughout Germany. As Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 more subdued tributes were held to mark the 71st anniversary of the Nazi's Kristallnacht anti-Semitic pogrom.

    Germany marks anniversary of anti-Semitic pogrom

    As Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday, more subdued tributes were held to mark the 71st anniversary of the Nazi's Kristallnacht anti-Semitic pogrom.

  • Prosecutors demand life for court killing suspect

    Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a man who has admitted to fatally stabbing a pregnant Egyptian in a German court in a case that triggered outrage across the Muslim world.

  • In this June 1, 2009 photo, police officers await questioning by army officials at a police station in Monterrey, Mexico. This year alone, police and soldiers have confronted one another more than 65 times, The Associated Press has learned, a growing and dangerous trend in the war on drugs.

    Soldiers wary of often corrupt Mexican police

    When soldiers tried to halt a suspicious-looking SUV that was being escorted through Monterrey by a state policeman, the officer radioed for backup. In minutes, police from 40 patrol cars surrounded the troops, drawing their guns and sending the soldiers diving for cover in an hour-long standoff. Photo Gallery Available

  • Iran still wants nuke talks with world powers

    Iran still wants talks with world powers over fuel supplies to a Tehran nuclear reactor - despite the country's apparent rejection of a U.N. plan to curb Iran's enriched uranium stockpile.

  • A Pakistani security official examines the wreckage of a rickshaw at the site of a suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said.

    Police say suicide bomber kills 3 in Pakistan

    A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said. Photo Gallery Available

  • Henry Kissinger, left, former U.S. Secretary of State, hands over the Freedom Award " in recognition of their fight for democracy and liberty" for the American People to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, during the Freedom Awards Ceremony of the Atlantic Council in Berlin, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009.

    Germany celebrates fall of Berlin Wall

    With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification. Video Available Photo Gallery Available

  • A young Buddhist volunteer looks on as she waits for Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama's preaching session to begin in Tawang, in the northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state, India, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 . Clearly uneasy about the Dalai Lama's weeklong visit to Arunachal Pradesh state, at the heart of a border dispute with neighboring China, Indian officials on Monday clamped down on journalists covering the Dalai Lama's visit.

    India limits media on contentious Dalai Lama trip

    Indian officials clamped down Monday on journalists covering the Dalai Lama's trip to a disputed border area in an apparent effort to minimize tensions with neighboring China. Photo Gallery Available

  • Rain-triggered landslides kill 14 in Indonesia

    Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday.

  • In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il checks corn during a visit to a cooperative farm in North Korea's South Hamgyeong Province.

    Report: NKorea's Kim rides on tricked-out trains

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Il - known for shunning air travel - has six luxurious trains equipped with reception halls, conference rooms and high-tech communication facilities, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday. Photo Gallery Available

  • Taliban prisoners on hunger strike in Kandahar

    About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike at a prison in Kandahar and a delegation from the Ministry of Justice is going to the lockup in southern Afghanistan to investigate their complaints.

  • Binge drinking kills 3rd China official this year

    A Communist Party official in China has died from excessive drinking, the third such alcohol poisoning case that highlights the problems of a drinking culture connected with government and business work, an official newspaper reported Monday.

  • US military: 3 US military personnel die in Iraq

    Two American pilots were killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq while a Marine died of noncombat related injuries in a separate incident, the U.S. military said Monday.

  • World markets get G-20 boost

    World stock markets rose Monday after the Group of 20 leading rich and developing countries agreed to maintain their stimulus measures in the wake of weak U.S. employment figures.

  • In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009, a student poses for a photo as other children wait in line for their classes to start in Huampami in the Peruvian state of Amazonas. Throughout Latin America, native languages are disappearing and Indians are under intense pressure to speak Spanish. At the same time, Indians have little access to post-secondary education. They are ill-prepared by substandard schools, afflicted by high dropout rates and usually short on financial help.

    Fighting the odds to keep Indian tongues alive

    In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class. Photo Gallery Available

  • Oil prices near $79 on US hurricane, weaker dollar

    Oil prices climbed toward $79 a barrel Monday in Asia as Hurricane Ida threatened oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico.


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