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  • Anti-abortion protesters holding placards walk through Ireland's capital, Dublin, in an anti-abortion protest Saturday, July 6, 2013. More than 35,000 activists marched to the parliament building to oppose Irish government plans to enact a bill legalizing terminations for women in life-threatening pregnancies. The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill is expected to be passed into law next week.

    Deadlines come and go in Ireland's abortion vote

    Ireland's lawmakers were supposed to have voted by now. Will they pass the country's first abortion bill Thursday? Photo Gallery Available

  • Judges release Greek hunger striker on bail

    A Greek court has ruled that an anarchist who went on hunger strike after being held in pre-trial detention for nearly three years should be released on bail, a day after a doctor warned he was at the "final stage" of life.

  • Fresh fighting erupts in restive South Sudan state

    Fresh violence erupted between two rival tribes in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state, officials said Thursday, giving no details of casualties in the region that is also the scene of an ongoing military assault against a rebel group.

  • FILE - This is a Wednesday, May 8, 2013. file photo of Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, center, as he walks with the Leader of the Opposition Ed Milliband and other lawmakers from the House of Commons, through the central lobby towards the House of Lords to hear Britain's Queen Elizabeth II deliver the Queen's Speech to Parliament at the Palace of Westminster in London . An independent watchdog has proposed an 11 percent pay raise for British members of parliament despite a cap on public sector salaries. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority announced recommendations Thursday July 11, 2013 to increase MPs' annual salaries to around 74,000 pounds ($112,000) while reducing pensions and additional expenses.

    UK watchdog proposes parliamentary pay raise

    An independent watchdog has proposed an 11 percent pay raise for British members of parliament despite a cap on public sector salaries. Photo Gallery Available

  • Iraq attacks leave 31 dead, mostly security forces

    Insurgents in Iraq launched two days of bloody assaults at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that killed at least 31 people, most of them members of the security forces serving in restive Sunni-dominated areas, authorities said Thursday.

  • Greek plane lands safely in Israel after emergency

    A Greek plane landed safely in Tel Aviv without anyone being hurt on Thursday after issuing a rare mayday call on its approach to Israel's Ben Gurion international airport.

  • French lawsuit filed over alleged NSA snooping

    Two human rights groups filed a lawsuit in Paris on Thursday seeking an investigation into whether the U.S. National Security Agency violated French privacy laws by secretly collecting huge amounts of personal data.

  • Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic enters the courtroom of the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, July 11, 2013. Judges at the ICTY are ruling on a prosecution appeal against Karadzic's acquittal on genocide charge, one of the key allegations against him over atrocities during Bosnia's bloody war.

    UN judges reinstate Karadzic genocide charge

    Appeals judges at the United Nations' Yugoslav war crimes tribunal reinstated Thursday a genocide charge against Radovan Karadzic linked to a campaign of killing and mistreating non-Serbs at the start of the Bosnian war in 1992. Photo Gallery Available

  • A Bosnian woman says prayers next to the coffin of a child during a funeral ceremony at the memorial center in Potocari, near Srebrenica, 160 kms east of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, July 11, 2013. People from around Bosnia and abroad have begun arriving in Srebrenica Thursday to commemorate 18th anniversary of the 1995 massacre and rebury recently identified victims exhumed from mass graves. The victims’ bodies are still being exhumed from mass graves in the area, where Serbs had dumped them in an attempt to cover up the crime. Identified victims are buried each year on the massacre’s anniversary at a memorial cemetery near Srebrenica.

    Baby among 409 buried on Srebrenica anniversary

    Hava Muhic stood Thursday above the smallest pit in the cemetery, near her husband's grave. It was dug for her baby girl - who was born and died here 18 years ago on the day of the worst massacre Europe has seen since World War II. Photo Gallery Available

  • Egypt: Suspected militants kill Christian

    Security officials say suspected militants have killed a Christian merchant in the northern Sinai Peninsula.

  • In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, cars are cramped into a parking lot during a day of heavy pollution in Beijing, China. China plans to increase the number of cities that restrict vehicle purchases in a bid to fight pollution and traffic congestion, state media reported Thursday, July 11, 2013. With more than 13 million cars sold in China last year, motor vehicles and their emissions have emerged as the chief culprit for the air pollution in large cities.

    China may further limit car purchases to curb smog

    More Chinese cities may restrict vehicle purchases in a bid to fight air pollution and traffic congestion, state media reported. Photo Gallery Available

  • In this May 24, 2013 photo, a pile of burned car tires and human bones from the Meikhtila massacre rest in foreground as the local cemetery caretaker, Khin Mar Cho stands nearby. Twenty-five Buddhists were sentenced to as many as 15 years in prison for murder and other crimes during a night of rioting, burning and killing in central Myanmar, following weeks in which it seemed only Muslims were being punished for sectarian violence that was aimed primarily at members of their own religion. But the sentences issued Wednesday and Thursday, July 11. 2013, did not erase a sense of unequal justice: A day earlier, a Muslim received a life sentence for murdering one of the 43 people killed March 20 and 21 in the central Myanmar town of Meikhtila.

    25 Buddhists sentenced in deadly Myanmar riot

    Twenty-five Buddhists were sentenced to as many as 15 years in prison for murder and other crimes during a night of rioting, burning and killing in central Myanmar, following weeks in which it seemed only Muslims were being punished for sectarian violence aimed primarily at members of their own religion. Photo Gallery Available

  • A man takes a photo from the inside as a Greenpeace protester climbs up The Shard, the tallest building in western Europe, during a protest against the oil company Shell's drilling in the Arctic, Thursday, July 11, 2013.

    Environmental activists scale London's Shard tower

    Six environmental activists scaled Western Europe's tallest building on Thursday to protest drilling in the Arctic by oil companies - and were arrested after reaching the top. Photo Gallery Available

  • Asian stocks consolidate gains from Bernanke boost

    Asian stock markets meandered Friday, largely holding on to gains sparked the day before by the Federal Reserve's vow to continue supporting the U.S. economy with low interest rates.

  • Rajesh Tiwari, defense lawyer for the accused juvenile in the Delhi gang rape case, speaks to media personnel outside the Juvenile Justice Board building in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 11, 2013. The Indian juvenile court will hand down a verdict later this month in the fatal December gang rape of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, Tiwari said Thursday. The verdict would be the first handed down in the rape case, which led to furious street protests in India and sparked major reforms to the nation's antiquated sexual assault laws.

    Lawyer: India rape verdict to be given July 25

    An Indian juvenile court will hand down a verdict later this month in the fatal December gang rape of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, a defense lawyer said Thursday. Photo Gallery Available

  • Bailiffs stand near a cage in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, 11, 2013. Russian news agencies say a court in Moscow has found dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky guilty of tax evasion, concluding an unusual posthumous trial. Magnitsky died in prison of untreated pancreatitis in 2009, months after alleging that organized criminals colluded with corrupt Interior Ministry officials to claim a $230 million tax rebate through illegally obtained subsidiaries of Browder's Hermitage Capital investment company.

    Dead Russian lawyer Magnitsky found guilty

    More than three years after he died in prison, whistle-blowing Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was found guilty of tax evasion by a Moscow court Wednesday. Photo Gallery Available

  • Report: New Saudi missile site detected

    A prominent defense analysis group says it has identified a previously undisclosed missile site in Saudi Arabia's desert with signs suggesting Iran and Israel could be targeted in a possible launch from the location.

  • Twin roadside bombing kills 5 in Afghanistan

    Officials say a twin bombing in southern Afghanistan has killed five people, three civilians whose car struck a roadside bomb and two police officers who had rushed to the scene to help the victims when the second bomb went off.

  • Residents look towards the site of a massive landslide on Wuxiangang Hill of Sanxi village in Dujiangyan city in southwestern China's Sichuan province Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Flooding in western China, the worst in 50 years for some areas, triggered a landslide Wednesday that buried about 30 people, trapped hundreds in a highway tunnel and destroyed a high-profile memorial to a devastating 2008 earthquake. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

    At least 31 people dead in western China flooding

    Floodwaters surging through Himalayan foothills in western China have swept bridges, houses and hillsides into roiling brown torrents, leaving at least 31 people dead and 166 missing Thursday, as heavy rains buffeted many parts of the country. Photo Gallery Available

  • 1 person injured in 5th Spanish bull run

    One person has been hospitalized after several thousand people tested their speed and bravery by dashing with six fighting bulls through the streets of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona.

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