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Blast rocks intersection in northwest Pakistan

A police official says an explosion has rocked a crowded intersection in a northwest Pakistani city and casualties are feared.

  • Rockets seized by Israeli authorities on a ship near Cyprus, are presented in the port of the Israeli city of Ashdod, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Israeli commandos seized a ship Wednesday that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons from Iran bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas, the largest arms shipment Israel has ever commandeered.

    Israel says major cities in Hezbollah rocket range

    Israel's army chief says Hezbollah guerrillas now possess tens of thousands of rockets, some capable of reaching the country's major cities.

  • France's Kouchner urges Abbas not to step down

    France's foreign minister on Tuesday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas not to step down and vowed to press that point during a trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories in the coming days.

  • FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file picture 88-year-old Heinrich Boere sits in the dock of the court in Aachen, Germany, at the start of his trial. A judge has postponed the trial of the former member of a Nazi hit squad until next week for medical reasons. Aachen state court Presiding Judge Gerd Nohl's decision Tuesday Nov. 10, 2009, came after defense attorneys for Heinrich Boere argued their client could not properly hear the proceedings.

    Nazi hit man trial postponed for medical reasons

    The trial of an 88-year-old man accused of murdering three civilians in wartime Holland as part of a Nazi hit squad was postponed Tuesday until next week on medical grounds.

  • China protesters plead for help from Obama

    A group of protesters pleaded for help Tuesday from President Barack Obama before his visit to China next week, saying anyone seen as a troublemaker is often treated harshly before major events in the capital.

  • King Tut's tomb set for 5 year renovation project

    Egypt and the California-based Getty Conservation Institute announced Tuesday a five year project to restore the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world.

  • Bodies of 6 UK war dead return from Afghanistan

    Hundreds of grieving Britons were expected to line the streets of this small English town on Tuesday to watch the repatriation of the bodies of six soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

  • Oil falls below $79 as Ida drops to tropical storm

    Oil prices fell below $79 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as a storm threatening oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico weakened and investors eyed a volatile dollar.

  • China opposes Dalai Lama's visit to border area

    China's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it opposed and was dissatisfied with India's allowing a visit to a disputed border region by Tibet's exiled leader the Dalai Lama.

  • 4 Australians face charges after auto 'body' wash

    It was just a routine car wash. Except there was no car - and no clothing.

  • Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera speaks during a Mass at the metropolitan cathedral in Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. Roman Catholic clergy, increasingly caught in the middle of Mexico's drug war, are drafting a strategy this week to cope with the violence, aided by advice from colleagues who have faced similar threats in Colombia and Italy.

    Mexican clergy seek global help as violence grows

    Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered men, then face killers in the confessional. Photo Gallery Available

  • FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2009 file, with the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome as a backdrop, doves fly over the cenotaph of the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, as the city marks the 64th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack that devastated the city at the closing days of World War II. In an interview with Japanese broadcaster NHK that ran Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, President Barack Obama said he would be unable to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki on his trip to Japan this weekend due to time constraints but would be willing to do so in the future.

    Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima in future

    President Barack Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki sometime during his presidency but won't have time during this week's trip to Japan to go to the cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs at the end of World War II. Photo Gallery Available

  • Landslide triggered by rains kills 42 in India

    A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 42 people, an official said Tuesday.

  • In this Feb. 12, 2007 file photo, helicopters and transport planes are seen on a tarmac of Futenma Marine Corps Air Station next to Okinawa residential quarters in Ginowan in Okinawa, Japan. For decades, it has been a rallying point for Okinawans frustrated by the realities of sharing their tiny island with tens of thousands of U.S. troops. So when Tokyo and Washington agreed three years ago to move Futenma to a more secluded place _ the product of nearly 12 years of talks _ the deal was hailed as a huge breakthrough. Then Japan got a new government. Now, with President Barack Obama visiting Friday, Nov. 13, and Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, Japan's fledgling liberal Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has put the plan on hold, and the debate about the future of Futenma and its nearly 4,000 Marines is fast becoming a major test of their countries' alliance.

    Marine base debate clouds US-Japan relations

    The deepening debate over the future of a major U.S. Marine base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa has opened a broad rift in Washington's most important alliance in Asia ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to the region this week. Photo Gallery Available

  • Asia stocks track US higher; Europe narrowly mixed

    Asian stocks extended their gains Tuesday after Wall Street touched its highest level for 2009 amid optimism low interest rates would continue to power this year's rally in global markets. European shares were narrowly mixed.

  • Israeli president visits Brazil, ahead of Iran

    Dueling visits to Brazil by the presidents of Israel and Iran are showing the South American powerhouse's growing role in Mideast diplomacy.

  • Gunmen kidnap 3 workers in southern Philippines

    Gunmen in camouflage stormed a plywood factory and abducted three workers Tuesday, a day after suspected Muslim militants beheaded a kidnapped schoolteacher on a nearby southern Philippine island, officials said.

  • US State Dept 'deplores assault' on Cuban bloggers

    The U.S. State Department issued a statement late Monday decrying attacks on three Cuban bloggers, including one who has gained international attention for her searing observations about life on the communist island.

  • Report: Extreme weather will be seen on Yangtze

    Increased droughts, floods and storms will hit China's Yangtze River Basin over the next few decades, the result of rising temperatures globally, according to a report released Tuesday.

  • Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra exits a plane upon arriving at a military air base in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. Cambodia announced that Thailand's fugitive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin arrived Tuesday in Phnom Penh following his appointment as economic adviser to the government, fueling tensions between the neighboring countries.

    Toppled Thai leader arrives in Cambodia

    Thailand's fugitive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived Tuesday in Cambodia following his appointment as economic adviser to the government, fueling tensions between the neighboring countries.


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