3 hours ago - By Associated Press
German authorities say thieves posing as police officers have made off with euro1 million ($1.45 million) in gold and jewelry.
3 hours ago - By Associated Press
Police have arrested two doctors and at least 42 patients accused of defrauding a major health insurance company, the U.S. attorney for Puerto Rico said Tuesday.

5 hours ago - By David Rising, Associated Press Writer
German authorities are investigating whether a man due to testify at the war-crimes trial of John Demjanjuk may have committed killings himself as a concentration camp guard, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
4 hours ago - By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press Writer
Pomoj and pantalono — Esperanto for apples and trousers — went on sale in some Warsaw shops Tuesday as Europe marked 150 years since the birth of the creator of the international language.
5 hours ago - By Clarence Roy-Macaulay, Associated Press Writer
A woman barred from running for chief of her district because of her gender said Tuesday she has appealed for a new election and a place on the ballot.

6 hours ago - By Ian Deitch, Associated Press Writer
Iran is close to a "technological breakthrough" that would enable it to build nuclear weapons, Israel's military intelligence chief said in a rare public assessment Tuesday.

6 hours ago - By Jennifer Quinn, Associated Press Writer
The road out of this quiet market town was strewn with red and yellow roses on Tuesday, flowers that fell from the hearse carrying the body of Lance Corporal Adam Drane — the 100th British soldier to die this year in Afghanistan.

6 hours ago - By Olga R. Rodriguez, Associated Presss Writer
President Felipe Calderon is proposing runoff elections in future presidential contests and re-election for many officials in Mexico's most dramatic political reform attempt in decades.
7 hours ago - By Associated Press
Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia on Tuesday won recognition by the South Pacific island nation of Nauru, one of the world's smallest states.

11 hours ago - By Deb Riechmann, Associated Press Writer
A suicide car bomber struck Tuesday near the home of a former Afghan vice president and a hotel frequented by Westerners, killing at least eight people and wounding nearly 40 in a neighborhood considered one of Kabul's safest.

11 hours ago - By KHALID TANVEER, Associated Press Writer
A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in a market close to a politician's home in central Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 33 people and showing the increasing reach of Taliban militants in the nuclear-armed nation.
9 hours ago - By Alessandra Rizzo, Associated Press Writer
Pope Benedict XVI called for urgent action to protect the environment, saying Tuesday that climate change and natural catastrophes threaten the rights to life, food, health — and ultimately peace.
10 hours ago - By Douglas Birch, Associated Press Writers
As other countries struggle to cut greenhouse gas emissions, two ex-Soviet industrial powerhouses have found themselves heirs to an unlikely windfall.
10 hours ago - By Associated Press
Thousands of Fiji villagers fled to shelters as a tropical cyclone battered the South Pacific nation, causing flooding, damaging homes and power lines, and killing three people, officials said Tuesday.

10 hours ago - By Associated Press
At least nine communist rebels and one army soldier were killed in clashes Tuesday as troops closed in on a guerrilla encampment in a southern Philippine province, a regional military spokesman said.

11 hours ago - By Gregory Katz, Associated Press Writer
It's not likely that any Israeli officials will be coming to London this holiday season. Not because British Airways may go on strike, but because they face the threat of arrest while giving speeches, shopping or visiting friends.
11 hours ago - By Eliane Engeler, Associated Press Writer
The international Red Cross has made its first visit to Afghan prisoners held by the Taliban in the northwest of the country, the organization said Tuesday.