Posted: 9:40 PM - A North Korean state media dispatch shows that leader Kim Jong Un has named a hardline general as his new military chief. Read More

Posted: 1:00 PM - Pope Francis has expressed his "closeness to the families of all who died in the Oklahoma tornado," with special concern for "those who lost young children." Read More

Updated: 1:03 PM - Hungarian police say they are investigating an incident in which an elderly man may have been mauled to death by two donkeys. Read More

Posted: 12:53 PM - A Truth Commission investigating human rights abuses under the nation's military dictatorship says that those it finds guilty of torture could be brought to trial. Read More

Posted: 12:55 PM - Three former Ford Motor Co. executives have been charged with crimes against humanity in Argentina for allegedly targeting union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup. Read More

Posted: 12:58 PM - A Moroccan court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African nation. Read More

Posted: 05/20/13 - Residents of a western Mexico area who endured months besieged by a drug cartel cheered the arrival of hundreds of Mexican soldiers Monday. Read More

Updated: 05/20/13 - Officials in Turkey say two hot air balloons collided mid-air during a sightseeing tour of volcanic rock formations today, causing one of them to crash to the ground. Read More

Updated: 05/20/13 - Saudi Arabia says it has recorded another death from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 16. Read More

Posted: 05/20/13 - A Swedish prosecutor says three former executives of automaker Saab Automobile AB have been arrested on accounting fraud charges. Read More