President Francois Hollande says that companies that pay their employees more than 1 million euros ($1.3 million) will see their tax bill on those salaries rise to 75 percent.

Iran and North Korea have blocked adoption of a global treaty that would regulate the multimillion-dollar international arms trade.

A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts has successfully docked with the International Space Station, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting lab to six.

Thousands of North Koreans have turned out for a mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader's call to arms.

The intervention brigade is unprecedented in U.N. peacekeeping because of its offensive mandate.

The failure makes more likely a possible technical government with a well-defined mission to take on urgent tasks to protect the Italian economy

The defendant in Thursday's ruling was Mamdouh Hamamreh, a reporter for the Hamas-linked Al-Quds TV.

A Kremlin statement says the exercise will involve 36 vessels, an unspecified number of airplanes and up to 7,000 troops.

The Mass was held in the Casal del Marmo facility in Rome, where 46 young men and women currently are detained.

Lebanon is a resource-poor nation and any finds could help it pay off one of the highest debt rates in the world.

A judge in South Africa says Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend, can leave South Africa to compete in international competition, with conditions.

A Thai man has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for selling video CDs of an Australian TV news segment deemed offensive to Thailand's royal family.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Paris for talks with French officials about aid to the Syrian opposition and the situation in Mali.

A man from the United Arab Emirates who was infected with a new SARS-related virus has died in Munich, German authorities said Tuesday.

Europe's leading institutions clashed in a rare sign of public discord Tuesday over what shape future financial rescues will take following the bailout for Cyprus, creating further uncertainty and concern about the safety of keeping large deposits in European banks.

A teenager adopted by an American couple has returned to Russia, claiming that his adoptive family treated him badly and that he lived on the streets of Philadelphia and stole just to survive, Russian state media reported.

The stamp of approval came from the Beit Yosef private rabbinic group, which certifies foods as compliant with Jewish dietary restrictions.

It was Sarkozy's first reaction to a judge's decision last week to issue preliminary charges against him in the case, thus formally placing him under investigation.

Omani officials have made no official comment.

The emergency credit is a key support measure as it is not clear how many depositors will pull their money out once banks reopen. The credit support would help banks weather that.

Jonathan Evans has led MI5 as director general since 2007, and Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May announced to lawmakers Monday that the spy chief would be "moving on" after 33 years in the security services.

The fraudsters were convicted earlier this month of attempting to bilk the government of 2.8 million pounds ($4.2 million) in a plot reminiscent of the Academy Award-winning hit "Argo" - but without that movie's heroic hostage rescue.

They arrived in the "Panda Express," a specially outfitted plane branded with an image of a panda on its exterior.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are "on the same page" when it comes to peace talks with the Taliban.

After failing for a week to find a solution at home to a crisis that could force it into bankruptcy, Cypriot politicians were turning to the European Union on Sunday in a last-ditch effort to help the island nation forge a viable plan to secure an international bailout.