Posted: 6:59 AM Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Iron Lady, was laid to rest Wednesday with a level of pomp and protest reflecting her status as a commanding, polarizing political figure.

Posted: 10:49 AM A military official says the death toll in Pakistan from a major earthquake that shook both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border has risen to 34.

Posted: 9:36 AM The top medical official at the Guantanamo Bay prison says five detainees were injured in the weekend clash with guards.

Posted: 1:51 PM Cities worldwide are stepping up security following explosions at the Boston Marathon.

Posted: 8:12 AM RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has indicated support of allowing women there to drive.

Updated: 7:46 AM JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South African officials say an elephant has overturned a vehicle carrying two tourists, injuring one of them.

Posted: 4:11 AM Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed at least seven members of a family traveling in a trailer towed by a tractor in southern Afghanistan.

Posted: 3:01 PM Two Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed four people in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border.

Posted: 11:39 AM North Korea has rebuffed South Korea's proposal to resolve rising tensions through dialogue.

Updated: 5:23 PM China is feeling the man-made heat of global warming. That's the conclusion drawn by scientists looking at the burning of fossil fuels and one country's rise in daily temperature spikes.

Posted: 2:14 PM The Popocatepetl volcano has spewed a dense cloud of ash over the central Mexico state of Puebla, with ash falling to the ground in several towns.

Updated: 7:12 AM The U.S. and China are committing to a process aimed at ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons.

Posted: 12:06 PM Tunisia's Interior Ministry posted on its Facebook page Saturday the photos and names of five suspects in February's assassination of a leftist politician.

Posted: 10:46 AM Police say a Lion Air plane with more than 100 passengers has skidded off the end of the runway into the sea on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. There was no immediate word on casualties.

Posted: 4:04 PM Police in Canada say they have received new information and are reopening the case of a teen girl who hanged herself after she was allegedly raped and bullied for months.

Posted: 4:00 PM Officials say five Malian soldiers including a senior officer are dead after a combat helicopter crash in central Mali.

Posted: 3:55 PM Opponents of the late Margaret Thatcher are taking a kind of musical revenge on the former prime minister, pushing the song "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead" up the British charts in a posthumous protest over her polarizing policies.

Posted: 3:53 PM A Canadian judge has ordered a former porn actor accused of dismembering his Chinese lover and mailing the body parts to political parties to stand trial on first-degree murder.

Posted: 3:51 PM A new commander has been named to lead the Guantanamo Bay prison amid a hunger strike that has dragged on for more than two months.

Posted: 1:46 PM British police say they have finally identified a man whose body was found on a suburban London street in September after falling from the undercarriage of a plane as it prepared to land at Heathrow Airport.

Posted: 1:44 PM Authorities in Guatemala say four people have died and 96 others have been hospitalized for food poisoning in a town west of the Central American nation's capital.

Posted: 1:36 PM If you believe the bookmakers, the first child of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge will be a girl named Alexandra.

Posted: 1:31 PM The Turkish parliament has approved changes to anti-terrorism laws to reduce the number of prosecutions for the non-violent expression of opinions, but critics say the revisions don't go far enough.

Updated: 8:32 AM Toyota, Honda and Nissan are recalling more than 2 million vehicles globally for an identical problem with air bags on the passenger side whose inflator may burst, sending plastic pieces flying.

Posted: 4:12 PM Dutch authorities are recalling 50,000 tons of meat sold as beef across Europe because its exact source cannot be established and it may contain horse meat, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.