Posted: 12:29 PM 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.
Posted: 12:22 PM They arrived in the "Panda Express," a specially outfitted plane branded with an image of a panda on its exterior.
Posted: 9:38 AM 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.
Posted: 11:02 AM 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.
Posted: 10:57 AM The Vatican estimates that 250,000 people jammed St. Peter's Square today to hear Pope Francis celebrate Palm Sunday Mass.
Posted: 10:49 AM Hundreds of Christians in Jerusalem are marking Palm Sunday, the start of the Catholic Holy Week that concludes with Easter.
Updated: 10:45 AM The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is calling for greater United States involvement in Syria through the creation of safe zone that would allow the U.S. military to train opposition forces attempting to overthrow President Bashar Assad.
Posted: 1:19 PM British police say Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled former Russian oligarch who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been found dead in southeast England.
Updated: 11:44 AM The Pentagon says the U.S. has reached an agreement with the Afghanistan government to transfer the Parwan Detention Facility to Afghan control.
Posted: 11:15 AM Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he will follow through with his plans to return to his homeland despite risks of arrest and other threats.
Posted: 11:11 AM Members of Syrian President Bashar Assad's own minority sect who are opposed to his regime are meeting in Cairo amid concerns about their fate in a post-Assad Syria.
Posted: 11:08 AM Pope Francis and former Pope Benedict have concluded their meeting at the papal retreat south of Rome, where Benedict has been living since becoming the first pontiff in 600 years to resign.
Posted: 11:04 AM The Interior Ministry says Spanish, Portuguese and British police have boarded a ship loaded with nearly two tons of cocaine destined for sale in Europe.
Posted: 10:58 AM There are signs that old agriculture disputes could be deal-killers for President Barack Obama's goal of creating the world's largest free-trade agreement.
Posted: 1:16 PM Princess Caroline of Monaco is now a grandmother.
Updated: 1:13 PM A jury has found a 24-year-old Belgian man guilty in four murders, including the slashing deaths of two babies at a day care center in 2009.
Posted: 12:30 PM The Swiss Alpine Club says the number of deaths in the mountains of the Swiss Alps and the Jura fell by a third in 2012 from the previous year due to often-poor weather that kept people away.
Posted: 12:02 PM Nigerian author Chinua Achebe (CHIN'-uh-wah uh-CHEH'-beh), who wrote the classic "Things Fall Apart," has died. He was 82.
Posted: 11:54 AM Pandemonium broke out in the shadow of Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium on Friday as riot police raided an old museum that authorities want razed ahead of the 2014 World Cup, but where a few indigenous people had squatted for years.
Posted: 3:29 PM Brazil, which is the world's most populous Roman Catholic country, allows abortions only in cases of rape or risk to a mother's life or if a fetus is brainless.
Posted: 3:26 PM Zoo officials say the blue-eyed cubs with coats of black stripes on white were born there two months ago and bring the number at the zoo to nine. They say the cubs will soon be able to eat meat.
Posted: 3:24 PM A suicide bomb inside a mosque in Damascus killed a top Sunni Muslim preacher and longtime supporter of President Bashar Assad.
Posted: 3:21 PM Local fishermen have blamed the country's leading electricity generator for the die-off that left a carpet of red prawns on a beach in Coronel, about 330 miles (530 kilometers) south of the capital on Wednesday.
Posted: 3:18 PM The investigation began after officials in the Netherlands, France, Belgium and other countries reported confiscating large amounts of cocaine from flights from the Dominican Republic.
Posted: 9:08 PM Slovenian lawmakers have approved a new, left-leaning government after a previous center-right administration was ousted over corruption allegations.
