Mexico's state-owned oil company says 14 have died and 80 are injured in an office building explosion at its headquarters in the capital.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Fishermen using illegal nets are suspected of killing dozens of dolphins that were found this week off Sri Lanka's northwest coast.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A top Polish meat safety official says his country is DNA-testing meat samples at seven facilities to see if any are the source of horse meat discovered this month in Irish-produced burgers.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Need a condom delivered to your doorstep in an hour? Then Dubai is the place to be.

BERLIN (AP) - Police say a fire has destroyed a camel farm in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany, killing 86 animals and causing up to €2 million (US$ 2.7 million) in damage.

U.S. officials say Israel was targeting a weapons convoy when it launched a rare airstrike inside Syria late Tuesday.

A magnitude-6.7 earthquake has shaken northern Chile but authorities say there are no reports of injuries or damage.

TORONTO (AP) - The first in a new generation of long-awaited BlackBerrys will go on sale in the next week in Canada and the United Kingdom, but won't be released in the U.S. until March.

MILAN (AP) - Fiat SpA, the Italian automaker that controls Chrysler LLC, saw fourth quarter earnings more than double thanks to strong North American sales that more than compensated for a weak performance in Europe.

SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) - A lawyer representing the owner of the nightclub in southern Brazil where 235 people died in a fire last weekend says his client "regrets it very much" but insisted he was only partly to blame.

Germans are emptying fewer beer steins these days.

LONDON (AP) - A genetic variant commonly found in Chinese people may help explain why some got seriously ill with swine flu, a discovery scientists say could help pinpoint why flu viruses hit some populations particularly hard and change how they are treated.

BRUSSELS (AP) - King Albert of Belgium has told 600 dignitaries that recent scandals involving his family have given him "a lesson in humility."

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao (AP) - The first sign of debris from a missing plane that was carrying the CEO of Italian fashion house Missoni has surfaced in the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao.

Japan's prime minister says he is willing to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help mend ties hurt by an island dispute.

A U.S. military official says the Pentagon is considering setting up a drone base in northwest Africa to increase intelligence collection on Islamic militants in the region.

There was no alarm, no extinguishers, no sprinklers and almost no escape from the nightclub that became a death trap for more than 200 Brazilian college students.

One expert says Iran's latest rocket achievement is "nothing to get too excited about."

Beijing's pollution has reached especially high levels again as smog blankets much of China's central and eastern areas.

Britain's Foreign Office says it is aware of reports about a potential threat against the U.K. embassy in Tripoli, the capital of Libya.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Two Sept. 11 defendants delayed the start of their hearing Monday at Guantanamo when they refused to respond to questions from their judge in the case.

MOSCOW (AP) - Sergei Magnitsky died more than three years ago in a Russian jail but authorities are moving to put him on trial in a Russian court. The whistle-blowing lawyer died in 2009 after being arrested on charges of tax fraud - the same fraud in which he alleged that Interior Ministry officials had a hand.

SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazilian police say they've made three arrests and are seeking a fourth person in connection with a nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people.

Japan is relaxing restrictions on U.S. beef imports that had been in place due to fears of mad-cow disease.

A Pakistani mining official says a methane gas explosion in a private coal mine in the southwest has killed eight miners.