Posted: 1:10 PM Commuters on a train line in northern Stockholm were met with an unusual sight this week: male train drivers and conductors wearing skirts to work.

Posted: 12:34 PM Israel's prime minister says there has been a "significant rise" in cyber-attacks on Israel by Iran.

Posted: 12:32 PM Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been taking an increasingly belligerent tone as anti-government protesters continue to denounce him at demonstrations.

Posted: 11:46 AM President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping's 50-minute stroll through an estate in the California desert could mark a notable moment in the relationship between the heads of the world's two largest economies.

Posted: 5:02 PM Authorities say a boat carrying up to 60 asylum seekers capsized in the Indian Ocean. At least nine bodies have been recovered and no survivors have yet been found.

Posted: 4:51 PM A top U.S. national security official says President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping found "quite a bit of alignment" on the subject of North Korea and agreed that North Korea has to be denuclearized.

Posted: 4:17 PM Willi Sitte, one of East Germany's most eminent artists and a key representative of Communism's preferred socialist realism painting style, has died at 92.

Posted: 4:14 PM When President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping sat down for dinner, they feasted on several dishes prepared by one of America's top chefs.

Posted: 12:59 PM Bringing a new medicine to market in Africa requires 54 separate applications to each country on the continent, a time-intensive process that could be costing lives. African leaders are now trying to move toward a regional and eventually continentwide approach to speed the process.

Posted: 12:42 PM Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country is 'firm in upholding cybersecurity" and cautions that technology is a "double edged-sword" that can drive progress but can impede governments.

Posted: 12:04 PM Nelson Mandela is described as being in "serious but stable" condition after being taken to a hospital to be treated for a recurring lung infection.

Posted: 11:33 AM The British government says that some $4 billion in new funding has been secured to help fight hunger and malnutrition.

Posted: 11:24 AM Yemen's president is warning that al-Qaida militants in his country are trying to retake areas they once controlled in the south, but says a military offensive this week helped thwart those plans.

Posted: 11:22 AM Just days after taking power, Pakistan's new government has lodged a protest with the U.S. and summoned a top American envoy to vent its frustration following a U.S. drone strike that intelligence officials say killed seven militants.

Posted: 11:20 AM Coalition forces in Afghanistan say an investigation is underway into an insider attack that killed three American trainers today.

Posted: 11:02 AM Iran's former top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next week's presidential elections, says he will reset Iran's economy and reverse President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's foreign policy directions if elected.

Posted: 10:54 AM Italy has complained to Austrian authorities about a Vienna pub selling Panini named after Mafia bosses as well as other sandwiches that make light of Italians slain by Sicilian mobsters.

Updated: 1:54 PM Swedish Princess Madeleine fell in love in the Big Apple. Now she has said "yes" to New York banker Christopher O'Neill in a lavish wedding ceremony in Stockholm.

Posted: 6:49 PM President Barack Obama is welcoming Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the U.S. expressing hope that extended and informal talks will lead to a "new model of cooperation" between the two countries.

Posted: 12:00 PM State media say an express bus has burst into flames in eastern China, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 30.

Posted: 11:58 AM Vladimir Putin's divorce from his wife of nearly 30 years has broken a taboo for Russian officials, who almost never speak publicly about their personal life let alone their personal problems.

Posted: 11:55 AM A senior European Union official on Friday criticized Turkish police's harsh crackdown on protesters in the last week, telling an audience that included the prime minister that abusers should be punished and that Turkey should aspire to the highest standards of democracy.

Posted: 11:50 AM A Colorado man accused of attacking his estranged wife and kidnapping his three-year-old son has been ordered deported from Canada.

Posted: 11:48 AM Nicaragua is trying to revive a centuries-old dream of building an inter-ocean canal, a project experts say could take 11 years to build, cost $40 billion and require digging about 130 miles (200 kilometers) of waterway, 200 feet (60 meters) deep in many places.

Posted: 5:38 PM Nigeria's ongoing battle with Islamic extremists in its northeast remains almost a shadow war, as details from the fighting remain sketchy even after military officials invited journalists to the front lines.