Lawyers for the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that ran aground off Italy's Tuscan coast in 2012, killing 32 people, say prosecutors have rejected their bid for a plea bargain.

A London court has convicted seven men of committing sex crimes against underage girls, some as young as 11.

Brazil's National Council of Justice says notary publics must register same-sex civil unions as marriages if the couple requests it.

Mexico City prosecutors say they have arrested two men in connection with the death of Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of political activist Malcolm X.

The company that gave America the Bacon Sundae opened with a big splash in South Africa - but no bacon.

Turkish officials said Monday that a missing fighter jet crashed and its fuselage and debris have been found in a mountainous area close to the border with Syria.

A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract rock for a road-building project.

The Bangladesh military says it is ending its search for survivors in the wreckage of an eight-story garment factory building that collapsed last month.

At least 500 people have protested outside a Guatemala prison against the genocide conviction for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt.

There isn't expected to be much of a change in US-Pakistani relations, following yesterday's apparent victory by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Pakistan's elections.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will not fall for a "dirty scenario" and be dragged into the conflict with Syria.

It's one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey in recent years. Two car bombs near the border with Syria have left 42 people dead and about 140 others wounded.

Egyptian officials say they've foiled a terrorism plot. Security officials say a Western embassy was the target, but they didn't have further information.

An explosion outside a political office in Karachi is among the attacks that have left a total of 24 people dead on this election day in Pakistan.

Doctors in Bangladesh say a seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building is in generally good shape -- though she's dehydrated and suffering from insomnia.

Spacewalking astronauts have replaced an ammonia pump outside the International Space Station in hopes of plugging a serious leak.

The last time carbon dioxide levels were this high was about 2 million years ago.

Two astronauts will do a spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the power system at the International Space Station.

Hundreds of Libyan activists are protesting in three major cities, denouncing the use of force by the country's unruly militias and denouncing the Muslim Brotherhood's participation in politics.

A senior U.S. military official says Marines and other American forces in Europe have been placed on a heightened state of alert in response to a deteriorating security situation in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

The Obama administration says now-discredited talking points about the deadly attacks in Libya are being taken out of context - as are emails seeking to revise the talking points.

Bangladesh rescue workers have freed a woman trapped for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed building.

Zimbabwe lawmakers have voted unanimously in the lower house to approve a new draft constitution that will enshrine democratic reforms.

Police say five people have plunged to their deaths trying to escape a burning government building in eastern Pakistan.

Budget airline easyJet PLC says it has acquired a ton of ash from Icelandic volcanoes for use in an experiment to test ash detection technology.