The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton likely will testify before the panel on Jan. 22 about the assault in Libya that killed four Americans.

An Iranian news agency says the country's coast guard has seized two Saudi fishing boats after they allegedly strayed into Iranian waters.

PARIS (AP) - The Paris prosecutors office says it is opening a preliminary investigation into allegations that France's budget minister hid money from French tax authorities in offshore accounts.

LONDON (AP) - A British court holding a second inquest into the death of Amy Winehouse has confirmed that the singer drank herself to death.

LIMA, Peru (AP) - Five U.S. citizens are among seven people killed in the crash of a U.S.-owned cargo helicopter in the Peruvian jungle.

Rwanda gets new UN seat, but world standing falls.

Turkey's seismology center says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has hit an area off Turkey's Aegean coast.

An official in central China says six county officials have been suspended after a fire at an illegally run orphanage killed six children and one young adult.

Pakistani officials say several American drones have fired missiles at a compound near the Afghan border, killing at least eight suspected militants.

A British judge has sentenced a "devoted and loving mother" to at least 17 years in prison for beating her son to death after he failed to memorize passages from the Quran.

Airport officials say an antique Spitfire aircraft owned by engine company Rolls Royce collapsed shortly after landing at East Midlands Airport in central England.

Organ donations have dropped sharply in Germany following a scandal over alleged corruption at several transplant clinics.

PARIS (AP) - France's government says it has persuaded a leading Internet provider to stop blocking online advertisements - a controversial move that would have hit online search giants such as Google.

LONDON (AP) - The leader of Britain's far-right English Defense League party has been jailed after pleading guilty to using someone else's passport to enter the United States.

LONDON (AP) - British Academy Film and Television Awards says 23 year-old British actress Juno Temple is one of five young stars shortlisted for the BAFTA Rising Star award.

BEIJING (AP) - Brad Pitt is now on China's version of Twitter, and his mysterious first tweet has drawn thousands of comments.

Australian authorities are searching for bodies among the charred ruins of more than 100 homes and other buildings destroyed by wildfires in the island state of Tasmania.

The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to the unconditional and speedy implementation of deals reached in September to demilitarize their shared border and allow oil exports to flow from South Sudan's oil fields north through Sudan's pipelines.

Mexico City authorities say they have destroyed thousands of toy guns in an effort to fight real crimes committed with fake weapons.

The U.N. children's agency says it's concerned about a growing number of children being recruited by armed groups in Central African Republic as President Francois Bozize's government faces a rebellion in the north.

Puerto Rico's new governor is calling out National Guard troops to help prevent drug and weapons smuggling.

PARIS (AP) - Sex symbol-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is threatening to join actor Gerard Depardieu in Russian exile unless France halts the scheduled euthanasia of two sick circus elephants.

A 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education has been released from a Birmingham hospital to live with her family, doctors said Friday.

Ivory Coast's health minister says the death toll in the New Year's stampede has risen to 64.

U.S. antitrust regulators say they have found no evidence to claims that Google unfairly favors its own services in search results.