Posted: 12:12 PM Argentina's defense chief says he's ashamed over the sinking of a mothballed Navy destroyer, an incident that critics say reflects the abandonment of a once-proud fleet.

Posted: 12:08 PM A Mexican Supreme Court panel has voted to release Florence Cassez, a Frenchwoman who says she was unjustly sentenced to 60 years in prison for kidnapping.

Posted: 8:49 AM The top commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard insists his force controls shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, gateway for one fifth of the world's oil.

Updated: 8:08 AM Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Congress Wednesday that she is committed to improving security at U.S. diplomatic missions worldwide after the Sept. 11 raid on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya.

Updated: 2:17 PM The State Department has not definitively declared that AQIM was responsible for the attack, but it has suggested the group played a leading role.

Posted: 7:49 AM LONDON (AP) - Prince Harry's assertion that he has killed Taliban fighters while deployed in Afghanistan is drawing intense media coverage in Britain and sparking concerns about possible reprisals.

Posted: 7:42 AM LONDON (AP) - A new exhibition is bringing the works of French Impressionist master Edouard Manet to London - although snow is delaying one painting's arrival.

Posted: 7:38 AM BRUSSELS (AP) - A European Union high court has ruled that only brewing giant AB InBev has the right to use the trademark "Bud" in Europe after rejecting a challenge from Czech company Budejovicky Budvar.

Posted: 12:04 AM Britain's Ministry of Defense says Prince Harry is returning from a 20-week deployment in Afghanistan, where he served as an Apache helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps.

Posted: 12:39 PM Algeria's prime minister is providing more details about the Islamist militants who attacked a natural gas plant in the Sahara last week.

Posted: 9:25 AM Here's the latest information from Algeria on the dead and missing after a bloody, four-day hostage siege at the country's remote Ain Amenas natural gas plant.

Posted: 7:28 AM The founder of the World Economic Forum says he sees danger signs ahead.

Updated: 1:43 PM Iraq's government says the head of Exxon Mobil has met with the prime minister to discuss the company's Iraq plans, which have angered Baghdad.

Updated: 1:40 PM Japan's prime minister says seven Japanese citizens have been confirmed dead in a hostage crisis at an Algerian oil field.

Posted: 6:39 AM ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Algeria's prime minister says 37 foreign hostages were killed during the four-day-long standoff at a natural gas plant, and that at least one Canadian was among the Islamist militants who took hundreds hostage.

Posted: 5:37 AM Police say floods in Indonesia's capital have killed at least 26 people and sent more than 100,000 fleeing their homes.

Posted: 3:45 AM The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed past 80 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the refinery for explosives found dozens more bodies, many so badly disfigured it was unclear whether they were hostages or militants, a security official said.

Posted: 3:42 AM Legal proceedings in the fatal gang-rape attack on a student in India's capital began Monday in a fast-track court for crimes against women that has stirred debate over how best to deliver justice to rape victims.

Posted: 3:41 AM Japanese and U.S. investigators began a probe Monday into the maker of the lithium ion batteries used in Boeing's grounded 787 jets.

Updated: 12:26 AM Yemeni military officials say eight people have been killed in two suspected U.S. drone strikes in Abieda valley in central Marib province.

Posted: 1:15 PM Syria's foreign minister has invited the country's rebels to lay down their weapons and take part in a dialogue conference, saying everyone who participates will be included in a new Cabinet with wide executive powers.

Updated: 12:49 PM Riot police have been firing tear gas to disperse dozens of rock-throwing demonstrators outside a courthouse in Alexandria, Egypt.

Posted: 12:37 PM France's foreign minister says Mali's neighbors in West Africa "need to take the lead" in the military intervention to oust extremists from northern Mali.

Posted: 12:21 AM Algeria's state news agency says the country's special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert today in a "final assault" aimed at ending a four-day-old hostage crisis.

Updated: 11:37 AM The bloody three-day hostage standoff at a natural gas plant in the Sahara took a dramatic turn Friday as Algeria's state news service reported that nearly 100 of the 132 foreign workers kidnapped by Islamic militants had been freed.