Posted: 11:22 AM The head of famed luggage and handbag-maker Louis Vuitton is stepping down because of health reasons.

Posted: 9:54 AM Lawmakers in the Cayman Islands plan to meet in a special session that might oust the embattled premier.

Posted: 9:51 AM Officials confirm that a rebel coalition has taken two more towns in the north of the Central African Republic, including the mining hub of Bria, bringing to five the number of towns the nascent rebellion has seized in two weeks.

Posted: 6:33 AM Chinese police have detained more than 500 people from a fringe Christian group for spreading rumors about the world's impending end, state media reported Tuesday.

Posted: 6:28 AM Facebook says it won't comply with a German privacy watchdog's demand to let users register with fake names.

Posted: 6:25 AM Russia's parliament is preparing to debate a measure that would ban adoption of Russian children by Americans, raising the stakes in a dispute with Washington over human rights legislation.

Posted: 3:19 PM An inquiry into Canada's worst serial killing case concludes that systemic bias against poor, drug-addicted sex workers targeted by convicted killer Robert Pickton led to the failure of police to stop him.

Posted: 10:25 AM French President Francois Hollande is saluting entrepreneurs who set up businesses in the country amid a fierce debate about whether high taxes are leading wealthy French to leave.

Posted: 9:30 AM Three workers at a Syrian steel plant, including an Italian, have been kidnapped, officials said Monday.

Posted: 9:26 AM A bus carrying visitors from a coffee fair has overturned in central Colombia, killing at least 26 people.

Posted: 9:13 AM A report from the World Health Organization says the fight against malaria is slowing down amid a dramatic drop in efforts to reverse the epidemic.

Posted: 4:46 AM A car bomb exploded in a crowded market in Pakistan's troubled northwest tribal region near the Afghan border Monday, killing 17 people and wounding more than 40 others, officials said.

Posted: 2:03 PM The Liberal Democratic Party's victory in Japan's parliamentary election virtually ensures that Shinzo Abe, who resigned for health reasons in 2007, will get a second chance.

Updated: 1:57 PM British royal palace officials say the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge will attend her first public engagement since her hospitalization for acute morning sickness.

Posted: 1:23 PM Libya's parliament has closed the country's borders with Sudan, Niger and Chad, declaring the south a restricted military area.

Posted: 10:13 AM The Spanish cycling federation says former national mountain bike champion Inaki Lejarreta was killed when he was hit by a car while cycling.

Posted: 5:38 PM A half-day before a young gunman committed one of the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history, a Chinese farmer took a kitchen knife and hacked at more than 20 children as they entered their rural elementary school.

Posted: 2:56 PM A United Nations court ordered the immediate release Saturday of an Argentine navy training ship seized by Ghana two months ago at the request of an American hedge fund.

Updated: 2:06 PM An Egyptian security official says ousted president Hosni Mubarak has slipped in the bathroom in the prison where is serving a life sentence, hitting his head.

Posted: 9:17 AM Yemeni security officials say six al-Qaida suspects have been killed and 12 others wounded in army attacks on militant positions around the country.

Updated: 8:07 AM Egyptian Islamists have clashed with opponents of a draft constitution in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria after an ultraconservative cleric called on worshippers to approve the charter in a referendum.

Posted: 8:04 AM Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced he is resigning a day after an indictment for breach of trust was filed against him by the country's attorney general.

Posted: 8:01 AM Authorities in Bulgaria say a 56-year-old homeless man has died of exposure to the cold, bringing to three the total cold-related deaths this season.

Posted: 7:53 AM Fiat has denied reports that it is talks with banks to raise capital to boost its ownership of U.S. automaker Chrysler LLC.

Posted: 7:51 AM MEXICO CITY (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey says a large earthquake has struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico but there are no immediate reports of damage or injuries.