South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday honored anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, who has been hospitalized since the weekend and who the president said is recovering from a lung infection.

Thousands of Palestinians marched through the streets of Hebron on Thursday, chanting anti-Israel slogans and waving green Hamas flags during a funeral procession for a teenager killed by Israeli troops in this volatile West Bank city.

Pakistan has extended refugee status for over a million Afghans in the country by an additional six months, the government announced — a move likely to ease fears of Afghans living there that they would soon have to return home.

A coroner's officer says the nurse who took a hoax call about the Duchess of Cambridge was found hanging by the neck from a scarf on a wardrobe door in her room.

South Korea says North Korea has fired a long-range rocket in a defiant move just days ahead of South Korea's presidential election.

Leaders from across Northern Ireland appealed Tuesday for a week of angry, illegal Protestant street protests to end after a gang surrounded a policewoman's car and hurled a Molotov cocktail inside.

VIENNA (AP) - An Austrian museum says a man took the concept of life imitating art to an extreme when he suddenly stripped at an exhibition of pictures and sculptures portraying nude men through the ages.

TORONTO (AP) - The owner of a monkey caught wandering outside an Ikea store in Toronto says the tiny primate rarely left her side until he was confiscated by authorities - and she wants him back.

LONDON (AP) - The British government says it will introduce a bill next year legalizing gay marriage - but banning the Church of England from conducting same-sex ceremonies.

Cayman Islands (AP) - The government of the Cayman Islands says Premier McKeeva Bush has been arrested on suspicion of corruption.

The former Kate Middleton has cancelled a planned appearance at the U.K. premiere of "The Hobbit" due to acute morning sickness.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the Syrian government seems to have slowed preparations for the possible use of chemical weapons against rebel targets.

South Africa's presidency says former President Nelson Mandela is suffering from a recurring lung infection and is responding to treatment.

Australian officials are calling Apple's mapping application "potentially life threatening."

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake has been reported off the coast of Indonesia.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Transgender sex workers in Ivory Coast have been subjected to horrific abuses by the country's armed forces, including being sodomized with rifles, according to interviews with victims.

US drone strike kills al-Qaida commander.

TORONTO (AP) - Shoppers at an Ikea store in Toronto weren't monkeying around when they reported a primate on the loose.

NTSB: Singer Rivera Died in Mexico Plane Crash

A full-scale replica of Noah's Ark has opened its doors to the public in the Netherlands.

An annual holiday concert attended by President Barack Obama and his family included something non-traditional this year: a performance by South Korean rapper and Internet sensation PSY.

The Australian radio hosts behind a hoax phone call to the British hospital where the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was staying said through tears that they were shattered upon learning that the nurse who was duped by their prank had died.

The company that owns the radio station behind a prank call about the Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy says it is reviewing its broadcast practices.

Talks started here between the Congo government and rebels who have seized strategic parts of eastern Congo.

Egypt's opposition says it will keep up protests against a referendum on a disputed draft constitution but has stopped short of advocating a boycott.