Seeking to control global warming, nearly 200 countries agreed Saturday to extend the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that limits the greenhouse gas output of some rich countries, but will only cover about 15 percent of global emissions.

Tunisian security forces have arrested two people carrying automatic weapons and explosives near the Algerian border.

A pair of Australian radio hosts are off the air and said to be "completely shattered" by the news that a nurse who fell victim to their prank call is dead.

A typhoon that killed nearly 600 people and left hundreds missing in the southern Philippines has made a U-turn and is now threatening the country's northwest.

Soldiers have sealed off the palace with tanks and barbed wire, and Egypt's military leaders are wading into the political crisis after protests turned violent this week.

North Korea says it's "seriously examining" the possibility of changing a launch window for a rocket it had planned to fire sometime after Monday.

King Edward VII hospital says a nurse involved in a prank telephone call to elicit information about the Duchess of Cambridge has died.

Study underscores hunger problems facing Haiti.

MONTREAL (AP) - The suspect in a deadly shooting at a rally following the election of Quebec's new separatist premier is being sent for a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he's fit to stand trial.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States and Russia have agreed to support mediation efforts with all parties in Syria to bring about a political transition.

India's parliament on Friday approved the government's plans to open up the country's massive retail sector to international big-box companies such as Wal-Mart.

The U.N. labor office says workers' wages are growing at levels well below those before the global financial crisis, and actually fell in developed countries last year.

Japan's Meteorological Agency has lifted a tsunami warning for the country's northeastern coast.

Dogs usually chase cars. Turns out they can drive them too.

Rescuers have called off search efforts for six missing crewmen from a cargo ship that sank in the North Sea.

The Duchess of Cambridge has left a London hospital where she was being treated for acute morning sickness related to her pregnancy.

Rescuers say four crew members have died and seven are still missing in the icy waters of the North Sea, after a cargo ship collided with another vessel and sank off the Dutch coast.

Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency says a moderate earthquake has shaken eastern Iran. There are no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

British media are reporting that police investigating rape allegations dating from years ago have arrested an 82-year-old BBC radio presenter.

BRUSSELS (AP) - Officials from 48 countries meeting Wednesday in Brussels are expected to formally create what they are calling a global alliance to fight child sexual abuse online.

LONDON (AP) - Charles Dickens' London home has gone from Bleak House to Great Expectations.

The family of John Demjanjuk has appealed a prosecutor's decision to shelve an investigation into his death while awaiting an appeal on a Nazi war crimes conviction.

Mud-stained bodies covered with banana leaves were laid out in a row and survivors dried their soiled belongings on the roadside under a bright sun Wednesday, a day after a typhoon killed more than 270 people in the southern Philippines.

Intelligence officials say a pair of suicide bombers rammed their truck filled with explosives into the gate of an army camp in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing three soldiers.

State media say a pair of mating Amur leopards was spotted in northeastern China, in another indication of a comeback for an extremely rare cat once thought to be next to extinction.