A British cancer group is turning to an unorthodox source of help in an effort to speed its research: web surfers.

Police say a 41-year-old car washer shocked his family when he interrupted a funeral being held for him at his mother's home in the town of Alagoinhas in northeastern Brazil.

Authorities searched an airplane scheduled to depart from Los Angeles International Airport after someone called police and made a bomb threat.

Republican Mitt Romney is refusing to say if he would be open to one-on-one talks with Iran if elected president.

A top executive at Havana's Hotel Nacional says that Fidel Castro made a public appearance there, challenging rumors that he is in ailing health.

A pirate commander in Somalia says that a cargo ship was freed after being held captive for nearly two years. Six hostages are still being held by the pirates on land.

America sent a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on a cruise through the South China Sea, projecting its power in waters that are fast becoming a focal point of its strategic rivalry with Beijing.

French rescue services and police are evacuating hundreds of pilgrims from hotels threatened by floodwaters from a rain-swollen river in the Roman Catholic shrine town of Lourdes.

An anti-settlement group says Israel is moving forward with plans to build a military college on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives, an area claimed by the Palestinians for a future state and steeped in Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious lore.

Lebanon's prime minister says the deadly car bombing in Beirut has links to the civil war in neighboring Syria.

More attacks in Afghanistan today have targeted those affiliated with the Afghan government.

The international envoy to the Syria conflict has pressed his call for a cease-fire with Syrian officials in Damascus.

The office of the Libyan prime minister has announced that slain Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's former spokesman has been captured at a checkpoint outside the besieged town of Bani Walid.

The battle between insurgents in Afghanistan and Afghan and foreign security forces has once again taken civilian lives.

Lebanese Red Cross and security officials say a car bomb in east Beirut has killed at least eight people and wounded dozens in the worst blast the city has seen in years.

The men in a village about 100 miles south of Kabul were fed up with the Taliban closing their schools and committing other acts of oppression. So they took up arms last spring and chased the insurgents out with no help from the Afghan government or U.S. military.

U.S. officials say the daughter of the leader of one of the world's most sought-after drug lords has been arrested on suspicion of trying to enter the United States on someone else's passport.

Administration officials say the White House has put special operations strike forces on standby and moved drones into the skies above Africa, ready to hit militant targets from Libya to Mali, if U.S. investigators can find the al-Qaida-linked group responsible for the death of the U.S. ambassador in Libya.

A collection of paintings from French Impressionist Edouard Manet is making its only U.S. appearance this fall in Ohio.

Algeria has announced the death of a regional al-Qaida official in an army ambush.

Turkey's foreign minister says the country has barred its air space to Syrian civilian flights.

An Islamic Egyptian preacher brought to New York from England to face terrorism charges is forced to turn in his prosthetic arms every night in jail because officials believe the metal hook on one limb could be used as a weapon.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman says his country is ready to show flexibility at nuclear talks to ease Western concerns over Tehran's contentious nuclear program.

Turkey's prime minister is blasting the U.N. Security Council for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end the 19-month civil war in Syria.

Royal Bank of Scotland says Spanish bank Santander has backed out of its deal to buy 316 of RBS branches in the U.K.