It appears a mold and rat problem at Guantanamo won't delay planned legal proceedings in a terrorism case.

Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish troops have returned fire after a mortar shell from Syria again landed on its territory.

Riot police in Bahrain used water cannons and tear gas on Friday to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters trying to reach a heavily guarded site that was once the hub of their uprising.

A Canadian woman nicknamed the "Black Widow" for her ability to persuade grieving widowers to marry her is accused of trying to kill her husband.

A Mexican law-enforcement official says federal police have arrested two men who may be connected with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent this week just north of the Mexico/Arizona border.

The price of oil is higher after tensions rose between Syria and Turkey.

South Africa's inquiry into violence that killed at least 44 people at Lonmin's Marikana mine is postponed until the end of October.

The United Nations says four Nigerian peacekeepers were killed and eight wounded in an ambush in Sudan's restive West Darfur region.

A member of a leading human rights organization has been beaten and arrested in a southern Algerian city.

Two corrections officers at American Samoa's only jail are suspected of letting inmates leave to go on beer and food runs.

Pope Benedict XVI's onetime butler declared Tuesday he was innocent of a charge of aggravated theft of the pope's private correspondence, but acknowledged he photocopied the papers

Smoked salmon tainted with salmonella has sickened hundreds of people in the Netherlands, authorities said, sparking major recalls there and in the U.S.

A senior U.S. official says there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mexican federal police who fired on a U.S. embassy vehicle, wounding two CIA agents, were working for organized crime on a targeted assassination attempt.

Hong Kong's deadlist accident in more than a decade leaves 37 people dead and six crew members arrested.

A chartered boat packed with revelers during a holiday weekend collided with a ferry and sank Monday night off Hong Kong, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens more, authorities said.

A former Pakistani legislator has offered a $200,000 bounty for anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film that has angered Muslims around the world.

International hotel developers are planning nearly 40,000 new rooms across Africa in the coming years.

A Russian official says Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg is being encouraged to expand its operation in Russia.

Britain's forensics watchdog says an innocent man spent months in jail on a rape charge because of a DNA technician's "avoidable" mistake.

The European Space Agency says its cargo craft has successfully undocked from the International Space Station after a failed separation caused by communication problems earlier in the week.

NATO hasn't said whether it considers the incident an "insider" attack, but a firefight between U.S. forces and their Afghan army allies in eastern Afghanistan has left two Americans and three Afghan soldiers dead.

Calls for limiting freedom of expression to prevent denigrating attacks on Islam are being made at the United Nations.

Nobel Peace Laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in San Francisco during her landmark visit to the U.S. where she received an honorary doctorate from the University of San Francisco.

Posters, set models and Daniel Craig's swim trunks are among items up for grabs in an auction of memorabilia from the James Bond movies.

Police say a 15-year-old British schoolgirl who sparked an international search when she went missing along with her math teacher has been found safe and well in France.