Posted: 11:53 AM The U.S.-led coalition says an Afghan army soldier has killed two international service members in Afghanistan.

Posted: 11:10 AM A Pakistan police officer says twin blasts in the southern city of Karachi have killed three people near the office of a political party critical of the Taliban.

Updated: 8:32 PM American officials say Israel launched an airstrike against a suspected weapons site in Syria.

Posted: 5:04 PM President Barack Obama says he doesn't foresee sending U.S. ground troops into Syria.

Posted: 4:50 PM Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry has confirmed three more cases of a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 10 the number of cases it reported this week, including five deadly ones.

Posted: 3:50 PM The search for three crew members of an American military refueling plane has been suspended for the night.

Posted: 3:32 PM President Barack Obama is opening a two-day trip to Costa Rica, his first stop in the Central American nation as president.

Posted: 3:23 PM Mexico's governmental rights commission says 84 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, and 20 more have disappeared since 2005.

Posted: 3:20 PM British officials are holding off on plans for a state-backed media watchdog, the first sign that opposition from the newspaper industry is slowing down efforts to more closely regulate the country's scandal-tainted press.

Posted: 4:47 PM Public Defender Earl Witter says his office is probing complaints that 44 of the 76 civilian deaths could have been unjustifiable homicides.

Posted: 4:44 PM The ministry said on Thursday that it had informed the World Health Organization of the seven new cases of novel coronavirus.

Posted: 4:41 PM That meeting in Almaty, Kazakhstan, ended on April 6 with the two sides still far apart.

Posted: 4:37 PM Two generals and two lawmakers, have been arrested after attempting to overthrow the government.

Posted: 4:23 PM For the first time, the Catholic Church has a retired pope living alongside the reigning pope.

Posted: 4:13 PM President Barack Obama says his administration is looking at every option to end the bloodshed in Syria.

Posted: 11:06 AM Chad's state prosecutor says four officials, including two generals and two lawmakers, have been arrested after attempting to overthrow the government of the Central African nation in a coup d'etat.

Updated: 3:51 PM Dozens of garment workers in Bangladesh have been buried in a mass funeral -- workers whose bodies were too battered or decomposed to be identified.

Posted: 3:39 PM Mexican authorities say six employees of the Attorney General's Office have been killed in the crash of a small plane, and a newspaper says an auditors' report indicated months ago that the aircraft fleet for prosecutors was in bad shape.

Posted: 3:34 PM The Dominican Republic has dug up the grave of one of the country's national heroes to make sure the remains are really his before he is re-buried in the national cemetery.

Posted: 3:22 PM Police in Peru say the body of a Chilean man accused in the ritual killing of a 3-day-old boy in his homeland has been found hanging from a rope in an abandoned house.

Posted: 2:07 PM The U.S. State Department says it has no plans to remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism when it issues an upcoming annual report on terrorism.

Posted: 4:34 PM A U.S. cargo plane company has released the names of seven people killed when one of its planes crashed in Afghanistan.

Posted: 1:07 PM A top Vatican official sought Tuesday to temper expectations of an imminent reform of the Holy See's dysfunctional bureaucracy, even though Pope Francis has made clear it's a key priority.

Posted: 12:00 PM The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah says Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat President Bashar Assad's regime, strongly suggesting his Iranian-backed militant group could intervene on the government's side if the need arises.

Posted: 8:43 AM Roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan killed three NATO service members and five Afghans on Tuesday, officials said, clear evidence that the insurgents' annual spring offensive is underway.