Updated: 7:40 PM China's presumed next leader has made a public appearance for the first time in two weeks.

Posted: 1:58 PM The Czech Republic has banned the sale of spirits with more than 20 percent alcohol content as it battles a wave of methanol poisonings that has already killed 19 people.

Updated: 1:28 PM Britain's royal family says it is suing the French magazine that has published topless photos of Prince William's wife Kate.

Posted: 12:38 PM The mother of a Northern California man is grieving after her son's body was found in Peru, where police say a shaman confessed to burying the 18-year-old after he ate an hallucinogenic plant.

Posted: 8:51 AM India has agreed to open its huge market to foreign retailers such as Wal-Mart.

Updated: 9:27 AM A large cloud of black smoke has risen around the U.S. embassy in Tunis.

Updated: 4:23 PM Guatemala's head of emergency evacuations says more than 33,000 people are fleeing the eruption of a long-active volcano just outside one of the country's most famous tourist attractions.

Posted: 10:18 AM British police say they are searching for a woman who gave a baby a bottle believed to contain bleach.

Posted: 9:54 AM A mayoral candidate in Bosnia's fourth-largest city is using one of the Internet's greatest lures - pornography - to draw attention to his campaign.

Posted: 9:39 AM A U.S. law enforcement official says a man named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is behind the anti-Muslim film being blamed for mob attacks in Egypt, Libya and Yemen.

Posted: 8:44 AM Yemen's president has apologized to President Barack Obama for the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, by a mob angry over an anti-Islam film.

Posted: 4:45 AM Greece's largest labor unions have called a general strike for Sept. 26 in response to a major new government austerity package that is expected to worsen hardship in the recession-hit country.

Posted: 3:44 AM A platform elevator at a construction site in southern China has dropped 30 floors in a free fall, killing 19 workers.

Updated: 4:31 PM U.S. officials say the Pentagon is moving two warships to the Libyan coast, in the aftermath of the attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three others.

Posted: 4:28 PM Police in Peru say a shaman has been arrested after confessing to burying an 18-year-old U.S. citizen who died after eating an hallucinogenic plant during a ritual.

Updated: 4:34 PM A Puerto Rican man has been charged with murder for allegedly running over his brother-in-law during a family dispute.

Posted: 4:20 PM U.S. officials say the Pentagon is moving two warships to the Libyan coast, in the aftermath of the attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three others.

Posted: 12:42 PM U.S. officials say the Obama administration is investigating whether the assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya was a planned terrorist strike to mark the anniversary of 9/11, and not a spontaneous mob enraged over a anti-Islamic YouTube video.

Posted: 8:25 AM Libyan officials say the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans have been killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

Posted: 8:30 AM Pakistani officials say the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 314.

Updated: 2:41 PM Two Norwegian electricians trapped for an entire day in a basket 85 meters hanging (280 feet) above a fjord successfully rappelled down to a boat waiting below, rescue workers said Tuesday.

Posted: 2:38 PM Toronto police say a gang was behind the worst mass shooting in the city's history.

Posted: 2:29 PM Researchers are using new 3-D sonar imaging technology to capture the most complete picture yet of what remains of the only U.S. Navy ship sunk in combat the Gulf of Mexico during the Civil War.

Posted: 2:27 PM The European Space Agency is exploring the possibility of cooperating with China on manned space missions by the end of the decade.

Updated: 9:42 AM U.S. troops are still in Afghanistan, nearly 11 years after they invaded. Why? The answer boils down to one word: al-Qaida. The goal is to damage the terrorist group enough to prevent a repeat of the 9/11 attacks.