Spared the violence and instability of its North African neighbors, Morocco is looking to lure even more tourists to its beaches, cities and mountains to make up for those kept home by Europe's economic crisis.

Gardeners in Britain who were digging flowerbeds for a village horticultural competition have instead uncovered a World War II bomb.

Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka says the plant, which relies on makeshift cooling systems for its broken reactors, remains highly vulnerable.

Some Chinese travel agencies have cancelled tours to North Korea due to safety concerns as Pyongyang continues its war-like posturing. However, other Chinese operators say they still plan to take tourists in to the country.

The area is home to the country's first nuclear plant, but officials say it wasn't damaged, and there was no release of radioactivity.

The Food Standards Agency says "very low levels" of a painkiller called phenylbutazone, known as "bute," were detected in the products.

The show at Paris' Orangery museum displays works from 1860s Florence with vivid, dappled light - in a strikingly similar way to famed painters like Claude Monet from the 1870s.

An aide to the religious endowments minister, who issued the order, didn't return calls seeking comment. The ministry oversees mosque preachers.

The Small Arms Survey says the country has 17 weapons for every 100 people. A former soldier once shot his wife with a bazooka after a domestic dispute.

Funded by a private investor and put up on his land, the statue of the Polish-born pontiff shows him smiling and stretching his arms to the world.

A Guardian newspaper cartoon depicted Thatcher descending into hell, the Socialist Worker front page said "Rejoice," and a movie marquee was rearranged to read: "Margaret Thatchers Dead LOL.

Official: 5 Indian peacekeepers, 7 civilians die in gunfire attack on convoy in South Sudan.

The U.S. Navy says a fighter jet has crashed into the Persian Gulf near the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, but both crew members were rescued safely by divers.

Former Britain Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died Monday morning after having a stroke.

Police officials say bombs in three Iraqi cities have killed two soldiers, a policeman and a pro-government Sunni fighter.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon says inspectors are ready to deploy to Syria within 24 hours to investigate reported chemical weapon attacks in the country's two-year civil war but have no permission yet from President Bashar Assad's government.

The World Health Organization is talking with the Chinese government about sending international experts to China to help investigate a new bird flu strain that has killed six. Most of the 21 people stricken so far got severely ill.

After weeks of rebel gains in the south, the Syrian government has launched a counteroffensive and reclaimed a northern village on a strategically important route.

Glowing tributes have poured in for Spanish filmmaker Josep Joan Bigas Luna a day after he died following a long fight against leukemia.

It has been the deadliest for Americans in Afghanistan since August.

The EU's foreign policy chief says that nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers have failed to reach an agreement.

A northern Illinois woman has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for leaving her newborn daughter to freeze to death in 2004.

An official says at least 36 people have been killed in a bus crash in which a gasoline tanker exploded in southwest Nigeria.

Spanish authorities say a rockfall has derailed a train, injuring 11 passengers after the first carriage partially plunged into a river just west of the northern city of Santander.

Police say it will be difficult to search three floors of a collapsed building in a suburb of India's financial capital of Mumbai, because the three floors are sandwiched together.