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.

Dutch banks say a cyberattack has affected their online services, but did not breach the security of customers' accounts.

Portugal's Constitutional Court has ruled that some of the unpopular pay cuts in this year's state budget are unlawful, denying the government about 1.4 billion euros ($1.8 billion) of predicted revenue.

The family of a prominent Parisian art dealer is demanding that a Norwegian museum return an Henri Matisse painting seized by Nazis under the direction of Hermann Goering, in the latest dispute over art stolen from Jews during World War II.

U.S. officials say the Obama administration will offer up to $5 million in rewards for information leading to the capture of Lord's Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony, two of his top aides and a Rwandan rebel leader suspected of crimes against humanity.

The North Korean army is warning Washington that its military has been cleared to wage an attack using "smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear" weapons.

Since 2007, Fayyad has been prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, the self-rule government that administers parts of the West Bank.

William Brownfield says he believes drug traffickers squeezed out of Mexico, Central America and South America will target the Caribbean because it's spacious and allows them to remain undercover and take advantage of weak law enforcement in certain countries.

An Ecuadorean Justice Ministry official said Wednesday the Huaorani involved had refused to receive a government delegation trying to investigate the attack in the Pompeya region, about 120 miles east of Quito.

The National Ballet is a pride of Cuban officials and has churned out many world-class dancers.

It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together. We can't see it, but scientists are pretty sure it's out there.

The governor of Argentina's Buenos Aires province says at least 46 people have died in flooding due to torrential rains in his provincial capital.

The United Nations says a growing number of Haitians are not getting enough to eat.

The Jan. 27 fire roared through the crowded, windowless Kiss nightclub in the city of Santa Maria, filling the air with flames and thick, toxic smoke

Reporters from around the world have besieged the city animal shelter where 'Mally' the monkey is being kept in quarantine.

Putin's decree released Tuesday by the Kremlin obliges officials to file their income declarations by July 1.

The TV building, like most of Libya, is secured by militias aligned with the government.

Maduro invoked the late president during a televised speech on Tuesday, declaring: "This victory will belong to our commander!"

Al-Qaida-affiliated militants stormed the complex near on Jan. 16. The ensuing fight with the Algerian army ended with at least 37 hostages and 29 militants killed.