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.

The death toll from a collapsed building in Tanzania's largest city rose to 30 early Monday, according to a government statement.

A magnitude-6.0 undersea earthquake hit off eastern Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Monday. No tsunami alert was issued.

An Iranian confectioner has made five tons of ice cream in hopes of setting a new world record for the largest tub of the dessert.

The U.S. State Department says arrest warrants and the investigation of a popular Egyptian satirist and other critics of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi highlight a "disturbing trend" of growing restrictions on freedom of expression in Egypt.

Dutch authorities say police have searched a field after receiving a tip that sarin may be buried there, but they have not found any trace of the deadly nerve agent.

A new study suggests the number of homicides in Brazil has fallen since the passage of a law restricting gun ownership.

Authorities say a man has been arrested overnight for allegedly breaking into Paris' Museum of Natural History and cutting off a tusk from a centuries-old elephant skeleton with a chainsaw.

The Vatican has said the new pope feels comfortable using Italian, at least for now.

Pope Francis is celebrating a trimmed back Easter Vigil service after having reached out to Muslims and women during a Holy Week in which he has begun to put his mark on the Catholic Church.

North Korea says it has entered 'a state of war' with South Korea in the latest of a string of threats that have raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts has successfully docked with the International Space Station, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting lab to six.

Ruby the anti-austerity dog is back on the streets of Athens - just in time for next week's visit by representatives of international creditors monitoring Greece's troubled finances.