Updated: 10:15 PM A tropical depression has formed off the coast of Belize and forecasters say it is expected to bring as much as five inches of rain to parts of Belize, Guatemala, northern Honduras and southern Mexico.

Posted: 11:29 AM Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson says the Obama administration knows how important the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is to Canada but he won't speculate about how much it would damage the relationship should it not be approved.

Posted: 11:27 AM Germany's chancellor says U.S. intelligence was key to foiling a large-scale terror plot, acknowledging her country is "dependent" on cooperating with American spy services.

Posted: 11:24 AM Riot police are spraying water cannon and tear gas in Istanbul to disperse pockets of protesters on the sidelines of a demonstration called by labor groups.

Posted: 8:56 AM Moscow (CNN) -- Russia's president is fighting back: No, he did not steal a Super Bowl ring. And no, he's not rocking the diamond-encrusted prize on his finger, either.

Posted: 7:25 AM China has built the world's fastest computer for a second time, beating the U.S.'s Titan machine.

Posted: 9:34 PM A Chinese dissident who was allowed to travel to the U.S. after escaping from house arrest says New York University is forcing him and his family to leave at the end of this month because of pressure from the Chinese government.

Updated: 11:16 AM A man has survived a plunge from the 15th floor of his New Zealand apartment building and is recovering well.

Updated: 11:14 AM Vietnamese police have arrested a blogger accused of posting "erroneous and slanderous" information about the communist government, the third blogger to be locked in the past month in an intensifying crackdown against dissent.

Posted: 2:15 PM Pope Francis has blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders visiting the Vatican.

Posted: 2:04 PM President Barack Obama is taking a security, foreign policy and economic agenda to Northern Ireland for a meeting with heads of the leading industrial nations.

Posted: 12:21 PM Kuwait says its constitutional court has dissolved the current parliament after challenges to ballot rules, forcing new elections that could reopen political showdowns and clashes in the Gulf nation.

Posted: 11:51 AM The leaders of Britain and Russia said Sunday they're hopeful that Syria's warring factions can hammer out their differences at upcoming peace talks tentatively planned for next month in Geneva.

Posted: 12:34 PM Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela's health has improved, his grandson said Saturday as the 94-year-old spent his eighth day in the hospital recovering from a lung infection.

Posted: 11:22 AM Pakistan's interior minister says the siege of a hospital in southwestern Pakistani has ended after security forces stormed the building.

Posted: 11:20 AM The official says EgyptAir Flight 985 had around 300 passengers onboard when it was diverted to Glasgow's Prestwick Airport on Saturday.

Posted: 10:45 AM The top-secret project was announced Saturday in New Zealand.

Posted: 12:07 PM The government of Puerto Rico is poised to approve a bill that would allow immigrants living in the U.S. territory illegally to obtain a temporary driver's license.

Posted: 12:02 PM The war crimes tribunal for the Guantanamo prisoner charged in the attack on the USS Cole is going into a closed session dealing with a subject so secret even the defendant can't hear it.

Posted: 11:56 AM Polish prosecutors say they will investigate a commander in a notorious Nazi SS-led unit who has been found to be living in Minnesota.

Posted: 11:43 AM On the 50th anniversary of becoming the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova has received a prestigious award from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Posted: 11:37 AM A spokesman for a Libyan national army brigade says the head of his unit has been killed and three soldiers wounded in an ambush en route to a southern city.

Posted: 5:55 PM Bangladeshi garment factories are routinely built without consulting engineers. Many are located in commercial or residential buildings not designed to withstand the stress of heavy manufacturing. Some add illegal extra floors atop support columns too weak to hold them, according to a survey of scores of factories by an engineering university that was shown to The Associated Press.

Posted: 5:35 PM A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on display at Westminster Abbey has been defaced with paint.

Posted: 5:01 PM Brazilian police say gunmen killed one the financial director of a newspaper known for its denunciations of corruption and organized crime groups.