Posted: 9:44 AM - A U.N. official said the attack Wednesday is against a building just outside the secure airport compound where all the U.N. agencies are based

Posted: 9:38 AM - Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement.

Posted: 9:31 AM - In a terse statement from his office, Karzai said negotiations with the U.S. on what American and coalition security forces will remain in the country after 2014 have been put on hold.

Posted: 9:29 AM - Heavy floods in southwest France have forced the closure of the Catholic pilgrimage site in Lourdes and the evacuation of pilgrims from nearby hotels.

Posted: 9:27 AM - The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012.

Updated: 06/18/2013 - Prominent British art collector Charles Saatchi has admitted assault and accepted a police caution after published photos showed him grasping the throat of his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson.

Posted: 06/18/2013 - Leaders from eight of the world's wealthiest countries spent the final hours of their summit Tuesday focusing how to make sure that multinational companies can no longer rely on shelters and loopholes

Posted: 06/18/2013 - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he will increase police powers following a wave of anti-government protests.

Posted: 06/18/2013 - State TV signals remain blank in Greece as parties in the governing coalition were still at odds over what to do with public broadcaster ERT.

Posted: 06/18/2013 - Britain and France appear unwilling — at least for now — to join President Barack Obama in arming the Syrian rebels, a step the U.S. president reluctantly finalized last week.

Updated: 06/18/2013 - Officials say Islamic militants have driven 19,000 rice farmers from northeast Nigeria while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields.

Posted: 06/18/2013 - The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that fighter jets struck near the Kweiras air base near the Turkish border early Tuesday.

Posted: 06/17/2013 - Entertainment star Barbra Streisand is attacking Jewish religious practices in Israel.

Posted: 06/17/2013 - Iran's newly elected president pledged on Monday to follow a "path of moderation" and promised greater openness over the country's nuclear program

Posted: 06/17/2013 - Talks on a sweeping trade deal between the European Union and the United States, the world's two largest trading partners, are to get underway in Washington next month.

Posted: 06/17/2013 - Egyptian tourism workers and residents of the ancient city of Luxor are voicing anger after an Islamist linked to a former Islamic militant group that carried out the city's deadliest terrorist attack.