Posted: 6:30 AM The cost of the 2014 Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi now stands at $51 billion, making it the most expensive Olympics in history.

Posted: 9:45 AM A French police official says jewelry worth about $1 million has been stolen from a safe in a Cannes hotel room, against the backdrop of the Riviera resort town's film festival.

Posted: 9:09 AM Authorities in Germany are investigating the death of a Japanese chef following a fight with two customers who had complained about his food.

Posted: 6:11 AM In Basra, mourners on Friday carried the coffin of Mohammed Aboud, who they say was killed by a sniper fire near the shrine of Sayida Zeinab outside the capital of Damascus five days before.

Posted: 6:10 AM A six-member U.N. team led by a former Syrian planning minister is drawing up a comprehensive postwar reconstruction plan even as the country's civil war rages on with no apparent end in sight.

Posted: 6:08 AM Rights activists have found torture devices and other evidence of abuse in government prisons in the first Syrian city to fall to the rebels, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday.

Posted: 6:07 AM While circuses in other countries struggle to compete with an ever-increasing array of entertainment options, India's have faced a cataclysm.

Posted: 9:31 PM Danish museum officials say that an archaeological dig last year has revealed 365 items from the Viking era.

Posted: 9:22 PM It probably wasn't the reception Barbie was hoping for at the start of her European tour.

Posted: 7:02 AM A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least six people in the explosion and wounding more than 30, officials said.

Posted: 6:59 AM First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities — toilet paper.

Posted: 6:57 AM Two car bombs exploded in sprawling Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital on Thursday morning, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 30, officials said.

Posted: 6:56 AM Two bodies were pulled from the wreckage and seven people were injured, he said. Rescuers combed through rubble for several hours and after clearing the site said that nobody else was trapped inside.

Updated: 9:21 PM Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children.

Updated: 6:40 AM Two weeks after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry persuaded Arab leaders to reissue their 2002 offer with new incentives, Israel is maintaining a striking silence

Posted: 6:38 AM The U.N. General Assembly is expected to approve Wednesday an Arab-backed resolution calling for a political transition in Syria and strongly condemning President Bashar Assad's regime

Posted: 6:36 AM A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag: Many members of the displaced Rohingya minority living in the camps have refused to leave

Posted: 6:34 AM Michael McFaul entered the ministry's building in central Moscow in the morning and left half an hour later without saying a word to journalists waiting outside the compound.

Posted: 6:32 AM China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is home to more than a million Japanese.

Posted: 8:50 PM Sotheby's has auctioned off jewels belonging to actress Gina Lollobrigida

Posted: 8:40 PM Rights groups and other activists say there is a growing use of threats and sometimes outright violence in Haiti to clear out sprawling camps that are home to some 320,000 people.

Updated: 10:38 AM Russia's security services say they have caught a U.S. diplomat who they claim is a CIA agent in a red-handed attempt to recruit a Russian agent.

Posted: 7:16 AM President Barack Obama waded into British politics Monday, suggesting that the United Kingdom seek to reform its relationship with the European Union before it decides to simply break away from it.

Posted: 6:54 AM The latest weapon in the U.N.'s fight against hunger, global warming and pollution might be flying by you right now.

Posted: 6:27 AM Thousands of mourners gathered Tuesday at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the souls of the 1,127 people who died in the structure's collapse last month.