Posted: 7:45 AM A strike by some Air France employees at the start of a nationwide two-week school vacation is delaying flights but the company has said the effect will be limited.

Posted: 7:44 AM Chinese lawmakers stripped disgraced politician Bo Xilai of his last official position Friday, formally expelling him from the country's top legislature and clearing the way for criminal proceedings against him.

Posted: 11:52 AM At least 56 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 homes destroyed in the latest outbreak of ethnic violence in western Myanmar, a government official said Thursday.

Posted: 11:49 AM British soldiers and military dogs gathered at a British army barracks Thursday to honor a fallen hero with selfless courage, nerves of steel — and four legs.

Posted: 11:44 AM A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts and a consignment of fish successfully docked Thursday with the International Space Station after a two-day voyage.

Posted: 11:37 AM UK police say officers have identified 300 potential victims of the late Jimmy Savile, the disgraced BBC entertainer now believed to be a predatory pedophile.

Posted: 11:35 AM Hundreds of people packed a Jerusalem community center recently for what many in Jerusalem consider a subversive act: They attended a lecture on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath.

Posted: 11:32 AM Iraqi Shiites increasingly fear the Muslim sect and its holy sites could be targeted in neighboring Syria as the civil war there takes on increasingly sectarian overtones

Posted: 11:30 AM Japan's crippled nuclear power plant is struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tons of highly contaminated water used to cool the broken reactors, the manager of the water treatment team said.

Posted: 11:19 AM South Africa's finance minister says the government wants to improve the living conditions of every South African.

Posted: 8:43 AM The rise from the previous quarter's 88.2 percent and the previous year's equivalent of 87.1 percent, as reported by Eurostat, the EU's statistics office.

Posted: 8:41 AM Iraqi insurgents launched a new wave of attacks across the country targeting security forces and a local politician on Wednesday morning

Posted: 8:40 AM The European Union's executive arm formally accused Microsoft on Wednesday of failing to comply with a binding agreement to give customers a choice among Internet browsers.

Posted: 8:39 AM Even as U.S. and European sanctions tighten around Iran's economy, officials in Tehran are busy reaching out to Asian markets as a critical lifeline.

Posted: 8:38 AM A powerful explosion at a military factory rocked Sudan's capital before dawn Wednesday, sending detonating ammunition flying through the air and causing panic

Posted: 8:37 AM When Amra Babic walks down the streets of the central Bosnian town of Visoko wearing her Muslim headscarf, men sitting in outdoor cafes instantly rise from their chairs, fix their clothes and put out their cigarettes.

Posted: 8:35 AM Things are heating up for King Abdullah II, a Western-oriented monarch who has run a business-friendly, pragmatic monarchy with some trappings of democracy.

Posted: 8:34 AM Colleagues say a Somali journalist was shot to death in northern Somalia, bringing the number of journalists killed in Somalia this year to 16.

Posted: 8:33 AM When Ukraine's president opened up his home to TV cameras, he presented a cozy place with a small office just big enough for his grandchildren to play in.

Posted: 2:16 PM Palestinians complained Tuesday that the Mideast peace process barely got a mention in the final U.S. presidential campaign debate

Posted: 2:09 PM The emir of Qatar received a hero's welcome during a landmark visit to Gaza on Tuesday, becoming the first head of state to visit the Palestinian territory since Hamas seized control of the coastal strip five years ago.

Posted: 2:03 PM The BBC has been rocked by allegations that Savile, who died last year, abused underage teens over several decades, sometimes on BBC premises.

Posted: 2:01 PM It was intended as a friendly guide to Russia for labor migrants from Central Asia, but instead it turned into an insult.

Posted: 2:00 PM Venezuelans are celebrating their homegrown baseball heroes as a record contingent of players from the country heads into the World Series with the Detroit Tigers and San Francisco Giants.

Posted: 1:52 PM A military judge at Guantanamo has been forced to put in the USS Cole bombing case on hold because of a dispute over whether the accused has to be in court.