Posted: 8:54 AM Lithuanians have dealt a blow to the conservative government's vision of a nation that would become a regional energy powerhouse and a member of the euro.

Posted: 8:52 AM Softbank Corp. has reached a deal to buy 70 percent of U.S. mobile carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. for $20.1 billion in the largest ever foreign acquisition by a Japanese company.

Posted: 8:48 AM Jordan says it is planning to open a second camp for Syrian refugees, whose numbers are expected to climb to 250,000 by the year's end.

Posted: 8:46 AM Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir, who is the police commander of Kirkuk, says three people including two soldiers died and 22 others were wounded Monday in three attacks in and around the city.

Posted: 6:41 AM Escalating tensions with Russia, Turkey defended its forced landing of a Syrian passenger jet en route from Moscow to Damascus.

Posted: 6:39 AM The United Nations should move quickly to assist rebel forces in Syria with arms and funding, and should support a no-fly zone to protect civilians caught in the middle of the country's escalating civil war.

Posted: 6:37 AM A 14-year-old Pakistani activist who was shot by a Taliban gunman after speaking out for girls' education is in "satisfactory" condition at a military hospital.

Posted: 6:34 AM Zuma is embroiled in a controversy over the costly additions to his private home in a country where millions still lack decent homes, running water, electrical power and adequate access to health and education services.

Posted: 5:58 AM The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to promote peace and democracy in Europe — despite being in the midst of its biggest crisis since the bloc was created in the 1950s.

Posted: 5:52 AM Nobel Prize for literature winner Mo Yan has expressed hope that China's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo will regain his freedom.

Posted: 8:47 AM Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a cause of pride for a government that had disowned the only previous Chinese winner of the award, an exiled critic.

Posted: 8:44 AM For many Syrian children traumatized and driven from their homes by their country's civil war, the opportunity to head back to school is a chance to return to a semblance of normalcy.

Posted: 8:43 AM Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council — the church meetings that brought the Catholic Church into the modern world but whose true meaning is still hotly debated.

Posted: 8:41 AM Turkish state-run television TRT reported Thursday that a Syrian passenger plane intercepted by Turkey's air force was carrying military communications equipment

Posted: 8:40 AM The Spanish government's dilemma over whether to request a European bailout has become more acute following a downgrade of the cash-strapped country's credit rating.

Posted: 8:38 AM A network of French Islamists who carried out a grenade attack on a kosher market also planned to join jihadists fighting in Syria

Posted: 8:37 AM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will likely win in the upcoming parliamentary elections, with no serious contenders to replace him, according to opinion polls published by two major Israeli dailies

Posted: 8:35 AM Indian police have arrested three Muslim militants suspected of planning terror attacks in New Delhi during a major Hindu festival season that starts later this month, a top police official said Thursday.

Updated: 8:45 AM A masked gunman assassinated a Yemeni security official who worked for the U.S. Embassy in a drive-by shooting near his home in the capital Sanaa on Thursday, officials said.

Posted: 7:32 AM Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 7.43 million vehicles in the U.S., Japan, Europe and elsewhere around the world for a faulty power-window switch - the latest, massive quality woes for Japan's top automaker.

Posted: 7:04 AM In remarks to the ministers' conference here, Panetta asked that they provide the 58 teams that are needed, and give those commitments by later next month.

Posted: 7:02 AM Three jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot told a Moscow appeals court on Wednesday that they should not be imprisoned for their irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin

Posted: 7:00 AM Indonesian police on Wednesday warned of a possible terrorist threat targeting dignitaries planning to commemorate Friday's 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings

Posted: 6:58 AM Iraq's top energy official is predicting that the country's current oil production of 3.4 million barrels per day will double by 2015.

Posted: 6:57 AM With congestion in the capital is going from bad to infernal, an increasing number of people see cycling as a solution.