Posted: 6:49 AM The Monday report by semiofficial ISNA news agency quotes Mohammad Reza Golshani, IT head of Iran's state offshore oil company, as blaming Israel for the attack.

Posted: 6:48 AM The author of the book of Vatican secrets that earned the pope's former butler an 18-month sentence for stealing private papal correspondence has set out to explain his source's motives and appeal for clemency.

Posted: 6:47 AM A tentative roadmap to peace in the southern Philippines announced this week is the first major step in the latest attempt to end a long and bloody insurgency

Posted: 6:45 AM Finance ministers from all 27 EU countries meet Tuesday and are expected to grant Portugal an extra year, until 2014, to correct its excessive budget deficit.

Posted: 6:41 AM Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has declared her willingness to serve as her country's president and her party's intention to amend the constitution to allow her to do so.

Posted: 6:40 AM A Pakistani police officer says a bomb attached to a motorcycle has killed one person and wounded 10 others near a police checkpoint in the country's southwest.

Posted: 10:43 AM Retaliatory Turkish artillery strikes deep into Syria have showed the speed with which the bloody civil war can entangle its neighbors and destabilize an already volatile region.

Posted: 10:41 AM French children go to school four days a week. They have about two hours each day for lunch. And they have more vacation than their counterparts almost anywhere in the West.

Posted: 10:38 AM The Tiantou Elementary School was buried Thursday when the hillside collapsed in Zhenhe, a village in Yunnan province, the Yiliang County government said on its website.

Posted: 10:25 AM Syrian warplanes and artillery pounded on Friday the central city of Homs, subjecting the former rebel stronghold to its worst bombardment in months, activists said.

Posted: 8:31 AM Britain's High Court ruled Friday that three Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule can proceed with compensation claims against the British government.

Posted: 8:17 AM en European and North African leaders meet in Malta on Friday for the first such summit of Mediterranean neighbors in a decade, with the agenda focused on fighting terrorism and lawlessness

Posted: 8:15 AM Police say that the bombs went off outside the al-Sadrein mosque and at a nearby police checkpoint as Friday noon prayers ended in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah in southeastern Baghdad.

Posted: 8:14 AM A young American shot and killed a chef at a hotel in the Red Sea resort city of Eilat Friday, before forces from an anti-terror unit shot the gunman dead, police said.

Posted: 8:03 AM Britain's High Court is set to rule Friday afternoon on whether radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other terrorist suspects can be extradited to the United States

Posted: 8:00 AM At least two people were killed and dozens more injured in a clash between security forces and protesters opposed to high energy prices in Guatemala.

Posted: 2:01 PM The FBI says a team of agents arrived in Benghazi on Wednesday to investigate last month's deadly attack on the U.S. consulate and has already left the city.

Posted: 12:55 PM Police threatened merchants who closed their shops in Tehran's main bazaar and launched crackdowns on sidewalk money changers on Wednesday as part of a push to halt the plunge of Iran's currency

Posted: 12:53 PM The Israeli military says dozens of armed men have gathered on the Syrian side of the frontier in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights. Authorities closed a tourist site there in response.

Posted: 12:52 PM In a new 43-page report, Human Rights Watch documented a long list of abuses that it said Palestinians in Gaza endure under the justice system run by Hamas

Posted: 7:09 AM The three blasts went off at a main square in a government-controlled district of the city, while a fourth explosion detonated a few hundred meters (yards) away near the Chamber of Commerce, the official said.

Posted: 7:07 AM Members of the Vatican police force have testified that they found thousands of pages of documents inside the Vatican City apartment of Pope Benedict XVI's former butler, who is on trial for aggravated theft.

Posted: 7:04 AM Coca-Cola and Samsung have pulled their advertising from a popular Vietnamese website notorious for providing unlicensed downloads of Western and local songs

Posted: 7:02 AM The Russian space program's Mission Control Center says it will move the International Space Station into a different orbit to avoid possible collision with a fragment of debris.

Posted: 7:00 AM A senior U.S. official says there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mexican federal police who fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle, wounding two CIA officers, were working for organized crime