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AP - 1 hour , 25 minutes ago
The international crossfire over Iran's stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery intensified Tuesday with a top European Union official calling it "barbaric" and an Iranian spokesman saying it's about punishing a criminal and not a human rights issue.
 
  • Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic
    AP - 2 hours , 7 minutes ago
    Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war.
  • Iraq displays hundreds of recovered artifacts
    AP - 2 hours , 10 minutes ago
    Iraq displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country's looted heritage and span the ages from a 4,400-year-old statue of a Sumerian king to a chrome-plated AK-47 bearing Saddam Hussein's image.
  • Australian Labor Party wins enough support to rule
    AP - 1 hour , 50 minutes ago
    Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard barely retained power when the last two independent legislators made kingmakers by deadlocked elections ended a tense 17-day standoff and agreed to join her government. Her next challenge? Keeping the unlikely bedfellows of her coalition together.
  • Iraqi soldier fires on US troops, kills 2
    AP - 2 hours , 22 minutes ago
    An Iraqi soldier fired a barrage of bullets at American troops protecting one of their commanders during a visit to an Iraqi army base Tuesday and killed two of them, the first U.S. servicemen to die since President Barack Obama declared an end to combat operations in the country last week.
  • Skin infections pose risk to Chilean miners
    AP - 2 hours , 23 minutes ago
    Rescuers have sent down antibiotics and ointments and were working Tuesday to blast cool, dry air to 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground for more than a month.
  • Abbas asks US to step into settlement dispute
    AP - 3 hours , 54 minutes ago
    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he has asked the U.S. to settle a dispute with Israel over settlement expansion that is threatening to derail Mideast peace talks.
  • Group: Iraqi reporter's killing highlights dangers
    AP - 4 hours , 17 minutes ago
    The killing of an Iraqi journalist, shot dead by unidentified gunmen Tuesday, highlights the dangers facing reporters in a conflict that has claimed more media workers' lives than any since World War II, a watchdog group said.
  • Strikes in France, London foreshadow more protests
    AP - 4 hours , 58 minutes ago
    French strikers disrupted trains and planes, hospitals and mail delivery Tuesday amid massive street protests over plans to raise the retirement age. Across the English Channel, London subway workers unhappy with staff cuts walked off the job.
  • Somalis scramble to escape fighting in capital
    AP - 7 hours , 12 minutes ago
    Fighting in the Somali capital has killed more than 230 people in the past two weeks and fleeing civilians are so desperate they are giving away their last possessions for seats on a bus out of the city, U.N. officials said Tuesday.
  • Women, kids among 17 dead in NW Pakistani bombing
    AP - 7 hours , 12 minutes ago
    A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 14 women and children and three officers, the latest in a string of attacks proving that Islamist militants remain a potent force in the country.
  • Fight over Eichmann files back to German court
    AP - 7 hours , 16 minutes ago
    Germany's intelligence service has turned over thousands of files on top Nazi Adolf Eichmann's whereabouts after World War II to a journalist who sued for them. But with so many passages blacked out and pages missing, she's taking the matter back to court.
  • EU OKs new financial supervision deal
    AP - 8 hours , 10 minutes ago
    European Union nations agreed to create new financial oversight institutions Tuesday, hoping to prevent a repeat of the government debt crisis that nearly left Greece bankrupt and brought the European banking system to its knees.
  • World stocks fall amid renewed Europe bank worries
    AP - 8 hours , 45 minutes ago
    World stocks fell Tuesday, particularly in Europe, where concerns about the health of banks resurfaced and EU finance ministers created new financial oversight bodies but failed to agree on a bank or trading tax.
  • WWII-era mass grave discovered in Slovenia
    AP - 8 hours , 49 minutes ago
    The bodies of about 700 people killed in the wake of World War II have been discovered in a mass grave in Slovenia, 65 years after they were herded into the woods and slain by antifascists seeking revenge on Nazi collaborators, an official said Tuesday.
  • Top US commander: Burning Quran endangers troops
    AP - 8 hours , 56 minutes ago
    The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned Tuesday an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops in the country and Americans worldwide.
  • UK police likely to quiz PM's aide over hacking
    AP - 9 hours ago
    A key aide to Prime Minister David Cameron will be questioned by police over allegations a major British tabloid illegally eavesdropped on politicians and celebrities -- including the British princes, a senior Scotland Yard officer said Tuesday.
  • NATO: Taliban outnumbered around key Afghan city
    AP - 9 hours , 1 minute ago
    The NATO-led coalition has overwhelming numerical superiority over the Taliban around the key southern Afghan city of Kandahar and expects to clear the area of insurgents by November's end, a top commander said Tuesday.

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