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  1. David Cato, a Ugandan gay-rights activist, poses for photographs at a restaurant in Kampala, Uganda, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family, friends and even landlords also could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Cato became an activist after he was beaten up four times, arrested twice, fired from his teaching job and outed in the press because he is gay. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
    Death penalty for gays? Uganda debates proposal AP - Tue Dec 8, 3:36 PM ETSent 526 times

    KAMPALA, Uganda - Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to homosexuals.

  2. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Collection Under Threat Time.com - Wed Dec 9, 4:40 AM ETSent 113 times

    Spain's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum contains one of the world's most prized art collections. But now a mother-son legal battle has its fate up in the air

  3. Report: Brazil police killed more than 11,000 AP - Tue Dec 8, 8:27 PM ETSent 87 times

    RIO DE JANEIRO - Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch.

  4. Russian court rules against Jehovah's Witnesses AP - Tue Dec 8, 12:52 PM ETSent 84 times

    MOSCOW - Russia's highest court on Tuesday upheld a ruling halting the activities of a regional branch of Jehovah's Witnesses and banning dozens of its publications in what the group deplored as an unfair move.

  5. Population Report: Taiwan Birthrate Now World's Lowest Time.com - Tue Dec 8, 5:05 AM ETSent 81 times

    As of this year, Taiwan now has the lowest birthrate in the world, with one baby born per woman

  6. Philippine National Police Chief Jesus Versoza, right, points at mug shots of suspected members of the government armed militia who allegedly participated in the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao province during a press conference at Camp Crame, police headquarters in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday Dec. 9, 2009. Philippine police identified 161 suspects in the massacre of 57 people last month, including government militiamen led by members of a powerful clan facing murder and rebellion charges. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
    Philippines names 100 more suspects in massacre AP - Wed Dec 9, 12:56 PM ETSent 80 times

    MANILA, Philippines - Police named 100 government militiamen as additional suspects in the Philippines' worst political massacre Wednesday as prosecutors filed rebellion charges against a powerful clan accused of ordering the brutal attack on a rival's campaign convoy.

  7. Liza the rescued dog drinks water from a puddle, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. The ginger-colored dog was spotted chained to a roof railing and standing on a wall ledge over its collapsed home after Tuesday's huge blast near Iraq's Finance Ministry leveled shops and houses. The dog's owner returned to the wreckage after being presumed killed by the blast. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
    Iraqi man, lucky dog reunite after Baghdad blast AP - Wed Dec 9, 4:25 PM ETSent 72 times

    BAGHDAD - Liza is one lucky dog. And so, it turns out, is her family. The ginger-colored mutt stranded alone atop the bombed-out ruins of her Baghdad home was reunited with her owners Wednesday after a night spent chained to a railing, bringing a few smiles after the Iraqi capital's latest day of sorrow.

  8. A Pakistani Army helicopter flies as soldiers patrol in a stronghold of Taliban militants in troubled South Waziristan. The United States has warned Pakistan that its forces will chase Taliban forces into Pakistan if the Islamabad government does not get tough with the insurgents, The New York Times reported Tuesday.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)
    Pakistani authorities question detained Americans AP - Thu Dec 10, 12:56 AM ETSent 70 times

    ISLAMABAD - Pakistani intelligence agents are interrogating five detained Americans over possible links to extremists.

  9. Majid Hassan, 37, weeps over his wife's coffin before her burial in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. She was killed when series of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad Tuesday, including three car bombs that blew up near government sites. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
    Al-Qaida claims this week's deadly Baghdad blasts AP - 1 minute agoSent 63 times

    BAGHDAD - Al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for coordinated Baghdad bombings this week that killed 127 people and wounded more than 500, warning of more strikes to come against the Iraqi government.

  10. Report: Nigerian police killing civilians AP - Wed Dec 9, 6:53 AM ETSent 61 times

    JOHANNESBURG - Beware of police roadblocks in Nigeria: If you cannot pay a bribe, you can end up dead, according to an Amnesty International report published Wednesday.

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  1. President Barack Obama speaks as Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg listens during their news conference in Oslo, Norway, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
    Wartime US president picks up his peace prize AP - 14 minutes ago

    OSLO, Norway - A wartime president being honored for peace, Barack Obama said Thursday that criticism of his Nobel prize as premature might recede if he advances goals such as a nuclear-free world and tackling climate change.

  2. Riot police guard ouside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. Honduras' interim government said Wednesday night it has authorized ousted President Manuel Zelaya to leave the country and go to Mexico, and a Mexican official confirmed talks were under way on that possibility. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
    Zelaya negotiating deal to leave Honduras AP - 19 minutes ago

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Mexico is working to get ousted President Manuel Zelaya out of the Brazilian Embassy, a refuge where he has spent nearly three months in a failed effort to get his office back and prevent the election of his successor.

  3. US Marines wait at the forward operating base in Mian Poshteh in Helmand Province, seen here in November2009. Thirty-six US allies pledged some 6,800 troops this week to help implement a new strategy to break the momentum of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked fighters in Afghanistan, a NATO spokesman said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)
    NATO sees pick-up in Afghan combat, warns on deaths Reuters - Wed Dec 9, 1:26 PM ET

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO will step up fighting in Afghanistan next year as 37,000 more troops join the conflict, and is aware that increased civilian casualties may be the result, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. The United States is sending 30,000 more troops to the war, and NATO allies this week promised a further 6,800 from 36 countries, lifting the total foreign force in Afghanistan to about 140,000 once all are on the ground next year.

  4. Philippine soldiers patrol Mindanao island. Philippine police said tribal gunmen raided a school in the violence-wracked southern Philippines and abducted at least 75 people, many of them children.(AFP/File/Mark Navales)
    Gunmen hold 57 in Philippines, free children Reuters - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

    MANILA (Reuters) - Armed mountain tribesmen raided an elementary school and nearby homes in the troubled southern Philippines on Thursday and were holding at least 57 people hostage to keep police at bay, authorities said.

  5. In this Monday, Oct. 7, 2009, US army soldiers patrol along the border near Rabiya between Syria and Iraq. The U.S. army and Iraq's border patrol conduct night-long sweeps across vast, deserted swaths of land, often idling in the dark in hopes of ambushing smugglers, foreign fighters and other criminals. (AP Photo)
    Al-Qaida claims this week's deadly Baghdad blasts AP - 1 minute ago

    BAGHDAD - Al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for coordinated Baghdad bombings this week that killed 127 people and wounded more than 500, warning of more strikes to come against the Iraqi government.

  6. This photo released by ESA shows the deepest image yet of the Universe in near-infrared light taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble telescope has captured some of the oldest galaxies yet seen in the universe using a new infared camera, scientists in Britain have said.(AFP/ESA)
    Hubble telescope finds 'never-seen' galaxies AFP - Wed Dec 9, 3:28 AM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - The Hubble telescope has captured some of the oldest galaxies yet seen in the universe using a new infared camera, scientists have said.

  7. File photo of flames consuming a eucalyptus tree in a forest fire in Australia in March. More than 120 wildfires fanned by high winds and soaring temperatures raged in southeastern Australia Thursday, prompting emergency warnings for several towns, officials said.(AFP/File/Paul Crock)
    More than 120 wildfires rage in Australia AFP - Thu Dec 10, 2:47 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - More than 120 wildfires fanned by high winds and soaring temperatures raged in southeastern Australia Thursday, prompting emergency warnings for several towns, officials said.

  8. SKorea vows to go ahead with Afghan troop dispatch AP - 52 minutes ago

    SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea vowed Thursday to press ahead with plans to send troops back to Afghanistan despite a Taliban threat of retaliation.

  9. U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, left, talks with South Korea's nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul after returning from North Korea Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. Bosworth said it remains unclear when the communist regime will return to international disarmament negotiations. However, he said he and his North Korean counterparts reached a 'common understanding' on the importance of the denuclearization process. (AP Photo/Jung Yeon-je, Pool)
    US envoy cites 'common understanding' with NKorea AP - 14 minutes ago

    SEOUL, South Korea - President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korea said Thursday that officials in Pyongyang agreed on the need to resume nuclear disarmament talks but did not say when they would return to the negotiating table.

  10. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Collection Under Threat Time.com - Wed Dec 9, 4:40 AM ET

    Spain's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum contains one of the world's most prized art collections. But now a mother-son legal battle has its fate up in the air

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  1. A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen inside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. The FBI on Tuesday returned 150 smuggled pre-Columbian artifacts, some more than 3,000 years old, to the governments of Peru and Ecuador, the agency said.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)
    Pakistani authorities question detained Americans AP - Thu Dec 10, 12:56 AM ET

    ISLAMABAD - Pakistani intelligence agents are interrogating five detained Americans over possible links to extremists.

  2. Iranian opposition supporters take part in the Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally in Tehran in September. Human rights violations in Iran are as bad as at any time in 20 years, London-based watchdog Amnesty International said on Thursday in a report on a government crackdown against election protests(AFP/File)
    Iran says will show no mercy to opposition protesters Reuters - Wed Dec 9, 7:18 AM ET

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will "show no mercy" toward opposition protesters seen as threatening national security, a judiciary official said on Tuesday, a day after thousands of students staged anti-government rallies.

  3. Honduras' President-elect Porfirio Lobo speaks during a news conference in San Jose, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias and Panama's President Ricardo Martinelli announced that they would recognize Lobo as the democratically elected president of Honduras. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)
    Zelaya negotiating deal to leave Honduras AP - 19 minutes ago

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Mexico is working to get ousted President Manuel Zelaya out of the Brazilian Embassy, a refuge where he has spent nearly three months in a failed effort to get his office back and prevent the election of his successor.

  4. Israeli right wing activists hold signs in Hebrew 'We will continue to build' during a rally outside the Prime Minister's residence against the governement's decision to freeze construction in West Bank Jewish settlements, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. About 10,000 Jewish settlers and backers gathered outside the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in downtown Jerusalem on Wednesday to protest his government's freeze on new housing construction in the West Bank and call on him to reverse the edict. The relatively large turnout on a cold, wintry night reflected support for increasingly fierce settler resistance to the government building ban. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
    Settlers protest in Jerusalem against building ban AP - Wed Dec 9, 3:07 PM ET

    JERUSALEM - About 10,000 West Bank settlers and their backers filled part of downtown Jerusalem Wednesday, listening to fiery speeches, dancing in circles and pledging to defy a building ban imposed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

  5. Wartime US president picks up his peace prize AP - 14 minutes ago

    OSLO, Norway - A wartime president being honored for peace, Barack Obama said Thursday that criticism of his Nobel prize as premature might recede if he advances goals such as a nuclear-free world and tackling climate change.

  6. Iraqi man, lucky dog reunite after Baghdad blast AP - Wed Dec 9, 4:25 PM ET

    BAGHDAD - Liza is one lucky dog. And so, it turns out, is her family. The ginger-colored mutt stranded alone atop the bombed-out ruins of her Baghdad home was reunited with her owners Wednesday after a night spent chained to a railing, bringing a few smiles after the Iraqi capital's latest day of sorrow.

  7. Workers make finishing touch on the bronze statue of young U.S. President Barack Obama at a park in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. The statue of President Obama as a 10-year-old wearing shorts and a T-shirt has been erected in the park to inspire children in the country where he lived as a boy, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
    Statue of Obama as boy erected in Indonesian park AP - Wed Dec 9, 8:10 AM ET

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - A statue of President Barack Obama as a 10-year-old wearing shorts and a T-shirt has been erected in a Jakarta park to inspire children in the country where he lived as a boy, officials said Wednesday.

  8. Turkmen-China gas pipeline nearly operational AP - Thu Dec 10, 1:40 AM ET

    BEIJING - A natural gas pipeline linking Turkmenistan and China is nearly operational and President Hu Jintao will attend an inauguration ceremony during a visit to the central Asian nation this weekend, a senior Chinese diplomat said Thursday.

  9. Castro: Obama's accepting of Nobel prize 'cynical' AP - Wed Dec 9, 11:02 PM ET

    HAVANA - Fidel Castro is calling President Barack Obama's accepting of the Nobel Peace Prize a "cynical act," given that he is sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

  10. U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, November 9, 2009. Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy," despite making little headway in the world's trouble spots. REUTERS/Jim Young/Files
    FACTBOX - Obama wins Nobel for diplomacy despite few results Reuters - Thu Dec 10, 1:10 AM ET

    REUTERS - U.S. President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy," despite making little headway in the world's trouble spots.

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