Associated Press - World News

By RAF CASERT 2010-09-08T21:02:40Z BRUSSELS (AP) -- European Union nations and the continent's biggest human rights organization slammed Iran on Wednesday for its plan to stone a woman convicted of adultery, while Iran's ambassador to the Vatican said there is "hope" the punishment could be eased upon review by Iranian authorities....

By RAF CASERT 2010-09-08T21:02:40Z BRUSSELS (AP) -- European Union nations and the continent's biggest human rights organization slammed Iran on Wednesday for its plan to stone a woman convicted of adultery, while Iran's ambassador to the Vatican said there is "hope" the punishment could be eased upon review by Iranian authorities....

By RAF CASERT 2010-09-08T20:14:37Z BRUSSELS (AP) -- European Union nations and the continent's biggest human rights organization slammed Iran on Wednesday for its plan to stone a woman convicted of adultery, while Iran's ambassador to the Vatican said it "is possible" the punishment could be eased....

By ELAINE GANLEY 2010-09-08T19:49:50Z PARIS (AP) -- A Muslim stonemason who spent nearly four decades helping to restore a Roman Catholic cathedral in France has been immortalized as a winged gargoyle peering out from its facade - with the inscription "God is great" written in French and Arabic....

By ELAINE GANLEY 2010-09-08T19:49:50Z PARIS (AP) -- A Muslim stonemason who spent nearly four decades helping to restore a Roman Catholic cathedral in France has been immortalized as a winged gargoyle peering out from its facade - with the inscription "God is great" written in French and Arabic....

By ELAINE GANLEY 2010-09-08T19:49:50Z PARIS (AP) -- A Muslim stonemason who spent nearly four decades helping to restore a Roman Catholic cathedral in France has been immortalized as a winged gargoyle peering out from its facade - with the inscription "God is great" written in French and Arabic....

By PAUL HAVEN 2010-09-08T19:35:25Z HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago....

By PAUL HAVEN 2010-09-08T19:35:25Z HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago....

By PAUL HAVEN 2010-09-08T19:35:25Z HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago....

By CARLA SALAZAR 2010-09-08T19:16:19Z LIMA, Peru (AP) -- President Alan Garcia says he doesn't consider Lori Berenson a threat to Peru, suggesting he may be inclined to commute the New Yorker's accomplice-to-terrorism sentence so she can go home....

By CARLA SALAZAR 2010-09-08T19:16:19Z LIMA, Peru (AP) -- President Alan Garcia says he doesn't consider Lori Berenson a threat to Peru, suggesting he may be inclined to commute the New Yorker's accomplice-to-terrorism sentence so she can go home....

By CARLA SALAZAR 2010-09-08T19:16:19Z LIMA, Peru (AP) -- President Alan Garcia says he doesn't consider Lori Berenson a threat to Peru, suggesting he may be inclined to commute the New Yorker's accomplice-to-terrorism sentence so she can go home....

By DAVID CRARY 2010-09-08T19:02:41Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Australia and New Zealand shared first place, and the United States tied for fifth, in a first-of-its kind survey ranking 153 nations on the willingness of their citizens to donate time and money to charity....

By DAVID CRARY 2010-09-08T18:48:30Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Australia and New Zealand shared first place, and the United States tied for fifth, in a first-of-its kind survey ranking 153 nations on the willingness of their citizens to donate time and money to charity....

By RAF CASERT 2010-09-08T18:44:47Z BRUSSELS (AP) -- European Union nations and the continent's biggest human rights organization slammed Iran on Wednesday for its plans to stone a woman convicted of adultery, increasing the global pressure on Tehran over a case it has tried to frame as a criminal matter and not one of human rights....

By KIMBERLY DOZIER 2010-09-08T17:58:52Z KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban's shadowy leader told Afghans on Wednesday that the insurgents are winning the war and warned Americans that they are wasting lives and billions in tax dollars by continuing in the conflict....

By KIMBERLY DOZIER 2010-09-08T17:58:52Z KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban's shadowy leader told Afghans on Wednesday that the insurgents are winning the war and warned Americans that they are wasting lives and billions in tax dollars by continuing in the conflict....

By KIMBERLY DOZIER 2010-09-08T17:58:52Z KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban's shadowy leader told Afghans on Wednesday that the insurgents are winning the war and warned Americans that they are wasting lives and billions in tax dollars by continuing in the conflict....

By KIMBERLY DOZIER 2010-09-08T17:58:52Z KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban's shadowy leader told Afghans on Wednesday that the insurgents are winning the war and warned Americans that they are wasting lives and billions in tax dollars by continuing in the conflict....

By BRIAN MURPHY 2010-09-08T17:08:46Z SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The hidden face of the Emirates' economic crunch is in places such as Industrial Zone 18 and the ramshackle compound for about 700 migrant workers within. For more than six months, they have lived on charity, fought off rats and slept amid piles of trash after a construction company abruptly closed and left them jobless....