Authorities say all six people killed in last week's pre-dawn bus crash on an Arizona interstate were Mexican citizens.

Vice President Joe Biden condemned an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem on Tuesday, casting a cloud over a high-profile visit that had been aimed at repairing ties with the Jewish state and kickstarting Mideast peace talks.

India's ruling Congress party supporters celebrate outside party leader Sonia Gandhi's house after the Women's Reservation Bill was passed Tuesday by the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament.

Local media reports said the target was Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who drew a cartoon of the Muslim prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog in 2007, prompting al Qaeda to offer $100,000 to anyone who killed him -- plus an extra $50,000 if the killer slits his throat.

The Chinese government is considering legislation that would make eating cats and dogs illegal.

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that rocked the west coast of Chile last month was violent enough to move the city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and the capital, Santiago, about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said.

A body discovered in a Nicosia cemetery is the stolen corpse of Cyprus' ex-president Tassos Papadopoulos, police said Tuesday.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in Afghanistan to check on the progress of the war, says the Marjah offensive is encouraging, but stopped short of saying that the war is at a turning point.

The Obama administration said Monday that Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to indirect peace talks brokered by U.S. special Mideast envoy George Mitchell.

Five people were arrested and eleven policemen injured when fans of rival football clubs rioted in Lodz, Poland on Sunday, just before a planned match ...

The police came with bullhorns to impoverished neighborhoods near the epicenter of Chile's devastating earthquake, warning looters to return what they stole or face police raids.

A strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey on Monday, killing at least 57 people and knocking down houses in at least six villages, officials said.

The death toll from weekend violence in central Nigeria climbed to more than 200 Monday after members of a machete-wielding Muslim group attacked mostly Christian villages, officials said.

A suicide car bomber struck a building where police interrogate high-value suspects in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Monday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 61 more including women taking children to school, officials said.

A strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey Monday, killing at least 17 people, the government said.

British journalists' access to military operations in Afghanistan is to be restricted during the general election campaign in order to avoid accusations that the armed forces are being used for political purposes, it has been confirmed.

Adam Gadahn, seen in these undated file photos released by the FBI. The American-born Al-Qaida spokesman called on Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to emulate the Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood in a video posted on a radical Islamic web site on Sunday March 7, 2010.

Dozens of Islamist militants defected to Afghan government forces Sunday after armed clashes erupted between them and their one-time Taliban allies in a northeastern province, two police officials said.

The militants are apparently fighting for control of several villages where the central government has almost no presence.

Iraqis cast ballots in election that will test fragile democracy A resident casts his vote at a polling station in Baghdad's Sadr City March 7, 2010.