UK police: 5 from diverted plane claim asylum
Five passengers from an EgyptAir flight diverted to a Scottish airport over an apparent threat to destroy the aircraft are now seeking asylum in ...

Shock lingers after Nazi unit leader found in US
The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to ...

Divers begin Lake Michigan search for Griffin ship
Divers began opening an underwater pit Saturday at a remote site in northern Lake Michigan that they say could be the resting place of the Griffin, ...

Morris the cat runs for mayor of Mexican city
This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes. Morris, a black-and-white ...

Brazilians protest high cost of hosting World Cup
At least 500 protesters complaining against the high cost of staging the World Cup rallied Saturday in front of the National Stadium in Brasilia just ...

Egypt cuts relations with Syrian government
Egypt's Islamist president announced Saturday that he was cutting off diplomatic relations with Syria and closing Damascus' embassy in Cairo, ...

Attacks in Pakistan's southwest kills 22
Pakistani forces stormed a hospital that had been taken over by gunmen Saturday in a restive southwestern province, freeing hostages and ending a ...

Obama trade dilemma: Scant support from Democrats
President Barack Obama is aggressively pushing an ambitious agenda to liberalize global trading. But already political trade wars are forming, and ...

Iran's Rowhani seeks 'constructive interaction'
Just weeks after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory in 2005, Iran's top nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani stepped down from the post after ...

Grandson says Mandela's health improving
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela's health has improved, his grandson said Saturday as the 94-year-old spent his eighth day in the hospital ...
'M' or 'F'? Outdated IDs worry transgender people
Most people don't think twice about the gender printed on their driver's license. But those "M'' or "F'' markers — and the legal and administrative ...

Thousands march for gay rights in Croatia
Several thousand people held a gay pride march Saturday in Croatia, where conservatives backed by the influential Catholic Church want to make same ...

Pope taps trusted prelate to oversee Vatican bank
Pope Francis took a first big step in reforming the troubled Vatican bank on Saturday by tapping a trusted prelate to help oversee its management, in ...

In Trayvon Martin case, history's ghosts linger
Focus on the details, and the cases seem very different. One was killed by virulent white racists, the other by a part-Hispanic neighborhood watchman ...

Web giants get broader surveillance revelations
Facebook and Microsoft Corp. representatives said that after negotiations with national security officials their companies have been given permission ...

EU gets deal on trans-Atlantic trade pact mandate
The European Union worked around French objections on Friday to agree on a free trade negotiating mandate for sweeping talks with the United States ...

AP IMPACT: Commander of Nazi-led unit lives in US
A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into ...

Hezbollah says it will keep fighting in Syria
Hezbollah's leader vowed Friday that his militants would keep fighting in Syria "wherever needed" after the U.S. agreed to arm the rebels in the civil ...
Libyan army colonel killed in attack on brigade
A Libyan army colonel was killed in an ambush on his brigade in the country's south on Friday, the unit's spokesman said, in the latest incident of ...

UN rights body demands end to violence
The 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council has again called for an immediate end to the horrific violence in Syria, and demanded that the government ...
Report: 73 Syrian officers, families cross border
As many as 73 Syrian military officers — including seven generals and 20 colonels — have crossed the border with their families "seeking refuge" in ...
Correction: Egypt-Syria story
In a story June 13 about the Egyptian presidency's position on citizens joining the fight in Syria, The Associated Press erroneously quoted the ...

APNewsBreak: NSA leaker Snowden not welcome in UK
The British government has warned airlines around the world not to allow Edward Snowden, who leaked information on top-secret U.S.