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MOSCOW (AP) -- President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday defended his upcoming job swap with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as a move that will strengthen democracy, and predicted they will rule Russia together "for a long time."...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Thousands of people who survived Sierra Leone's brutal civil war a decade ago celebrated Thursday after learning that Charles Taylor had been convicted for his role in the conflict that left behind countless amputees and traumatized former child soldiers....

LONDON (AP) -- News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch said Thursday that he panicked when he closed the News of the World tabloid last year, one of a series of revealing exchanges made at an inquiry into British media ethics....

LONDON (AP) -- The rebound in European stock markets over the past couple of days ground to a halt Thursday following a mixed batch of corporate earnings and further evidence of a sharp slowdown in the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting notoriously brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone in return for blood diamonds....

HAVANA (AP) -- Conrado Marrero can still remember the crisp feeling of slipping on his Washington Senators uniform, and the surge of adrenaline he got staring down Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and other major league batters. But the diminutive right-hander's glory days are a world - and a revolution - away....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- A report from a U.N. demining expert says unexploded cluster munitions have been found in northern Sri Lanka, appearing to confirm, for the first time, that they were used in that country's long civil war....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- By the time Ibrahim Khaled Mohammed turned to a car dealer looking for an offer, his 1983 Volkswagen Passat could barely move....

TOKYO (AP) -- Analysts who have studied photos of a half-dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased recently at a lavish military parade say they were fakes, and not very convincing ones, casting further doubt on the country's claims of military prowess....

GENEVA (AP) -- A United Nations panel has approved another $1 billion in compensation for victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday she was hopeful a dispute over Myanmar's legislative oath would be overcome soon, calling it a "technical problem" that should not end in political deadlock....

TOKYO (AP) -- Ichiro Ozawa, the veteran Japanese lawmaker who engineered the ruling party's rise to power, was acquitted Thursday in a political funding scandal that has damaged his chances of becoming prime minister....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A New Zealand zookeeper killed by an African elephant had been trying to get the lonely pachyderm into an animal sanctuary because she knew it would be better off there, people who knew her said Thursday....

TOKYO (AP) -- A half dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased at a lavish military parade were clumsy fakes, analysts say, casting more doubt on the country's claims of military prowess after its recent rocket launch failure....

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- An American drone strike in the frontier tribal areas of Pakistan killed 10 suspected militants Sunday, Pakistani officials said. It was sixth such strike in two weeks as the U.S. pushes ahead with its drone campaign in the face of Pakistani demands to stop....

HAVANA (AP) -- Conrado Marrero can still remember the crisp feeling of slipping on his Washington Senators uniform, and the surge of adrenaline he got staring down Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and other major league batters. But the diminutive right-hander's glory days are a world - and a revolution - away....

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentina's Senate on early Thursday approved the forced takeover of the YPF oil company from Spain's Repsol....

TOKYO (AP) -- Ichiro Ozawa, the veteran Japanese lawmaker who engineered the ruling party's rise to power, was acquitted Thursday in a political funding scandal that has damaged his chances of becoming prime minister....

TOKYO (AP) -- Ichiro Ozawa, the veteran Japanese lawmaker who engineered the ruling party's rise to power, was acquitted Thursday in a political funding scandal that has damaged his chances of becoming prime minister....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Two major South Korean retailers pulled U.S. beef from their stores Wednesday following the discovery of mad cow disease in a U.S. dairy cow, although one reversed the decision. Reaction elsewhere in Asia was muted with Japan saying there's no reason to restrict imports....