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BERLIN (AP) -- A German-owned ship was halted after its owners received information - which allegedly came from Syrian government defectors - that it might be carrying weapons bound for Syria, according to a report published Saturday. The German government said it was looking into the matter....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- For the first time since the Syrian conflict began more than a year ago, the U.N. Security Council on Saturday united behind a legally binding resolution calling for violence to end immediately and peace talks to begin....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's King Juan Carlos has successfully undergone hip replacement surgery after tripping on stairs and fracturing bones around the joint while on an elephant hunting trip in Botswana, officials said Saturday. It was the monarch's fourth surgery in almost two years....

DEIR ISTIYA, West Bank (AP) -- Maha Surougi and Thaer Qasem have lived their entire lives in Syria's largest Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus....

ABOARD MS BALMORAL (AP) -- In the birthplace of the Titanic, residents will gather for a choral requiem. In the North Atlantic, above the ship's final resting place, passengers will pray as a band strikes up a hymn and three floral wreaths are cast onto the waves....

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- East Timor's president has offered to mediate a crisis in Guinea-Bissau after soldiers arrested the prime minister of the tiny West African nation, and Portugal's defense minister said forces under his command were prepared to evacuate Portuguese citizens....

ABOARD MS BALMORAL (AP) -- In the birthplace of the Titanic, residents will gather for a choral requiem. In the North Atlantic, above the ship's final resting place, passengers will pray as a band strikes up a hymn and three floral wreaths are cast onto the waves....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to deploy the first wave of U.N. military observers to monitor a fragile cease-fire between the Syrian government and opposition fighters....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's King Juan Carlos has successfully undergone hip replacement surgery after a fall caused fractures near his arthritis-affected joint, officials said Saturday. It was the monarch's fourth operation in less than two years....

ISTANBUL (AP) -- Nuclear negotiators for Iran and six world powers were making encouraging progress in bridging differences that have doomed previous meetings meant to reduce fears over Tehran's atomic program, diplomats close to the talks said....

VIENNA (AP) -- A drawing based on information from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that U.N. inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted there. Iran denies such testing and has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of such a chamber....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Thousands of Christians lit candles and torches from a flame that emerged from the tomb of Jesus in a Jerusalem church Saturday as they conducted an ancient fire ritual that celebrates the Messiah's resurrection....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Thousands of Christians lit candles and torches from a flame that emerged from the tomb of Jesus in a Jerusalem church Saturday as they conducted an ancient fire ritual that celebrates the Messiah's resurrection....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The son of a former Afghan peace council chairman killed by a suicide bomber was elected Saturday to succeed his father as head of the group tasked with reaching out to the Taliban to find a political resolution to the decade-long war....

RUBKONA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudanese planes bombarded a disputed oil town near South Sudan's border on Saturday, a southern military official said, and a doctor said bombs aimed at strategic sites in South Sudan's Unity State killed five people....

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Alleged misconduct by a dozen Secret Service agents sent to provide security for President Barack Obama in Colombia threatened to overshadow his diplomatic mission to Latin America....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Al-Qaida fighters attacked a security checkpoint in a southern Yemeni city on Saturday and killed four troops while losing eight of their own, a security official said....

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama's challenge during a weekend summit in Colombia with business executives and political leaders from the Americas is convincing U.S. business that he's serious about expanding trade in Latin America and persuading the region to look northward once again....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Thousands of Christians lit candles and torches from a flame that emerged from the tomb of Jesus in a Jerusalem church Saturday as they conducted an ancient fire ritual that celebrates the Messiah's resurrection....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A security guard who was in the Norwegian government high-rise struck by a car bomb that killed eight people on July 22 says he had barely focused a security camera on the license plate when the vehicle exploded....