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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- The Vietnamese government on Monday agreed to open three new sites in the country for excavation by the United States to search for troop remains from the war, the minister of defense told U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during a meeting here....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni military officials say a suicide bomber has killed four tribal militiamen allied to the army who were advancing on an al-Qaida-held town in the country's south....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Emergency workers in Nigeria fought fires and searched for corpses through the night in a neighborhood that an airliner plowed into, kiling all 153 on board. Rescue officials said Monday they fear many people may have been killed on the ground too....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Emergency crews wearing masks to protect them from the acrid smoke and the stench of the dead searched for bodies in a smoldering, shattered neighborhood near the Lagos airport Monday after the crash of an airliner killed all 153 people on board and an unknown number on the ground....

SINGAPORE (AP) -- A super-stealthy warship that could underpin the U.S. navy's China strategy will be able to sneak up on coastlines virtually undetected and pound targets with electromagnetic "railguns" right out of a sci-fi movie....

SINGAPORE (AP) -- A super-stealthy warship that could underpin the U.S. navy's China strategy will be able to sneak up on coastlines virtually undetected and pound targets with electromagnetic "railguns" right out of a sci-fi movie....

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's prime minister reshuffled his Cabinet on Monday for the second time this year in a desperate attempt to gain the support of opposition lawmakers as he tries to win quick passage of a bill that would raise the sales tax....

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's prime minister reshuffled his Cabinet on Monday for the second time this year in a desperate attempt to gain the support of opposition lawmakers as he tries to win quick passage of a bill that would raise the sales tax....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A senior U.S. official says sanctions on Iran are biting, but more will be done to pressure the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A senior U.S. official says sanctions on Iran are biting, but more will be done to pressure the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program....

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- The Vietnamese government on Monday agreed to open three new sites in the country for excavation by the United States to search for troop remains from the war, the minister of defense told U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during a meeting here....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO and Afghan forces launched a daring operation to rescue two female foreign aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues after learning the Taliban planned to kill one of the hostages, an intelligence official said....

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A bomb tore through a bus carrying government employees and other civilians in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 18 people in an attack that served as a reminder of the continued militant threat despite a significant drop in violence over the past year, officials said....

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide car bomber drove into a church compound in northern Nigeria Sunday and detonated his explosives as worshippers left an early morning service, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said....

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide car bomber drove into a church compound in northern Nigeria Sunday and detonated his explosives as worshippers left an early morning service, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said....

CAIRO (AP) -- Tied to a bed, Nasr al-Sayed Hassan Nasr was tortured for days with electric shocks during his 2010 detention for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood - one of tens of thousands of political prisoners under Hosni Mubarak's 29-year rule....

CAIRO (AP) -- Tied to a bed, Nasr al-Sayed Hassan Nasr was tortured for days with electric shocks during his 2010 detention for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood - one of tens of thousands of political prisoners under Hosni Mubarak's 29-year rule....

CAIRO (AP) -- Tied to a bed, Nasr al-Sayed Hassan Nasr was tortured for days with electric shocks during his 2010 detention for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood - one of tens of thousands of political prisoners under Hosni Mubarak's 29-year rule....

CAIRO (AP) -- Tied to a bed, Nasr al-Sayed Hassan Nasr was tortured for days with electric shocks during his 2010 detention for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood - one of tens of thousands of political prisoners under Hosni Mubarak's 29-year rule....