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PARIS (AP) -- France voted in a presidential run-off election on Sunday that could see Socialist challenger Francois Hollande defeat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy by capitalizing on public anger over the government's austerity policies....

Six European countries are holding elections Sunday. Here is a quick look at what's at stake:...

MOSCOW (AP) -- A protest demonstration by at least 20,000 people on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration as president boiled into a battle with police after protesters tried to split off from the approved venue and march to the Kremlin....

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- The U.S. has finally started the prosecution of five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, but the trial won't be starting anytime soon, and both sides said Sunday that the case could continue for years....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greeks hammered by two years of deep spending cuts voted Sunday in a parliamentary election critical to the country's prospects for pulling itself out of a deep financial crisis that has roiled global markets and threatened Greece's position in the eurozone....

BEIJING (AP) -- As a former U.S. commerce secretary and governor of Washington state, Gary Locke wasn't considered much of a heavyweight on human rights when he became the first Chinese-American ambassador to Beijing last year. Trade and maintaining smooth relations between Washington and its biggest foreign creditor were seen as dominating his agenda....

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to be kicked out of office in elections Sunday. If he goes, he'll be in good company: Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in 2009 has thrown out its leader....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran says it is "concerned" about a U.S.-Afghan strategic partnership agreement signed earlier this week that could keep an American military presence in Afghanistan for years to come....

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Serbs voted Sunday in a national election that gave them a sharp choice between a government seeking European Union membership or one that would include former nationalist allies of the late Balkan strongman Slobodan Milosevic....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek power-sharing talks enter a third and final round Thursday, as parties in the crisis-hit country struggled to hammer out a coalition deal after general elections produced no outright winner....

PARIS (AP) -- France voted in a presidential run-off election on Sunday that could see Socialist challenger Francois Hollande defeat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy by capitalizing on public anger over the government's austerity policies....

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday urged the government of Bangladesh not to do anything that could undermine the effectiveness of the internationally acclaimed Grameen Bank micro-lender....

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- The second attempt to prosecute the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four men accused of helping orchestrate the plot got off to a rough start, with the defendants disrupting their arraignment and forcing the proceedings to drag on late into the night....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Now backed by a parliamentary supermajority, Benjamin Netanyahu has tremendous room to maneuver on Israel's most pressing issues: peace with the Palestinians, possible war with Iran, and the growing rift at home between religious and secular Jews....

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will use a two-day visit to India this week to urge further reductions in Indian imports of Iranian oil....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greeks began voting at precisely 7 a.m. local time (0400 GMT, 12 a.m. EDT) in their most critical - and uncertain - election in decades, with voters set to punish the two main parties that are being held responsible for the country's dire economic straits....

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will use a two-day visit to India this week to urge further reductions in Indian imports of Iranian oil....

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldn't listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants defiantly disrupted an arraignment that dragged into Saturday night in the opening act of the long-stalled effort to prosecute them in a military court....

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's military officials moved swiftly Saturday to prosecute protesters they blamed for an attack on the Defense Ministry, in an attempt to put down increasingly violent protests against their authority just weeks before the country's presidential election....

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's military officials moved swiftly Saturday to prosecute protesters they blamed for an attack on the Defense Ministry, in an attempt to put down increasingly violent protests against their authority just weeks before the country's presidential election....