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JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- China will send its first woman into space Saturday along with two other astronauts to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming the only third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit....

ELASHA BIYAHA, Somalia (AP) -- Evil laughter pealed out of the mobile phone. Abshir Ali Mohamed, an al-Shabab defector now wearing a Somali military uniform, had asked his former commander to join him. The commander, an al-Shabab judge known for ordering amputations, said he would instead kill Mohamed....

ELASHA BIYAHA, Somalia (AP) -- Evil laughter pealed out of the mobile phone. Abshir Ali Mohamed, an al-Shabab defector now wearing a Somali military uniform, had asked his former commander to join him. The commander, an al-Shabab judge known for ordering amputations, said he would instead kill Mohamed....

TOKYO (AP) -- Police on Friday arrested the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult's deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo subways 17 years ago, ending one of Japan's longest manhunts and closing a chapter on the worst terrorist attack in the country's history....

TOKYO (AP) -- Police on Friday arrested the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult's deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo subways 17 years ago, ending one of Japan's longest manhunts and closing a chapter on the worst terrorist attack in the country's history....

ELASHA BIYAHA, Somalia (AP) -- Somalia's government spokesman says some 500 al-Shabab fighters have left the group and joined the government in a sign of disarray among the Islamist group's ranks....

BERN, Switzerland (AP) -- Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi resumed her European tour Friday, after a brief bout of illness prompted by exhaustion forced her to cancel a gala dinner the night before....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Police in Nigeria say they detained and questioned a federal lawmaker who led a probe into the country's mismanaged gasoline subsidy program that found billions of dollars misspent....

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says it's now up to the European Union to make the political choices needed to strengthen the euro - and proposals will be coming soon....

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rioters angry over the killing of an independence activist by police set fires and killed one person in Indonesia's restive Papua province before hundreds of security forces restored order, the police chief said Friday....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Some Greek pharmacies will close on Friday, but not in protest against the relentless burden of austerity or the withering of state reimbursements for the drugs they sell. Rather, they are mourning for one of their own, a pharmacist who was shot dead in an apparent holdup....

BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese spacecraft carrying three astronauts docked with an orbiting module Monday, another first for the country as it strives to match American and Russian exploits in space....

JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- China will launch three astronauts, including a mother of one who flies transport planes, to live and work on a space station for about a week, a major step in its goal of becoming only the third nation with a permanent base orbiting Earth....

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case that sparked an uproar after graphic photos of the mother and her dead baby were circulated online....

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case that sparked an uproar after graphic photos of the mother and her dead baby were circulated online....

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case that sparked an uproar after graphic photos of the mother and her dead baby were circulated online....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A veteran Middle Eastern TV reporter who had interviewed Osama bin Laden months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has disappeared with four other people on a restive southern Philippine island where Muslim militants are active, officials said Friday....

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rioters angry over the killing of an independence activist by police set fires and killed one person in Indonesia's restive Papua province before hundreds of security forces restored order, the police chief said Friday....

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A signature trophy that Gen. Oscar Naranjo has carefully displayed in glass at Police Intelligence headquarters is odd by any measure: the neatly folded uniform of a rebel commander slain in 2008, clearly showing the holes from the shrapnel that killed him....

TOKYO (AP) -- His trail cold for years, the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult's deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways in 1995 was caught at a comic book cafe Friday, closing a chapter on Japan's worst terrorist attack....