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MOSCOW (AP) -- ExxonMobil and Russian oil giant Rosneft could invest over $500 billion in a joint venture to explore for and produce oil in the Arctic and the Black Sea....

PARIS (AP) -- Radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada has appealed to Europe's human rights court against Britain's move to deport him to Jordan, a spokeswoman for the court said Wednesday....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Norway's prison terms are "pathetic," mass killer Anders Behring Breivik declared Wednesday in court, claiming the death penalty or a full acquittal were the "only logical outcomes" for his massacre of 77 people....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik vehemently defended his sanity Monday after a forensic panel found flaws in a psychiatric report that declared him sane in the eyes of the law....

BEIRUT (AP) -- The head of the U.N. observers in Syria said Friday a spike in bloodshed is derailing the mission to monitor and defuse more than a year of violence, raising questions about how effective the unarmed force can be in a conflict that every day looks more like a civil war....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's king issued a rare apology Wednesday, saying it was clearly "a mistake" to have gone on an African elephant-hunting trip during his country's severe economic crisis....

NANTERRE, France (AP) -- France's far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen says there's no shame in fighting so-called Islamization and insists it won't breed a mass killer like the Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC is considering $4 billion worth of onshore projects in Nigeria to help capture natural gas currently burning at oil wells that contribute to global warming and can sicken those living nearby, the company's CEO said Wednesday....

LONDON (AP) -- A committee of British lawmakers called Rupert Murdoch unfit to run his global media empire - a finding that reflects just how deeply the phone hacking scandal born of his defunct News of the World has shaken the relationship between the press and politics....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children are expected to be deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, after their scheduled departure the previous day was delayed for bureaucratic reasons, their lawyer said....

RUBKONA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudanese warplanes bombed a market and an oil field in South Sudan on Monday, killing at least two people after Sudanese ground forces had reportedly crossed into South Sudan with tanks and artillery, elevating the risk of all-out war between the two old enemies....

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Fighting spread further along the Sudan-South Sudan border when soldiers from both countries got into a firefight, killing 22 troops,a southern spokesman said Wednesday....

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's central bank says the country has raised (EURO)4.2 billion ($5.5 billion) in a bond auction that saw investors accepting a record low return....

LONDON (AP) -- Markets reined in their expectations of a further economic stimulus from the Bank of England after minutes to its last rate-setting meeting showed a near-unanimous decision not to change the current program....

VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear agency chief will fly to Tehran over the weekend to sign a deal meant to allow his organization to resume a long- stalled search for evidence that Iran worked on developing nuclear arms, the agency and diplomats said Friday....

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- The head of a top European Jewish group says he fears a wave of violence against local communities if Israel attacks Iran....

BEIJING (AP) -- Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said Wednesday that his country was observing the cease-fire plan laid out by special envoy Kofi Annan, despite the regime's continued assaults on rebel-held areas....

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- The Maldives president announced Wednesday that he will call for an early presidential election following a contentious power transfer earlier this year, but the opposition said the plan fell short of its demands....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- An irritated Anders Behring Breivik refused to answer prosecutors' questions Wednesday about the anti-Muslim militant group he claims to belong to, as his trial on terror charges for the massacre of 77 people entered its third day....