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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Rebels on Saturday attacked Mali's strategic northern city of Gao, a day after they took the provincial capital of Kidal, witnesses and an official said. The move deepens the crisis in the landlocked nation at the feet of the Sahara after a coup earlier this month by Malian soldiers angry at the government's handling of the rebellion....

OTTAWA (AP) -- A Canadian farmer returned home Saturday after being released from a Lebanese jail where he had been held for a year on allegations that he exported rotten potatoes to Algeria....

OTTAWA (AP) -- A Canadian farmer returned home Saturday after being released from a Lebanese jail where he had been held for a year on allegations that he exported rotten potatoes to Algeria....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemen says government troops have killed 40 militants in a push to rout al-Qaida fighters from the last town under militant control in the southern Abyan province....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez says he's returning to Cuba for another round of cancer treatment....

CAIRO (AP) -- The Muslim Brotherhood is scrambling to broaden its appeal to liberals, leftists and Christians after official results Monday showed that the Islamist group's candidate will face ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister in next month's runoff for president of Egypt....

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- A Jordanian police official says 12 activists have been arrested for insulting the country's King Abdullah II in a rally in the capital....

HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) -- Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand's restive south, killing 14 people and wounding 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists....

HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) -- Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand's restive south, killing 14 people and wounding 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists....

LONDON (AP) -- A British auctioneer says that a first class menu from the Titanic's last lunch has sold for 76,000 pounds (about $120,000.)...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A cruise ship with 1,000 people on board that had drifted for 24 hours after being disabled by a fire was headed toward Malaysia following repairs, the Philippine coast guard said Saturday....

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Six days of tribal clashes in a remote desert town in southern Libya have killed 147 people, the country's health minister said Saturday....

HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba has honored an appeal by Pope Benedict XVI and declared next week's Good Friday a holiday for the first time since the early days following the island's 1959 Revolution, though a decision on whether the move will be permanent will have to wait....

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country's politicians, journalists and the public....

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- An Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week with a threatening note left beside her body was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday. Family members wept uncontrollably by her graveside and her father asked God to exact revenge on those responsible for her death....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A cruise ship with 1,000 people on board that drifted in southern Philippine waters for 24 hours after being disabled by a fire was headed toward Malaysia after repairs, the Philippine coast guard said Saturday....

HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) -- Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly attack in years in Thailand's restive south, killing 11 people and wounding 110 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers just before lunchtime....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- A representative of the military junta that seized control of Mali in a coup last week says the group is confident they will find a solution to the crisis after meeting with Burkina Faso's president....

LONDON (AP) -- British lawmakers have been known to get rowdy during debates. They also have been known to fall down drunk during a vote, headbutt colleagues in a drunken brawl, and run up 50,000 pound ($80,000) tabs for food and drink....

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Bahraini security forces fired tear gas during clashes Saturday with protesters who gathered after authorities acknowledged that gunfire killed a young man during earlier anti-government demonstrations in the Gulf kingdom....