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PARIS (AP) -- France has barred a group of Muslim clerics, including one of the most prominent voices in Sunni Islam, from entering the country to attend a conference....

HAVANA (AP) -- The spiritual leader of the world's Roman Catholics and the brothers who have carried Cuba along an increasingly solitary Communist path mixed warm smiles with the hard language of their respective camps during Pope Benedict XVI's three-day tour of Cuba....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- From one of the hiding places where he has been holed up since last month's coup, Mali's president penned a resignation letter and handed it to an emissary to deliver to the country's new leaders, while reporters looked on....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar has sent out a surprisingly broad guest list for elections Sunday, hoping to showcase its democratic credentials to the world....

PARIS (AP) -- A French court convicted longtime perfume maker Jean-Paul Guerlain of making racist insults on national television and fined him Thursday (EURO)6,000 ($8,000)....

PARIS (AP) -- A French court convicted longtime perfume maker Jean-Paul Guerlain of making racist insults on national television and fined him Thursday (EURO)6,000 ($8,000)....

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- An 18-year-old Ukranian woman died Thursday, two weeks after her grisly rape set off protests across the country against corruption and favoritism toward the wealthy....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- Religious leaders say a young man who claimed responsibility for France's worst terror attacks in years will be buried in a Muslim cemetery near the southern city where he was killed in a gunfight with police....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Arab summit has opened in Baghdad with only 10 leaders from the 22-member Arab League in attendance....

PARIS (AP) -- For Adlene Hicheur, France's biggest terror attacks in years could not have come at a worse time....

MADRID (AP) -- Flag-waving Spanish workers livid over labor market reforms they see as flagrantly pro-business blocked traffic Thursday, formed boisterous picket lines outside wholesale markets and bus garages and kept some TV programming off the air....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- The Tibetan who burned himself alive on the eve of a visit by China's president left a letter that urged the world to stand up for his homeland, activists said, while Indian authorities detained more Tibetans on Thursday in the Indian capital....

LONDON (AP) -- The communications chief at London's police department has resigned following an investigation touched off by the phone hacking scandal....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- The leaders of five of the world's fast-rising powers agreed Thursday to move toward creating a new development bank that would improve access to capital for poor nations....

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Sweden's defense minister stepped down Thursday, citing the pressure he has faced from the country's media over leaked plans to build a weapons plant in Saudi Arabia....

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Environmental groups warned Thursday they fear an oil spill could be triggered at a North Sea offshore platform that has been leaking highly pressurized gas since the weekend....

HAVANA (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI demanded more freedom for the Catholic Church in communist-run Cuba and preached against "fanaticism" in an unusually political sermon Wednesday before hundreds of thousands at Revolution Plaza, with President Raul Castro in the front row....

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- An inquest has ruled there was no foul play in the fiery death of a top power broker in President Robert Mugabe's party, state media reported Thursday, quoting the attorney general as saying the case shrouded in suspicion is now closed....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Newly elected Israeli opposition leader Shaul Mofaz says he will shrink Israel's economic inequality....

MADRID (AP) -- Spanish workers angry over labor market reforms formed boisterous picket lines outside wholesale markets, some TV stations went off the air and car factories were all but idled in the early stage of a general strike Thursday....