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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Barack Obama told Russia's leader Monday that he would have more flexibility after the November election to deal with the contentious issue of missile defense, a candid assessment of political reality that was picked up by a microphone without either leader apparently knowing....

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- After 76 days, Gabor Rakonczay - isolated and incommunicado for nearly 50 of those after his canoe capsized - has become the first person to paddle across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to the Caribbean....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel cut working relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday and will bar a U.N. team from entering Israel or the West Bank for a planned investigation of Jewish settlements, the Foreign Ministry said....

ISTANBUL (AP) -- Events are pushing Turkey ever closer to setting up a buffer zone in Syria to protect civilians....

PARIS (AP) -- Mohamed Merah grew up in one of the toughest housing projects of Toulouse, with his mother, two brothers and two sisters. At age five, his parents split up - and he took that hard. As a youth he turned to petty crime, landing in prison twice....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- A Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran shouting through a demonstration in the Indian capital Monday, just before a visit by China's president and following dozens of self-immolations done in China in protest of its rule over Tibet....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- A Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran shouting through a demonstration in the Indian capital Monday, just ahead of a visit by China's president and amid a series of self-immolations done inside Tibet to protest Beijing's rule....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The security summit opening Monday was supposed to be an opportunity for President Barack Obama and other leaders to find ways to keep nuclear material away from terrorists. So far, North Korea has upstaged that agenda....

LEON, Mexico (AP) -- He donned a sombrero and was serenaded by mariachi bands, embraced by Mexicans who called him their brother. Pope Benedict XVI has a bit of a tougher sell as he heads to a Cuba that until recently was officially atheist....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned North Korea and Iran on Monday that their options are few, and their friends fewer, as those nations refuse to back down from actions the world sees as menacing....

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- President Abdoulaye Wade said Monday he had kept his promise by conceding defeat just hours after results showed his opponent winning, a move that solidified Senegal's reputation as one of few established democracies in western Africa....

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- President Abdoulaye Wade said Monday he had kept his promise by conceding defeat just hours after results showed his opponent winning, a move that solidified Senegal's reputation as one of few established democracies in western Africa....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned North Korea and Iran on Monday that their options are few and their friends fewer as those nations refuse to back down from actions the world sees as menacing....

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's financial regulator has fined the queen's bank, Coutts Bank, 8.75 million pounds ($13.8 million) for failing to maintain effective controls on accounts of high-risk customers and to prevent money laundering....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- A Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran shouting through a protest in the Indian capital Monday, just ahead of a visit by China's president and following self-immolations in the Himalayan region against Beijing's rule....

LEON, Mexico (AP) -- He donned a sombrero and was serenaded by mariachi bands, embraced by Mexicans who called him their brother. Pope Benedict XVI has a bit of a tougher sell as he heads to a Cuba that until recently was officially atheist....

BANGKOK (AP) -- For years, Myanmar's former military regime regarded Aye Chan Naing as an enemy of the state, jailing 17 of his reporters and denouncing the exiled news organization he leads as a producer of "killer broadcasts" and a threat to national security....

BANGKOK (AP) -- For years, Myanmar's former military regime regarded Aye Chan Naing as an enemy of the state, jailing 17 of his reporters and denouncing the exiled news organization he leads as a producer of "killer broadcasts" and a threat to national security....

BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. observers suspended their patrols in Syria on Saturday due to a recent spike in violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan was unraveling despite months of diplomatic efforts to prevent the country from plunging into civil war....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The United States has offered a $10 million bounty for a Pakistani militant leader who allegedly orchestrated the 2008 Mumbai attacks and has been directing an anti-American political movement in recent months....