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TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- French police have broadened a probe into the shooting deaths of two paratroopers to include counterterrorism investigators and specialists in serial killers, officials said Friday....

STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) -- Falkland Islanders are so accustomed to making do with what they've got that many still heat their homes with peat stoves, grow their own vegetables, repair their Land Rovers themselves and raise chickens for their soft-boiled eggs....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A Turkish military helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and two young girls on the ground, Turkish and Afghan officials said....

HONG KONG (AP) -- Apple-mania gripped Asia on Friday as the company's latest iPad went on sale, drawing hordes of die-hard fans to shops selling the highly anticipated tablet....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea announced plans Friday to blast a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket, a provocative move that could jeopardize a weeks-old agreement with the U.S. exchanging food aid for nuclear concessions....

DUBLIN (AP) -- The Irish prime minister has flown to the United States to lead a global St. Patrick's Day charm offensive that seeks to woo investment from America, China and other countries to debt-crippled Ireland....

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese state television has accused McDonald's and French retrailer Carrefour of selling expired chicken products in separate incidents amid public anxiety in China over food safety....

SINGAPORE (AP) -- Oil prices rose slightly to near $106 a barrel Friday in Asia after the U.S. denied reports it and Britain plan to release some their strategic crude reserves....

He is the suspect without a name, his identity as shadowed now as the night the Army says he slipped into a pair of slumbering Afghan villages and slaughtered 16 civilians whose safety was his assigned mission....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is seeking to put the best face on an Afghanistan policy called into question by the apparent shelving of talks with insurgents and announcement from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul that it will not support the fielding of U.S. forces deep into rural villages, a key goal of the current military strategy....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea announced plans Friday to launch a long-range rocket mounted with a satellite next month, a provocative move just weeks after it agreed to nuclear concessions including a moratorium on long-range missile tests....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy and a captain who was recently praised as a hero are among eight people believed dead after a fishing boat sank in rough weather off the coast of southern New Zealand....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy and a captain who was recently praised as a hero are among eight people believed dead after a fishing boat sank in rough weather off the coast of southern New Zealand....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Sunday urged North Korea to cancel a planned long-range rocket test, calling it "a provocative act that poses a threat to international peace and security."...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Eight people are feared dead after a fishing boat sank Thursday off New Zealand's coast....

NEW YORK (AP) -- An exhibit that opened Thursday offered New Yorkers a rare glimpse of life inside North Korea, including children singing in a theater, stark views of Pyongyang at dusk and North Koreans bowing before a monument of the nation's founder, Kim Il Sung....

NEW YORK (AP) -- An exhibit that opened Thursday offered New Yorkers a rare glimpse of life inside North Korea, including children singing in a theater, stark views of Pyongyang at dusk and North Koreans bowing before a monument of the nation's founder, Kim Il Sung....

A timeline of some key events in the Syrian uprising:...

A timeline of some key events in the Syrian uprising:...

A timeline of some key events in the Syrian uprising:...