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LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment Wednesday for arming and supporting murderous rebels in Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds," a landmark sentence activists hope will send a clear message to despots around the world that they will be held to account for sponsoring atrocities....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment Wednesday for arming and supporting murderous rebels in Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds," a landmark sentence activists hope will send a clear message to despots around the world that they will be held to account for sponsoring atrocities....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment Wednesday for arming and supporting murderous rebels in Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds," a landmark sentence activists hope will send a clear message to despots around the world that they will be held to account for sponsoring atrocities....

MAHACHAI, Thailand (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on her first foreign trip in nearly a quarter-century, offered encouragement Wednesday to impoverished migrants whose flight from their homeland is emblematic of the devastation wrought there by decades of misrule....

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Supreme Court has endorsed the extradition of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to Sweden, bringing the secret-spilling Internet activist a big step closer to prosecution in a Scandinavian court....

CAIRO (AP) -- Thousands of people took to the streets in cities across Egypt on Friday to demand that Ahmed Shafiq, a former senior official in Hosni Mubarak's ousted regime, be disqualified from next month's presidential runoff....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's key oil industry was briefly affected by the powerful computer virus known as "Flame" that has unprecedented data-snatching capabilities and can eavesdrop on computer users, a senior Iranian military official said Wednesday....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's defense minister abruptly proposed Wednesday that Israel consider "unilateral action" if long-stalled peace talks with the Palestinians don't produce a deal - suggesting Israel may be thinking of withdrawing on its own from parts of the West Bank, as it did from the Gaza Strip seven years ago....

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Nelson Mandela's African National Congress brought its centenary celebrations to his home village in rural eastern South Africa Wednesday....

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Nelson Mandela's African National Congress brought its centenary celebrations to his home village in rural eastern South Africa Wednesday....

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Nelson Mandela's African National Congress brought its centenary celebrations to his home village in rural eastern South Africa Wednesday....

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI broke his silence Wednesday over the leaked documents scandal that has convulsed the Vatican, saying he was saddened by the betrayal but grateful to those aides who work faithfully and in silence to help him do his job....

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI broke his silence Wednesday over the leaked documents scandal that has convulsed the Vatican, saying he was saddened by the betrayal but grateful to those aides who work faithfully and in silence to help him do his job....

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI broke his silence Wednesday over the leaked documents scandal that has convulsed the Vatican, saying he was saddened by the betrayal but grateful to those aides who work faithfully and in silence to help him do his job....

Oil prices fell to near $89 a barrel Wednesday as Spain's escalating financial crisis renewed focus on Europe's sputtering economy and its dragging effect on global crude demand....

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) -- Security services in Azerbaijan say they have arrested 40 suspects and seized weapons as they thwarted a series of planned terror attacks against the Eurovision Song Contest....

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) -- Security services in Azerbaijan say they have arrested 40 suspects and seized weapons as they thwarted a series of planned terror attacks against the Eurovision Song Contest....

CAIRO (AP) -- Hosni Mubarak's two sons were charged Wednesday with insider trading and referred to trial before a criminal court....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian forces renewed shelling of the central city of Homs on Monday, one day after the head of the U.N. observers' mission demanded that warring parties allow the evacuation of women, children, elderly and sick people, activists said....

SAN ISIDRO, Colombia (AP) -- Residents of this remote hamlet that lacks running water and electricity, and lives off cattle ranching and coca-growing were preparing a barbeque for Wednesday's planned handover of a French journalist by Colombia's main leftist rebel group....