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The Afghan government and US special forces sign a deal on the conduct of controversial night raids.

NINGBO, China (AP) -- China's foreign minister said Sunday that Beijing is troubled by North Korea's plan to launch a long-range rocket and has urged more diplomacy to handle the situation, a measured response to a provocation that has unsettled the region....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Rescue workers used bulldozers Sunday to dig through huge banks of snow following a massive avalanche a day earlier that engulfed a military complex and buried at least 135 people, most of them soldiers, in a mountain battleground close to the Indian border....

Syria wants "written guarantees" from the opposition before withdrawing troops from flashpoints parts of the country, the foreign ministry says.

NEW DELHI (AP) -- The leaders of India and Pakistan said they agreed in talks Sunday that strained relations between their rival South Asian nations should be normalized....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- It was a risky but successful operation: British and other NATO forces stormed a cave tucked in the mountains before dawn Saturday and rescued two foreign female aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues being held hostage by Taliban-linked militants....

Manchester City assistant manager David Platt admits that the Premier League title is in United's hands.

Sixteen homes on the North York Moors remain without power after snow and ice brought down power lines last week.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel has banned German intellectual Guenter Grass from visiting the country because of a critical poem published by the Nobel laureate last week....

RENNES, France (AP) -- The man polls say has the best shot at becoming France's next president wants to hire thousands more teachers, scrap Europe's expensive, hard-won bailout package, and pull his country back from both Afghanistan and NATO....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- An explosion struck a city Sunday in central Nigeria that has seen hundreds killed in religious and ethnic violence in recent years, causing unknown injuries as diplomats had warned of possible terrorist attacks over the Easter holiday, police said....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni troops and armed tribesmen drove al-Qaida militants from two southern strongholds on Tuesday, a major victory in a U.S.-backed offensive to seize territory held for more than a year by the terror network as it exploited political turmoil to gain a foothold in the strategic area....

Soggy weather will spread across the Eastern U.S. on Sunday as two weather systems converge. A strong low pressure system moving over the Gulf states will continue pulling warm and moist air in from the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, a cold front will stretch from the Northeast down the Ohio River valley into Mississippi River valley....

Titanic story played out on Belfast waterfront

Dr Bob Ballard, the explorer who located the wreck of the Titanic nearly 30 years ago says more needs to be done to protect it from damage.

A 16-year-old boy is seriously injured after being hit by a car in Angus on Saturday evening.

The United States and Afghanistan have reached a landmark deal in a bid to end visceral Afghan anger over special operations raids on local homes, officials from both nations said Sunday.

Yemen's main airport has re-opened after air force troops protested at the sacking of their commander, the half-brother of former President Saleh.

Pope Benedict has expressed fears that mankind is unable to distinguish good from evil in his Easter vigil mass.

The Archbishop of Canterbury will call for peace in the Middle East and warn against "downgrading" religious education in secondary schools in his final Easter sermon.