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Papal greeting

 May 19, 2013; Updated: 12:05 am

Pope Francis arrives Saturday for a meeting with the faithful on the occasion of a Pentecostal vigil at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Buddha's birthday party

 May 18, 2013; Updated: 12:26 am

Buddhists gather under lanterns during a service to celebrate Buddha's birthday at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday. Many Buddhists visited temples nationally to celebrate Buddha's 2,557th birthday and pray with their wishes.

Crisis in the bathroom: Venezuela running low on toilet paper

 May 17, 2013; Updated: 12:52 am

Caracas, Venezuela - Venezuelans scrambled to stock up on toilet paper Thursday as fears of a bathroom emergency spread despite the socialist government's promise to import 50 million rolls.

Papal pardon

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Pope Francis frees a dove during his weekly general audience Wednesday in St. Peter Square at the Vatican. As Francis toured the square in his open-topped popemobile, someone at the edge of the crowd thrust a white bird cage at him. Looking puzzled,...

Nakba Day clashes

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 11:43 pm

A game before the storm

 May 15, 2013; Updated: 11:38 pm

Novice Buddhist monks play soccer Tuesday in Sittwe, Myanmar, ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Mahasen. The U.N. said the cyclone, expected later this week, could swamp makeshift housing camps sheltering tens of thousands of Rohingya. Myanmar state...

U.S. diplomat ordered out of Russia

 May 15, 2013; Updated: 11:29 pm

Moscow - A U.S. diplomat was ordered Tuesday to leave the country after the Kremlin's security services said he tried to recruit a Russian agent, and they displayed tradecraft tools that seemed straight from a cheap spy thriller: wigs,...

Astronaut Hadfield's space station music video is a first

 May 15, 2013; Updated: 11:43 pm

Houston, we have a superstar. He's Chris Hadfield, who crawled out of a space capsule on the plains of Kazakhstan early Tuesday, dealing with gravity for the first time in five months and sudden global celebrity from singing a gone-viral...

Never again

 May 14, 2013; Updated: 11:45 pm

Reshma Begum, the 19-year-old seamstress who spent 17 days trapped in the rubble of a collapsed factory building, adjusts her shawl as she meets the media Monday at a hospital in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Begum said Monday that she will never...

UPDATED: Russian Federal Security Service detains U.S. diplomat accused of spying

 May 14, 2013; Updated: 1:40 pm

Russia's security services say they have caught a U.S. diplomat who they claim is a CIA agent in a red-handed attempt to recruit a Russian agent.

Sharif declares victory in Pakistan

 May 12, 2013; Updated: 11:30 pm

Islamabad, Pakistan - Nawaz Sharif, a wealthy businessman who twice served as Pakistan's prime minister in the 1990s and brought the country into the world's nuclear club, appeared Saturday night to be headed to an unprecedented third term...

Vendor's suicide reflects despair of Mideast youth

 May 12, 2013; Updated: 11:29 pm

Souk al-Jumma, Tunisia - On the day he chose to die, Adel Khedri woke up at 6:30 a.m., took his black backpack and headed down to the busy boulevard where he worked as a cigarette peddler.

It was the last in a series of odd jobs that...

Woman rescued more than two weeks after building collapse in Bangladesh

 May 11, 2013; Updated: 12:50 am

Survivor Reshma Begum lies on a stretcher Friday after being pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Begum was working in a factory on the second floor of Rana Plaza when the building began...

Pakistan prepares for historic, unpredictable election

 May 11, 2013; Updated: 11:47 pm

Islamabad - Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan holds historic elections today pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts...

Bangladesh collapse survivor rescued after 17 days

 May 10, 2013; Updated: 11:48 am

Victory Day in Moscow

 May 10, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Two young men speak with World War II veterans Aleksakin Nikolay, 90, second from left, and Anna Parukhova, 90, during Victory Day Thursday in Moscow's Gorky Park. It is Russia's most important secular holiday, honoring the huge military and...

Envoy describes Benghazi attack

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Washington - Minutes after Greg Hicks learned that the perimeter of the U.S. mission in Benghazi had been breached by men with guns, he punched a cell phone number to reach Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, his immediate boss, who was at...

Deadly tanker explosion in Mexico

 May 8, 2013; Updated: 11:50 pm

An aerial view shows first responders working next to destroyed homes and vehicles after a gas tanker truck exploded on a highway early Tuesday in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec. The blast killed at least 20 people and injured dozens, according...

Height advantage

 May 7, 2013; Updated: 11:47 pm

Former NBA Houston Rockets basketball player Yao Ming, right, gives pointers to Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay (holding the basketball) on how to dribble Monday during his courtesy call at the Coconut Palace, the official residence of the...

Israel: Hezbollah is target, not Syria

 May 7, 2013; Updated: 11:43 pm

Jerusalem - Two small rockets from Syria were lobbed across the boundary into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Monday, and the Israeli military quickly played down the incident as "accidental spillover" from Syria's raging civil...

Syria warns Israel after strike

 May 6, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Beirut - The Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad warned Sunday that a series of powerful Israeli airstrikes near the Syrian capital opened the door to "all the options," underscoring the possibility that Syria's civil war could spill...

U.S. official says Benghazi assault looked like a terrorist attack 'from the get-go'

 May 6, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Washington - The deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya during a 2012 attack on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi told investigators he thought it was a terrorist strike from the beginning, according to interview excerpts...

Stench of death everywhere as more bodies found

 May 5, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Dhaka, Bangladesh - Ten days after the horrifying collapse of a garment-factory building, life has become still more gruesome for crews working to recover bodies at the site. The death toll rose to 547 on Saturday and the stench of...

Seven U.S. soldiers killed Saturday in Afghanistan

 May 5, 2013; Updated: 11:49 pm

Seven U.S. soldiers and a member of the NATO-led coalition were killed on Saturday in one of the deadliest days for Americans and other foreign troops in Afghanistan in recent months, as the Taliban continued attacks as part of their spring...

Official says building collapse not 'really serious' despite 519 dead

 May 4, 2013; Updated: 12:21 am

Dhaka, Bangladesh - Bangladesh's finance minister downplayed the impact of last week's factory-building collapse on his country's garment industry, saying Friday he didn't think it was "really serious" hours after the...

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