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PERTH, Australia — A man ejected from a pub in Australia broke into a zoo and climbed onto the back of a crocodile named Fatso, which bit him on the leg but then let him...

WARSAW, Poland — Henryk Jankowski, a Polish priest who gained prominence in the 1980s by supporting Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement but who later saw his reputation ma...

Al-Qaida-linked group suspected in 2 blasts KAMPALA, Uganda— An al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group suspected in twin bombings in Uganda's capital that killed 64 people...

BERN, Switzerland — The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man today after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of h...

Taliban admits elders targeted YAKAGHUND, Pakistan — The men and women wailed, stood stunned or wearily sifted through the rubble Saturday for bodies, survivors and answe...

CAIRO — Egyptian smokers saw prices surge today by as much as 100 percent as the government slapped new taxes on tobacco products in a bid to curb smoking and raise mone...

MANILA, Philippines — Benigno Aquino III was sworn in today as the Philippines' 15th president, leading a Southeast Asian nation his late parents helped liberate from di...

U.S., Russia have remained active MOSCOW — A rock in a Moscow square allegedly concealing electronic spy equipment. A Jaguar-driving double agent contacting handlers by l...

HANOI, Vietnam — The United Nations has launched a $5 million project to clean up Agent Orange contamination at a former U.S military air base in Vietnam, the world body...

TBILISI, Georgia — Authorities in Georgia on Sunday tore down another monument to Soviet dictator and native son Josef Stalin. The monument in the town of Tkibuli in wes...