Elizabeth Taylor's first wedding dress up for sale
LONDON (AP) -- The gown Elizabeth Taylor wore at the first of her eight weddings is for sale. You'll need at least 30,000 pounds ($47,000) to buy it and a tiny waist to wear it.... 6/19/2013 12:10 PM

Floods close Lourdes pilgrimage site in Pyrenees
LOURDES, France (AP) -- Heavy floods in southwest France have left two dead and forced the closure of the Catholic pilgrimage site in Lourdes and the evacuation of pilgrims from nearby hotels.... 6/19/2013 12:10 PM

Afghan leader backs away from Taliban talks
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's president said Wednesday he will not pursue peace talks with the Taliban unless the United States steps out of the negotiations, while also insisting the militant group stop its violent attacks on the ground after it claimed responsibility for a rocket attack that killed four Americans.... 6/19/2013 12:09 PM

Military: Thurayas banned in northeast Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Soldiers fighting to halt an insurgency by Islamic militants are banning the use of Thuraya satellite telephones by civilians in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, throttling communications already made difficult by cut cell phone service.... 6/19/2013 12:05 PM

Protesters out again in Brazil's biggest city
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Scattered street demonstrations popped up around Brazil early Wednesday as protesters continued their collective cry against the low-quality public services they receive in exchange for high taxes and high prices.... 6/19/2013 12:05 PM

Palestinian party toughens line on Israel talks
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- The Palestinian president and his Fatah movement on Wednesday signaled a tough line on talks with Israel, casting new doubt on U.S. efforts to revive long-stalled negotiations.... 6/19/2013 12:01 PM

World powers to meet on Syrian rebel demands
PARIS (AP) -- A French diplomat says officials from the United States and other countries will meet in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday to decide how to respond to requests for help from the Free Syrian Army.... 6/19/2013 11:58 AM

Myanmar court convicts 2 Muslims over violence
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A court in Myanmar has found two Muslim women guilty of sparking a recent outbreak of sectarian violence, one of them by bumping into a Buddhist novice monk.... 6/19/2013 11:51 AM

Egypt top cleric: Protests against Morsi permitted
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's top Muslim cleric says peaceful protests against the president are permitted, dismissing declarations by Islamist hard-liners that those behind protests planned for June 30 are heretics.... 6/19/2013 11:42 AM

Airbus clocks 59 orders for new A350 wide-body jet
LE BOURGET, France (AP) -- Airbus raked in orders Wednesday for its new A350, announcing 59 sales of the wide-body jet that flew for the first time last week.... 6/19/2013 11:41 AM

Japan formally OKs new nuclear safety requirements
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's nuclear watchdog formally approved a set of new safety requirements for atomic power plants on Wednesday, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster in a move critics charged was too hasty.... 6/19/2013 11:37 AM

Israel to export 40 percent of its natural gas
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel has decided to export 40 percent of the natural gas it expects to produce from offshore wells, keeping a larger amount for local use than expected.... 6/19/2013 11:33 AM

Correction: Jordan-Syria-War Games story
ZARQA, Jordan (AP) -- In a June 18 story about U.S.-led war games in Jordan, The Associated Press reported erroneously the organization that employs Tawfiq Hennawi. He works for the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization, not the International Committee of the Red Cross.... 6/19/2013 11:28 AM

Palace sheds some light on Kate's baby plans
LONDON (AP) -- With Prince William and the former Kate Middleton expecting their first child in mid-July - and much of the world interested in the birth of a future monarch - officials at Clarence House have released some of the couple's plans, although many details are still being kept private. Kate has made several public appearances recently but is expected to keep a low profile in the final weeks of her pregnancy. Here is the latest news about the infant who will, upon entering the ... 6/19/2013 11:28 AM

Obama warns EU over high youth unemployment
BERLIN (AP) -- President Barack Obama raised the prospect Wednesday that Europe might need to adjust its economic policies to tackle high youth unemployment and make sure that some countries don't "lose a generation."... 6/19/2013 11:26 AM

Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions
BERLIN (AP) -- Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time."... 6/19/2013 11:22 AM

Iceland: 'informal talks' about Snowden asylum
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A WikiLeaks spokesman who claims to represent Edward Snowden has reached out to government officials in Iceland about the potential of the NSA leaker applying for asylum in the Nordic country, officials there said Wednesday.... 6/19/2013 11:19 AM

Dolce and Gabbana convicted of tax evasion
MILAN (AP) -- A Milan court has convicted the designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of tax evasion.... 6/19/2013 11:09 AM

16 dead: Militants infiltrate UN's Somalia office
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Seven al-Qaida-linked gunmen detonated a pick-up truck rigged with explosives at the gate of the U.N. compound in Somalia's capital Wednesday, launching a bombs-and-gunfire assault that saw militants pour into the complex, killing at least nine people, including three foreigners, officials said.... 6/19/2013 10:57 AM

UAE charges 30 suspects with plotting coup
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The United Arab Emirates broadened its crackdown on perceived threats and risked deepening its rift with Egypt on Wednesday with plans to bring 30 Egyptian and UAE suspects to trial for alleged coup plotting linked to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.... 6/19/2013 10:49 AM