Published 12 minutes ago
French soldier stabbed while on patrol
PARIS — A French soldier patrolling a business neighborhood west of Paris was stabbed in the neck today by a man who quickly fled the scene and is being sought by police, President Francois Hollande said.

Updated 21 minutes ago
Hezbollah: Our men are fighting in Syria
BEIRUT — The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah warned today that the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period," and vowed his Shiite militant group will not stand idly by while its chief ally in Damascus is under attack.

Updated 44 minutes ago
School bus fire kills 16 in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan — Sixteen schoolchildren and a teacher burned to death in eastern Pakistan early today when a short-circuit near a leaking gas tank caused their minibus to burst into flames, police said.

Published 1 hour ago
Violence, riots continue in Sweden
STOCKHOLM — Community patrols and a beefed-up police presence helped to calm violence around Stockholm overnight today but 20 to 30 cars were still torched in poor immigrant suburbs and serious incidents were reported outside the capital for the first time.

Published 4 hours ago
Zookeeper mauled by tiger dies
LONDON — British police say a zookeeper who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park has died.

Published 7 hours ago
Would-be suicide bomber killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — A would-be suicide bomber died when his explosives-rigged vest went off prematurely in Afghanistan's capital today, police said. The apparent failed attack came a day after a major Taliban assault on an international compound in Kabul left 10 people dead including the six attackers.

Published 7 hours ago
11 injured in Russian suicide bombing
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — A female suicide bomber injured at least 11 police officers and civilians, including two children, in the southern Russian region of Dagestan today, police said.

Published 21 hours ago
Nights of rioting test Sweden
STOCKHOLM — Residents of Stockholm braced for more violence Friday after five consecutive nights of rioting that have rocked the Swedish capital and shaken the Scandinavian country’s self-image as a tolerant, liberal place.

5/24/2013 12:28 PM
Man who killed relatives appears in U.S. court
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — An American man killed his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic and then flew to the United States, where he was arrested at an airport, authorities said today.

5/24/2013 10:17 AM
2 men arrested on UK-bound flight
LONDON —Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, officials said, rattling the U.K. just days a British soldier was killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack.