Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal. Read More

Italy is hailing the capture of a wig-wearing mobster who was on the list of the country's top 30 fugitives. Read More

The U.S. attorney general says reviews are under way to decide which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts or special military tribunals. Read More

A senior Iranian lawmaker warned Russia that its delay in delivering an anti-aircraft missile defense system to Tehran could harm relations between the two countries, state television reported Sunday. Read More

Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall. Read More

Queen Elizabeth II led Britain's annual ceremony for the country's war dead Sunday, honoring them with a moment of silence as the military reported the 200th British soldier killed in combat in Afghanistan. Read More

Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China _ one that would exclude the United States. Read More

A day-by-day look at President Barack Obama's trip to Asia: Read More

A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan, killing an anti-Taliban mayor who had formed a militia to fight the militants and 11 other people, officials said. Read More

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, under fire from his international partners to clean up his administration, insisted Sunday there's no place for corrupt officials within his government. Read More

Harald Jaeger was a loyal East German border guard _ respected and trusted to command a crossing point to the west on Berlin's Bornholmer Strasse. Read More

Purported Taliban commander claims responsibility for Pakistan market bombing that killed 12. Read More

U.S. Homeland Security officials are working with groups around United States to head off any possible anti-Muslim backlash following the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, the agency's chief said Sunday. Read More

Twenty years ago Monday, they danced atop the Berlin Wall, feet thudding on the cold concrete, arms raised in victory, hands clasped in friendship and giddy hope. Read More

An Afghan police official says at least two private security guards have been wounded and two fuel tankers set on fire in eastern Afghanistan when militants attacked a supply convoy for NATO forces. Read More

Key dates in the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe in 1989: Read More

Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday. Read More

Britain's Defense Ministry says a British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan. Read More

Saudi Arabian forces have taken control of a mountain straddling the border with Yemen and cleared it of Shiite rebels, in five days of fighting that saw three soldiers killed and 15 wounded, the assistant defense minister said on Sunday. Read More

Nothing like a little time apart to rekindle the affections that could lead to a baby panda. Read More