Military divers have found the body of one of two U.S. soldiers who went missing last week as they tried to recover airdropped supplies that fell into a river in western Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday. Read More

Cambodia has turned down a request from Thailand to arrest former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who last year was sentenced in absentia by a Thai court to two years imprisonment for violating a conflict of interest law. Read More

Ten suspected militants are dead after helicopter gunships shelled militant hide-outs in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region. Read More

A naval skirmish this week between the two Koreas will not affect Washington's decision to send a senior diplomat to communist North Korea, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday. Read More

France is commemorating the end of World War I hand-in-hand with the country vanquished in the so-called "great war" as German Chancellor Angela Merkel joins President Nicolas Sarkozy to remember the fallen _ and to celebrate peace. Read More

Just minutes before anti-riot police charged opposition marchers in Tehran last week, a new chant bubbled up from the crowd: "Death to Nobody." Read More

A United Airlines pilot who was pulled from his trans-Atlantic flight to Chicago shortly before takeoff has been charged with having too much alcohol in his system, British police said Tuesday. Read More

Brazil emerged early Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged its major cities into darkness for hours, prompting concern from residents about another black eye for a country hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. Read More

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. will not impose conditions on Myanmar to force democratic changes there. Read More

A radical American imam who communicated with the Fort Hood shooting suspect and called him a hero was once arrested in Yemen on suspicion of giving religious approval to militants to conduct kidnappings. Yemeni authorities are now hunting for Anwar al-Awlaki to determine whether he has al-Qaida ties. Read More

The cone-shaped Mayon volcano in the central Philippines, which killed scores in an eruption 16 years ago, shot up an ash plume Wednesday _ prompting hundreds of nearby residents to evacuate in case it blows again. Read More

Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four others, authorities said. Read More

South Korea's troops went on high alert Wednesday for possible retaliation by North Korea after one of its navy ships was nearly destroyed and an officer reportedly killed in a skirmish with the South, ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama. Read More

Revelations that Taiwanese Premier Wu Den-yih traveled abroad with a former gangster have excited great interest among this island's sensation-seeking media, but left few of its 23 million people gaping in surprise. Read More

Linden MacIntyre, an investigative journalist who wrote a novel about sexual abuse by Catholic priests, has won Canada's richest and glitziest literary award. Read More

Canadian military officials in Afghanistan said detainees are being offered swine flu vaccinations _ a decision the federal health minister on Tuesday denounced as "outrageous" at a time there is a shortage of the vaccine in Canada. Read More

Police rescued four suspected kidnappers from a town hall surrounded by hundreds of angry residents who wanted to punish them themselves. Read More

A Mexican mayor known for his tough anti-crime proposals and seeming advance knowledge of the death of a purported kidnapper said Tuesday that he has received threats and now has a security escort. Read More

Lawmakers overwhelmingly gave final approval to Jean-Max Bellerive as Haiti's new prime minister Tuesday, making him the sixth person to hold the post since 2004 in this politically unstable nation. Read More

A group of 11 countries vulnerable to adverse effects of global warming urged world leaders Tuesday to reach a binding agreement at next month's global conference on the issue. Read More