MADRID (AP) — A diocese in southern Spain says a court is investigating allegations of sexual abuse by members of a Catholic religious order against disabled residents of a facility run by…

KABUL (AP) — An Afghan army official says four members of an informal community defense force protecting villagers in western Afghanistan have been beheaded during a fierce battle with ins…

BANGKOK (AP) — A top U.S. official said Sunday that Washington is “troubled” by the political environment created by Myanmar’s hard-line military regime ahead of the country’s first elections in…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s most populous state votes Sunday in the first electoral test for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new government, which hopes to avoid a setback that could make running E…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Spain and one to Bulgaria as part of the Obama administration’s effort to eventually close the prison at …

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Sting is speaking out against Brazil’s renewed plan for a huge dam in the Amazon that he helped halt two decades ago, saying the project would destroy a river and…

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has approved construction of residential projects linked to resorts, the tourism minister said Tuesday, possibly opening the door for villas that could one day ring ocea…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A riot at one of Venezuela’s most violent prisons has left eight inmates dead and three injured.

ABOARD THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS’ CAMPAIGN BUS (AP) — Opposition Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg appealed Saturday for an overhaul of British politics, saying he wanted changes to an electoral sy…

PARIS (AP) — Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha, who learned the power of art as a boy during the Holocaust when he sketched scenes from a concentration camp onto salvaged scraps of paper, has …