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A young survivor of self-confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik's massacre on a Norwegian island told his trial Wednesday how she stayed alive by hiding behind the dead bodies of her friends. More »Norway massacre survivor 'hid under friends' dead bodies'
A new Palestinian government in the West Bank featuring 11 new faces was sworn in on Wednesday at a ceremony in Ramallah, in a move which angered the Hamas government in Gaza. More »New Palestinian government sworn in
French President Francois Hollande's new Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault got to work selecting a cabinet on his first day on the job Wednesday, vowing to get the crisis-hit country back on its feet. More »France's new prime minister readies fresh cabinet
A journalist who was kidnapped a week ago has been found shot to death, making him the 20th to be killed in Honduras in the past three years amid rising gang violence, police said Wednesday. More »Kidnapped journalist found dead in Honduras
Debt-laden Greece is headed for new elections next month following an indecisive vote and on Wednesday named a judge as caretaker premier amid growing fears over the country's eurozone future. More »Greece set for new election in June
Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who was moved from jail to hospital last week, resumed medical treatment Wednesday after halting it a day earlier in protest, officials said. More »Tymoshenko 'agrees to resume treatment'
Syrian forces were accused Wednesday of having "executed" 15 civilians, as the office of envoy Kofi Annan said members of a UN observer team were evacuated a day after a bomb blast hit their convoy. More »Syria accused of new 'massacre' UN observers evacuated
Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe's worst massacre since World War II. More »Mladic masterminded ethnic cleansing, court told
A west African Al-Qaeda splinter group on Wednesday threatened to kill a Spanish hostage kidnapped in western Algeria last year if their demands are not met, a spokesman said. More »W. African jihadists threaten to kill Spanish hostage
Moscow authorities broke up a week-long Occupy protest on Wednesday that sprung up in response to President Vladimir Putin's inauguration, warning they would prevent similar actions during his third term. More »Moscow police break up anti-Putin sit-in
The Spanish government on Wednesday insisted Basque separatist group ETA must disband unconditionally, rebuffing its pressure for direct talks with Spain and France. More »Spain refuses ETA talks, demands disbandment
Convicted Liberian warlord Charles Taylor accused UN prosecutors Wednesday of paying witnesses to testify against him as he addressed a war crimes court in The Hague. More »Convicted Taylor says prosecutors paid witnesses
Kenyan police have arrested a man suspected to have taken part in a grenade attack on a Mombasa restaurant that killed one person, police chief Mathew Iteere said Wednesday. More »Kenyan police arrest suspect in grenade attack
Indonesian investigators on Wednesday expressed hope that the newly found cockpit voice recorder from a Russian airliner would help answer why the plane crashed into a mountain. More »Russian plane crash probe focuses on black box
Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic goes on trial Wednesday, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in his campaign of ethnic cleansing and the massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica. More »Bosnia war crimes trial of ex-army chief Mladic to open
At least two people were killed and 39 wounded in Colombia's capital when a bomb exploded in what President Juan Manuel Santos said was an assassination attempt against a former interior minister. More »Deadly bomb blast targets Colombian ex-minister
A dissident at the center of a standoff between Beijing and Washington accused Chinese authorities of a pattern of abuse against his family as he again took his case to US lawmakers. More »China dissident tells US of abuse of family
A dissident at the center of a standoff between Beijing and Washington on Tuesday accused Chinese authorities of a pattern of abuse against his family as he again took his case to US lawmakers. More »China dissident tells US of abuse of family
Five people were killed and 17 injured in Colombia's capital Tuesday when a bomb exploded in what President Juan Manuel Santos said was an assassination attempt against a former interior minister. More »Bogota bomb blast kills five, ex-minister targeted
Francois Hollande had quite a first day as French president: swearing in, Champs Elysees parade in torrential rain, then a lightning strike to his plane en route to meet the world's most powerful woman. More »Rain, lightning, red carpet: Francois Hollande's first day
A search team in Indonesia found Tuesday the black box of a Russian jet that could explain how a veteran pilot crashed the new plane into a dormant volcano last week, killing all 45 aboard. More »Indonesia team finds crashed Sukhoi's black box
Debt-stricken Greece must hold fresh elections after talks on forming a new government broke up without agreement Tuesday, prolonging a tortuous crisis which could see Athens exit the troubled eurozone. More »Greece faces repeat elections as coalition talks collapse
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed their desire to keep the eurozone together on Tuesday in key talks just hours after France's new leader was inaugurated. More »Merkel, Hollande press to keep eurozone together
Pakistan welcomed a NATO invitation Tuesday to attend key talks on the future of Afghanistan in Chicago next week but remained non-committal on ending a nearly six-month blockade on supply routes. More »NATO invites Pakistan to key summit
A convoy of UN truce observers came under bomb attack in a Syrian town on Tuesday during a funeral procession in which a monitoring group said regime forces "massacred" 20 people. More »UN convoy attacked in Syria