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BERLIN (AP) -- Germany defended its pro-austerity stance on Tuesday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel and two ministers pressing for Europe to stick with a policy of fiscal discipline in spite of the latest bout of political uncertainty....

PARIS (AP) -- European laws on what girls and women wear on their heads are encouraging discrimination against Muslims and against a religion that has been part of Europe's fabric for centuries, Amnesty International says in a new report....

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's finance minister says he's confident a German-backed pact enforcing more fiscal discipline among European governments will be ratified despite new political uncertainty....

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has gone on hunger strike after prison guards allegedly beat her, her lawyer said Tuesday....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Al-Qaida militants staged a surprise attack Monday on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 22 soldiers and capturing 25 just hours after a U.S. drone strike killed a senior figure in the terror network wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen....

BEIJING (AP) -- China's leaders are finding it's a lot tougher to create a world-beating electric car industry than they hoped....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Sudan continued with its aerial bombardment of South Sudan on Tuesday, dropping eight bombs overnight, an official said, as South Sudan's president said the attacks amounted to a declaration of war by Sudan....

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Jordanian prosecutors say authorities have detained a journalist for publishing online statements alleging misconduct by royal officials....

LONDON (AP) -- James Murdoch defended his record at the head of his father's scandal-tarred British newspaper unit before a U.K. inquiry Tuesday, saying that subordinates prevented him from making a clean sweep at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid....

LONDON (AP) -- Drug maker Novartis is taking legal action in Britain to make state-run hospitals use an eye drug that costs about 700 pounds ($1,130) per shot instead of a cheaper one that costs 60 pounds ($97)....

LONDON (AP) -- Former News International chairman James Murdoch arrived Tuesday to give evidence under oath at Britain's media ethics inquiry....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to pursue his modernization agenda after shifting into the prime minister's job in a speech that summed up the results of his four-year presidency....

LONDON (AP) -- The number of measles deaths worldwide has apparently dropped by about three-quarters over a decade, according to a new study by the World Health Organization and others....

BEIJING (AP) -- A top Chinese leader under scrutiny amid China's biggest political scandal in years called for Communist Party unity in a prominent essay published Tuesday that shows his authority holding despite the investigation....

BEIJING (AP) -- The president of newly independent South Sudan is lobbying China for investment in his country's oil industry and diplomatic support in an escalating conflict with Sudan that's threatening to become an all-out war....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday dismissed as "disgraceful" an opposition claim that she was making light of sexual harassment by allowing the parliamentary speaker to hold his job while facing allegations that he pressured a staffer for sex....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Rebel fighters hacked off Jabati Mambu's right hand more than 13 years ago in Sierra Leone....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as "disgraceful" an opposition claim that she is making light of sexual harassment by allowing the parliamentary speaker to hold his job while facing allegations that he pressured a staffer for gay sex....

BEIJING (AP) -- The president of newly independent South Sudan is lobbying China for investment in his country's oil industry and diplomatic support in an escalating conflict with Sudan that's threatening to become an all-out war....

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese authorities have punished 20 officials and former village leaders after the community in southern China engaged in mass protests over land disputes that drove out local officials....