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OSLO, Norway (AP) -- You would have forgiven Norwegians for showing more outrage against confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country's prison terms "pathetic" and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country's prison terms "pathetic" and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II....

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Soldiers from Sudan and South Sudan clashed at a river dividing their two countries, leaving 22 dead as fighting spread to a new area of the tense border. A Sudanese official demanded on Wednesday that South Sudan withdraw from an oil-rich area it occupied last week or face a concerted attack....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In another embarrassment to the Pentagon, newly published photographs purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending....

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Security forces have fired stun grenades at anti-government protesters at a cultural exhibition for Bahrain's Formula One race....

LONDON (AP) -- Lawyers for a Libyan military commander said Wednesday they are taking civil legal action against Britain's former foreign secretary over claims he approved the Libyan's rendition to face imprisonment and torture by Moammar Gadhafi's regime....

MOSCOW (AP) -- ExxonMobil and Russian oil giant Rosneft could invest over $500 billion in a joint venture to explore for and produce oil in the Arctic and the Black Sea....

PARIS (AP) -- Radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada has appealed to Europe's human rights court against Britain's move to deport him to Jordan, a spokeswoman for the court said Wednesday....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Norway's prison terms are "pathetic," mass killer Anders Behring Breivik declared Wednesday in court, claiming the death penalty or a full acquittal were the "only logical outcomes" for his massacre of 77 people....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik vehemently defended his sanity Monday after a forensic panel found flaws in a psychiatric report that declared him sane in the eyes of the law....

BEIRUT (AP) -- The head of the U.N. observers in Syria said Friday a spike in bloodshed is derailing the mission to monitor and defuse more than a year of violence, raising questions about how effective the unarmed force can be in a conflict that every day looks more like a civil war....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's king issued a rare apology Wednesday, saying it was clearly "a mistake" to have gone on an African elephant-hunting trip during his country's severe economic crisis....

NANTERRE, France (AP) -- France's far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen says there's no shame in fighting so-called Islamization and insists it won't breed a mass killer like the Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC is considering $4 billion worth of onshore projects in Nigeria to help capture natural gas currently burning at oil wells that contribute to global warming and can sicken those living nearby, the company's CEO said Wednesday....

LONDON (AP) -- A committee of British lawmakers called Rupert Murdoch unfit to run his global media empire - a finding that reflects just how deeply the phone hacking scandal born of his defunct News of the World has shaken the relationship between the press and politics....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children are expected to be deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, after their scheduled departure the previous day was delayed for bureaucratic reasons, their lawyer said....

RUBKONA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudanese warplanes bombed a market and an oil field in South Sudan on Monday, killing at least two people after Sudanese ground forces had reportedly crossed into South Sudan with tanks and artillery, elevating the risk of all-out war between the two old enemies....