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BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese police rescued more than 24,000 abducted women and children across the country last year, the country's Public Security Ministry said Sunday....

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese police rescued more than 24,000 abducted women and children across the country last year, the country's Public Security Ministry said Sunday....

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) -- Preliminary results show a leftist opposition party in Slovakia is heading for a landslide victory in an early parliamentary election....

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan on Sunday was remembering the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation one year ago, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian forces used live fire, tear gas and clubs to beat back tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets across the country Friday in powerful and often jubilant displays of defiance. But a U.N.-brokered truce largely held up without the widespread, bloody offensives that have pushed the nation toward civil war....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel pounded Gaza for the second day in a row Saturday, trading airstrikes and rocket fire with Palestinian militants and killing 15 of them as the deadliest Gaza violence in over a year showed no signs of abating....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Thousands of supporters of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez held demonstrations across the country Saturday to show support for their leader while he recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Thousands of supporters of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez held demonstrations across the country Saturday to show support for their leader while he recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Thousands of supporters of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez held demonstrations across the country Saturday to show support for their leader while he recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba....

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Denmark's prime minister urged Bahrain to release a jailed activist with dual citizenship on Tuesday, saying he's in "very critical" condition after a two-month hunger strike, but the Gulf kingdom denies that his health is failing....

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Police in Bahrain fired tear gas Saturday at protesters following the funeral for a 22-year-old man whose family claims he was fatally injured during clashes earlier this month in the Gulf kingdom....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A grenade attack at one of the main bus stations in Kenya's capital killed at least four people and wounded 40 others Saturday, officials said, in the latest bloodshed blamed on sympathizers of Somalia's al-Qaida-linked insurgency....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A grenade attack at one of the main bus stations in Kenya's capital killed at least four people and wounded 40 others Saturday, officials said, in the latest bloodshed blamed on sympathizers of Somalia's al-Qaida-linked insurgency....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A grenade attack at one of the main bus stations in Kenya's capital killed at least four people and wounded 40 others Saturday, officials said, in the latest bloodshed blamed on sympathizers of Somalia's al-Qaida-linked insurgency....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A grenade attack at one of the main bus stations in Kenya's capital killed at least four people and wounded 40 others Saturday, officials said, in the latest bloodshed blamed on sympathizers of Somalia's al-Qaida-linked insurgency....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni military officials said Saturday that two U.S. airstrikes killed at least 18 al-Qaida-linked militants in an evening attack on a central province that had been partly overrun by the group earlier this year....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- The Yemeni Defense Ministry said military troops and armed civilians killed 28 al-Qaida-linked militants in battles on Friday in the southern part of the country....

RAWANAK, Afghanistan (AP) -- The only warning was the strong wind that howled through the village of Daspai....

RAWANAK, Afghanistan (AP) -- The only warning was the strong wind that howled through the village of Daspai....

RAWANAK, Afghanistan (AP) -- The only warning was the strong wind that howled through the village of Daspai....