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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans are trying an unusual tactic to nullify new labor regulations that would speed up the time frame for unions to hold workplace elections....

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- The head of the U.S. Africa command has warned against the threats to stability in Africa from militant groups and proliferating weapons....

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....

MIAMI (AP) -- George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin, surrendered to police Sunday and was booked into a central Florida jail two days after his bond was revoked....

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....

HOUSTON (AP) -- A Houston woman has given birth to sextuplets....

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....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A federal prosecutor says a man wanted on charges he stole more than $2 million from an armored car he was paid to guard in Pittsburgh, murdering his partner in the process, has been arrested in Florida....

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)....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- First it was people earning at least $1 million a year. Now Democrats seeking their next election-year target for tax increases on better-off Americans may have found it: the owners of many privately held corporations....

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- The family of an Arizona girl who went missing from her bedroom over the weekend said they will never give up looking for the 6-year-old....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The two men were discovered dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a 12-story Manhattan building, as if dumped there, one man sprawled on top of the other....

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....