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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A nuclear deal with the United States may have raised hopes that tensions on the Korean peninsula could ease soon, but rare interviews Friday by The Associated Press with Pyongyang residents suggest deep cynicism of U.S. intentions....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy says his country is closing its embassy in Syria....

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- The International Organization for Migration says a 60-car train carrying 1,400 refugees has left Sudan's capital for the newly independent south. The passengers are the first of hundreds of thousands expected to make the arduous journey in the months ahead....

LONDON (AP) -- It was a gift horse to British cartoonists....

OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader urged Iranians to vote in large numbers as the country held parliamentary elections Friday, saying a high turnout would send a strong message to the enemies of the nation amid the nuclear standoff with the West....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's state comptroller has questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over allegations of taking lavish, privately paid trips abroad while serving in public office....

TATOPANI, Nepal (AP) -- Before Apa became a legendary Sherpa mountaineer, he was a humble Himalayan potato farmer who worked his fields in the Everest foothills until without warning, raging floodwaters swallowed his farm....

SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard pulled a veteran politician out of retirement and named him foreign minister Friday in place of Kevin Rudd who tried to oust her during a chaotic, short-lived rebellion in the ruling Labor Party....

SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard pulled a veteran politician out of retirement and named him foreign minister Friday in place of Kevin Rudd who tried to oust her during a chaotic, short-lived rebellion in the ruling Labor Party....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The leaders of 25 European states on Friday signed a new treaty designed to prevent the 17 euro countries from living beyond their means and prevent a repeat of the currency union's crippling debt crisis....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A nuclear deal with the United States may have raised hopes that tensions on the Korean peninsula could ease, but interviews with North Koreans show they are skeptical of U.S. intentions....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Vladimir Putin's spokesman is defending Russian's authorities' arrest of hundreds of demonstrators protesting the election that is returning Putin to the Kremlin....

BEIRUT (AP) -- A French reporter wounded in a rocket attack last week in Syria that killed two other journalists is receiving treatment in Beirut hospital and is expected to fly home later Friday, a senior Lebanese security official said....

OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader urged Iranians to vote in large numbers as the country held parliamentary elections Friday, saying a high turnout would send a strong message to the enemies of the nation amid the nuclear standoff with the West....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has strongly criticized the West for backing the Syrian opposition against the government, saying it has fueled the conflict....