>DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) - A methane blast ripped through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine early Sunday, killing at least 63 miners in the ex-Soviet nation's worst mining accident in years, emergency officials...

.JERUSALEM (AP) - The United States is pressuring Israel to meet a long-standing obligation to freeze all West Bank settlement construction ahead of a high-profile Mideast conference, rejecting Israel's...

>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that OPEC's members have expressed interest in converting their cash reserves into a currency other than the depreciating...

.UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) - Scores of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see...

>ROME (AP) - Lawyers for two suspects jailed in connection with the slaying of a British student said Sunday they were hopeful their clients could be freed after investigators found a bloody fingerprint...

>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - MTV is hoping hip-hop and reality television tailored and sanitized for a more conservative Middle East will draw young Arabs away from dozens of locally produced...

>BERLIN (AP) - German police said they thwarted a plot by a pair of teens to attack their school in Cologne, after classmates saw them studying pictures of the Columbine school shooting and alerted...

;KULINA, Serbia (AP) - Serbia's prime minister on Thursday angrily rejected allegations by a U.S. human rights group that disabled people have been systematically abused in the Balkan country, calling...

>SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korea agreed Friday to launch cross-border rail service for the first time in more than half a century, the latest sign of improving relations between the...

.SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Puerto Rican police said Thursday that they will broaden their investigation into the alleged massacre of pets after a report by The Associated Press showed that possibly...