Updated: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeting police killed at least 10 people in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, including the son and nephew of an Afghan official involved in peace negotiations with the Taliban, authorities said. The bomber was riding a motorcycle and detonated his...

Updated: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition forces have targeted government officials, army and police officers and civil servants in their campaign to topple President Bashar Assad's regime. Here is a list of some of the major assassination attempts in Syria since the uprising against Assad began in...

Updated: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The traffic is there, grinding life to a halt as the middle class pound out messages on BlackBerry mobile phones and worry about Facebook. The heat, the sweat and the daily tragedy of unclaimed bodies lying alongside roadways, passers-by hurrying past for fear of someone...

CARRIE ANTLFINGER COLLEEN SLEVIN

Published: Wed, Feb 27, 2013

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A Midwest snowstorm packing heavy snow and strong winds left six people dead in Kansas, hundreds of vehicles crashed or stranded in Wisconsin, and tens of thousands of utility customers without power in Michigan. "It's the heaviest snow we've received all winter long, as far...

JEAN H. LEE

Published: Wed, Feb 27, 2013

"Hello world from comms center in (hash)Pyongyang." That Twitter missive, sent Monday from Koryolink's main service center in downtown Pyongyang using my iPhone, marked a milestone for North Korea: It was believed to be the first tweet sent from a cellphone using the country's new 3G mobile...

Published: Sat, Feb 23, 2013

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea warned the top American commander in South Korea on Saturday of "miserable destruction" if the U.S. military presses ahead with routine joint drills with South Korea set to begin next month. Pak Rim Su, chief of North Korea's military delegation to...