Vice President Joe Biden is celebrating the Fourth of July with his son and other American troops in Iraq.

A top aide of Iran's supreme leader has called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him of committing crimes against the nation.

Pope Benedict XVI has urged G-8 leaders meeting next week in central Italy to rewrite global financial rules and defend the world's poor from the effects of the economic downturn.

South Korea says North Korea has fired a seventh missile off its eastern coast.

The country's Supreme Court has rejected an ultimatum to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power.

African leaders have approved a contentious decision to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir.

U.S. Marines are moving into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan today, and they're meeting little resistance.

The U.N. secretary-general says Myanmar's junta chief has rejected his initial request to see the jailed opposition leader.

There are conflicting reports about the number of people killed in today's U.S. air strikes near the Afghan border.

Protesters have been trying to block an entrance to Paris' main airport as they accuse a Yemeni airline of ignoring complaints about dangerous flight conditions.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the U.S. president is wrong to suggest he remains mired in a Cold War mindset.

The son of accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk is blaming the pursuit of his elderly father's case on a "career-seeking" German prosecutor.

Pope Benedict XVI has placed Cardinal John Henry Newman on the path to possible sainthood by approving a miracle attributed to the 19th century Anglican convert's intercession.

A top Iranian cleric says some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial.

Nigeria's state oil company says that Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to create a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline to ship gas to Europe.