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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is ducking questions about a video that purportedly shows him smoking crack despite calls by allies and rivals for further comment.
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- Thousands of women protest death in Togo
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Thousands of women have taken to the streets in Togo to protest the death of an opposition figure who had been jailed.
- Pope expresses solidarity with tornado survivors
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Pope Francis has expressed his `'closeness to the families of all who died in the Oklahoma tornado," with special concern for `'those who lost young children."
- China vice-premier arrives in Zimbabwe
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Chinese vice-premier Wang Yang has arrived in Zimbabwe at the start of an official trip to view his nation's burgeoning trade and development ties in Africa.
- New Egypt tax law: cuts for poor, business hikes
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Egypt's president has signed a new tax law that cuts the amount paid by poorer Egyptians while increasing taxes on small and medium-sized businesses.
- Court frees man in murder that shocked SAfricans
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A magistrate drops charges against the boyfriend accused in the brutal gang-rape and killing of a teenager that shocked South Africans.
- Rebels in C. African Republic protest conditions
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Some members of the rebel alliance who overthrew the president of Central African Republic are protesting outside the luxury hotel where their leader is based.
- Kyrgyzstan bent on evicting US air base in 2014
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Kyrgyzstan's president has reaffirmed that next year the Central Asian nation will evict the U.S. air base that supports military operations in nearby Afghanistan.
- Experts: Japan nuke plant needs more fault data
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Experts commissioned by the operator of a Japanese nuclear plant that faces possible closure because of a suspected active seismic fault say a decision should wait, citing insufficient data.
- Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93
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Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, a 1943 revolt by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi German force that occupied Poland during World War II, has died. He was 93.
- Suicide at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
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Crowds of visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head, the cathedral's rector said.
- 5 Serbs released from Libya after 21 months
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Officials say five Serbian citizens have returned home after spending 21 months in captivity in Libya.
- 2 donkeys suspected in mauling death in Hungary
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Hungarian police say they are investigating an incident in which an elderly man may have been mauled to death by two donkeys.
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- Female Saudi Everest climber happy to change views
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The first woman from Saudi Arabia to scale Mount Everest says she doesn't intend to inspire a movement, but would be happy to change people's opinions of Saudi women and Saudi women's opinions of themselves.
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