By 2010-09-04T03:37:11Z WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Nine people are believed to have died when a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed on New Zealand's South Island on Saturday....

By 2010-09-04T03:35:49Z SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A news report says South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan has offered to resign over his ministry's controversial hiring of his daughter....

By RAY LILLEY 2010-09-04T03:11:52Z WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake damaged buildings, cut power and knocked fleeing residents off their feet on New Zealand's South Island early Saturday, but there were so far no deaths and only two injuries reported....

By BRIAN MURPHY 2010-09-03T21:08:28Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said....

By HYUNG-JIN KIM 2010-09-03T15:58:47Z SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea is preparing its largest political meeting in 30 years, and leader Kim Jong Il is expected to appoint a son to a key Workers Party position in what would be the strongest sign yet of a succession movement in the secretive communist country....

By EMANUEL CAMILLO 2010-09-03T19:23:52Z MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- Mozambique's economy has lost more than $3 million because of deadly riots over the rising prices of food and other goods, the government said Friday, as state media reported new protests in two other towns....

By BRIAN MURPHY and NASSER KARIMI 2010-09-03T19:43:23Z TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Pro-government crowds swarmed outside the battered home of a key Iranian opposition leader Friday after militiamen attacked with firebombs and beat a bodyguard unconscious in a brazen message of intimidation and pinpoint pressure on dissent....

By ROBERT WIELAARD 2010-09-03T15:06:37Z BRUSSELS (AP) -- The EU's trade chief apologized Friday for blaming Jews and the "Jewish lobby" in Washington for blocking Mideast peace as the embarrassed EU head office quickly distanced itself from his comments....

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER 2010-09-03T13:53:38Z LONDON (AP) -- Britain's former deputy prime minister pressed Friday for police to reveal more about what is alleged to have been a pattern of illegal eavesdropping at a major tabloid newspaper....

By BARRY HATTON 2010-09-03T19:05:06Z LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Seven people were convicted of child sex abuse in Portugal on Friday in a major trial that lasted nearly six years and shocked the country....

By 2010-09-03T12:59:44Z LONDON (AP) -- A Turkish Cypriot businessman who voluntarily returned to Britain after 17 years to face fraud charges learned Friday that he will have to wait more than a year for the trial he insists will vindicate him....

By TOM MALITI 2010-09-03T12:38:51Z NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya on Friday allowed the International Criminal Court to open an office in the country, a development that comes after Kenya's commitment to the court came into question when the nation hosted Sudan's indicted leader last week....

By OLGA TUTUBALINA 2010-09-03T12:23:00Z DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) -- A suicide car bomb blast tore through police offices in Tajikistan's second-largest city Friday, killing one policeman and injuring 25 people, local officials said....

By ALEXANDRA OLSON 2010-09-03T02:25:08Z MEXICO CITY (AP) -- President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under his watch, but arguing that it is the price of confronting powerful and brutal cartels....

By SANGWON YOON 2010-09-03T02:02:52Z SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The death toll from Typhoon Kompasu, which battered the Korean peninsula with strong winds and heavy rains, rose to five in South Korea, an official said Friday....

By MARK WALSH 2010-09-03T01:56:39Z MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug cartel members in northeastern Mexico left 25 purported gunmen dead Thursday, the military said....

By YURI KAGEYAMA 2010-09-03T01:52:18Z TOKYO (AP) -- Dolphins have been herded into a cove as part of an annual hunt in the Japanese seaside town made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about their slaughter, Sea Shepherd said Friday. A town official said none were killed....

By IBRAHIM BARZAK AND JOSEF FEDERMAN 2010-09-02T20:06:54Z GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas - the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations....

By DONNA BRYSON 2010-09-02T22:21:33Z JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A few pennies' increase in the price of a loaf of bread can mean the difference between getting by and going hungry - and erupting in anger - in the world's poorest countries....

By ARIEL DAVID 2010-09-02T18:14:35Z JERUSALEM (AP) -- A new book claims renowned Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal worked for Israel's Mossad spy agency, providing information on war criminals and Germans working in Arab countries....