By FRANCES D'EMILIO 2010-09-05T17:04:34Z VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery....

By LUIS ANGEL SAS 2010-09-06T19:25:46Z GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Searchers on Monday pulled more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and people trying to save them. Yet more mudslides helped raise Guatemala's official death toll to 44 after days of torrential rains....

By RAVI NESSMAN 2010-09-05T16:42:10Z SHAH JAMAL, Pakistan (AP) -- Abid Hussein fears the deep floodwaters that destroyed his cotton crop, rotted his wheat seeds and swept away his farming tools are not done ravaging his life....

By KIMBERLY DOZIER 2010-09-05T03:52:15Z KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO commanders were overly optimistic when they predicted quick success taking the key Taliban-held town of Marjah last winter, the outgoing deputy commander said....

By 2010-09-05T00:15:55Z SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Police in El Salvador have found two buried oil drums stuffed with millions of dollars in cash possibly linked to the illegal drug trade, authorities said Saturday....

By PAUL HAVEN 2010-09-04T16:12:49Z HAVANA (AP) -- What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government?...

By JOHN HEANEY 2010-09-05T03:43:49Z DUBLIN (AP) -- Protesters hurled shoes and eggs Saturday at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland's capital. Hundreds more people lined up to have their books autographed - evidence that the divisions left by Blair's decade as British leader have yet to heal....

By JAMEY KEATEN 2010-09-04T16:14:38Z PARIS (AP) -- Thousands of people marched in Paris and around France on Saturday to protest expulsions of Gypsies and other new security measures adopted by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government....

By RAVI NESSMAN 2010-09-05T00:31:51Z DAIRA DINPANAH, Pakistan (AP) -- Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be....

By DEB RIECHMANN 2010-09-05T15:16:50Z KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's largest bank remained solvent Sunday after a nearly weeklong run on the troubled institution, according to the governor of the nation's central bank, which is being criticized for looking the other way at the bank's mismanagement problems for too long....

By SUZAN FRASER 2010-09-04T10:51:09Z ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- The United States' top military officer stressed on Saturday the need for Turkey to help enforce United Nations sanctions against Iran aimed at deterring the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear bomb....

By 2010-09-05T05:11:59Z WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Investigators expressed confidence Sunday that they will learn why an airplane carrying skydivers crashed in flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, killing four Europeans and five New Zealanders....

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 ROB GRIFFITH 2010-09-06T07:04:11Z CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand's prime minister warned Monday that the country's economic recovery will be hurt by the weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings and wrecked roads and rail lines in the city of Christchurch....

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 2010-09-06T05:19:46Z SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea's ruling communist party members gathered in Pyongyang ahead of their largest political conference in 30 years, state media reported Monday, amid predictions that leader Kim Jong Il would use the meeting to give a key ruling party position to one of his sons....

By EMANUEL CAMILLO 2010-09-06T18:49:54Z MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- Mozambicans found Monday they could not send text messages, after some used the technology to call for protests in this impoverished country over increases in food, water and electricity prices....

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....