International News

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says new sanctions are needed against Iran to pressure the country into settling the dispute over its nuclear program.

A letter purportedly from one of Osama bin Laden's sons is calling on Iran's supreme leader to release members of his family believed to be under house arrest there since they fled Afghanistan in 2001.

A 38-year-old woman acknowledged Monday killing six of her newborns, whose corpses were found in plastic bags in her basement, at the opening of a chilling trial in northwest France.

A suicide car bomber killed four people and wounded 29 others when his vehicle exploded in a busy street Monday during the morning rush hour in western Iraq.

Italian police say they have arrested 19 suspected mobsters in raids in Sicily, including the brother of Mafia's reputed No.1 boss and some of his closest aides.

David Beckham has arrived in Finland for surgery on his torn left Achilles' tendon, an injury that will keep him from the World Cup.

A top official with the United Nations wildlife agency says the world has "failed miserably" in protecting tigers in the wild.

A top Vatican official says Pope Benedict XVI will speak with a "clear and decisive voice" when he addresses clerical sex abuses in Ireland in a forthcoming letter.

Israeli media say the U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project.

Egypt's Constitutional Court backed the right of women judges to sit on the bench in the state's administrative courts, despite opposition from conservatives, state media reported Monday.