Mar 9, 2010 — OKCULAR, Turkey - Turkey's leaders pledged Tuesday to build quake-proof homes after a magnitude 6 temblor shattered mud-brick homes in the eastern part of the country, killing 51 people.

Mar 8, 2010 — JERUSALEM -- Israel and the Palestinians agreed Monday to resume indirect peace negotiations mediated by the United States, said President Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell.

Mar 8, 2010 — Photo: AP World leaders and international organizations are calling for more rights and opportunities for women in order to help solve many of the world's problems.

Mar 8, 2010 — The international police organization, Interpol, has issued wanted notices for 16 more suspects in connection with the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai.

Mar 8, 2010 — Photo: AP In India, efforts to pass a controversial bill reserving one-third of seats in parliament for women have been postponed, following an uproar by some lawmakers.

Mar 8, 2010 — Myanmar's Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, Senior General Than Shwe, wipes his head as an aide fans him in the museum attached to the Buddhist Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, in Kandy, November 13, 2009 file photo.

Mar 8, 2010 — It takes a cynical mind not to share in the achievement of Iraq's national elections. Bombs and missiles, al Qaeda threats and war fatigue failed to deter millions of Iraqis of all sects and regions from exercising a right that is rare in the Arab ...

Mar 8, 2010 — French President Nicolas Sarkozy is urging the world community to embrace nuclear energy as an indispensable tool in the fight against global warming.

Mar 8, 2010 — PORT-AU-PRINCE - Canada's governor general, Haitian-born Michaelle Jean, said Monday during a visit to her quake-shattered birth country that the "destruction is unbelievable.

Mar 8, 2010 — Missiles fired by a US drone aircraft have killed at least three suspected militants in north-west Pakistan, security officials say.

Mar 8, 2010 — Germany's justice minister has criticised the Vatican for what she called a "wall of silence" over recently-emerged abuse allegations.

Mar 8, 2010 — KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates got a closer view of the Afghanistan war Tuesday, with a visit to troops fighting the Taliban in the country's rugged south.

Mar 7, 2010 — These elections will certainly be seen as a big success - despite the depressing level of violence, which demonstrates that it is still altogether untrue to suggest that Iraq is now a country at peace.

Mar 7, 2010 — China's foreign minister says Beijing and the United States should move past recent disputes and work together to get relations back on track.

Mar 7, 2010 — ROME - The brother of Pope Benedict XVI has told a newspaper he is willing to testify in the sex scandal rocking Germany's Catholic Church, even though he says he knows nothing about the alleged abuse of boys in a choir he later led.