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An electoral official says Somalia has decided to delay its presidential election for a fourth time amid allegations of fraud and intimidation.

It was filthy, cramped and in major disarray, but when art historian Eva Lindqvist Sandgren entered the library in Altomuenster Abbey, off-limits to all but the German monastery's nuns for more than five centuries, she immediately knew she was looking at a major treasure.

The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 1 p.m.

An Afghan official says that at least one police officer has been killed after a car bomb exploded near the convoy of the deputy provincial police chief of southern Helmand province.

Qatar-based satellite news broadcaster Al-Jazeera says Egypt is holding one of its producers on "fabricated charges" after the man traveled there to visit his family on vacation.

"I don't want to go back," James Issac declared, just minutes after becoming a refugee.

Russia's transport minister says a pilot error or a technical fault is likely to be the cause of Sunday's plane crash over the Black Sea.

A powerful typhoon that spoiled Christmas Day in parts of the Philippines, leaving at least four people dead and destroying homes, roared over a congested region near Manila on Monday with slightly weaker but still-fierce winds, officials said.

The Latest on the crash of a Russian aircraft with 92 people on board en route to Russia's air base in Syria (all times local): 9 a.m.

Kim Jong Un is the Grinch who stole Christmas.

A powerful earthquake shook southern Chile on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of deaths and only minor known damage.

Rescue workers have found the fuselage of a Russian jet that plunged into the Black Sea on Christmas, the country's emergency ministry announced Monday, as a top transportation official said pilot error or a technical fault is likely to be the cause of the crash.

China and Sao Tome and Principe have officially resumed diplomatic relations after the African island nation abruptly broke away from Beijing's rival, Taiwan.

Syrian President Bashar Assad has visited a Christian orphanage near the capital Damascus on Christmas Day.

A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves: ___ EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a weekly look at the latest developments in the South China Sea, home to several territorial conflicts that have raised tensions in the region.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will visit Pearl Harbor with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, wasn't even born when Japan's former leader Shigeru Yoshida went there just six years after the country's World War II surrender, by himself and feeling awkward.

Explosives experts on Sunday defused a large World War II aerial bomb in the southern German city of Augsburg — clearing the way for thousands of evacuated residents to return to their Christmas celebrations at home.

Kim Jong Un is the Grinch who stole Christmas.

A bad cold kept Queen Elizabeth II from attending the traditional Christmas morning church service near her Sandringham estate in rural Norfolk, England, raising some concerns about her health.

Authorities in the western Mexico state of Michoacan say six decapitated heads have been found on Christmas Day.