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Cardinal Franciszek Macharski, a popular Polish prelate who served for many years as archbishop of Krakow, inheriting a position opened by the election of Pope John Paul II, has died.

A Pakistani official says a charity belonging to a banned terror group has dispatched an aid convoy for Muslims in Indian-held Kashmir.

A specialized court in Bulgaria has opened the trial of three Syrian nationals charged with terrorism offenses.

Japan's Cabinet has approved a fresh economic stimulus package worth more than 28 trillion yen ($275 billion) to help revive the country's stalling growth.

He has seen the body, and authorities say the fingerprints match.

Britain's former ambassador to France is set to take up the European Union's security portfolio.

Scientists say that one of the last surviving populations of woolly mammoths was likely driven to extinction by lack of drinking water.

Honda Motor Co. is reporting a better-than-expected 174.6 billion yen profit ($1.7 billion) for the fiscal first quarter as it gradually recovers from damage caused by a quake in southwestern Japan.

Indian officials say the death toll in heavy monsoon rains has climbed past 90, with over 700,000 taking shelter in government-run relief camps.

On a recent sunny morning in northern Afghanistan, excited children and bemused policemen lined the banks of a fast-flowing river to watch a group of Europeans in multicolored kayaks navigate the white water.

Japan called North Korea's nuclear and missile development a "grave and imminent threat" to the region and international security, and criticized China's increasingly assertive military action as dangerous in an annual defense report approved Tuesday by the Cabinet.

When Bilqis talks about having circumcised her daughter, she goes back and forth on how she feels — sometimes within the same sentence.

China's navy has fired dozens of missiles and torpedoes during exercises in the EastChina Sea that come amid heightened maritime tensions in the region, underscoring Beijing's determination to back up its sovereignty claims with force if needed.

Typhoon Nida was moving northwest across southern China on Tuesday, bringing high winds and heavy rain but no immediate reports of deaths or destruction.

It was a national scandal.

The New Zealand government on Tuesday agreed to pay more than half a million dollars to a man who spent 12 years in jail after he was convicted of killing five members of his own family but was later found not guilty at a retrial.

South Korea has fined Volkswagen 17.8 billion won ($16 million) and suspended sales of 80 VW models, alleging the German carmaker fabricated documents on emissions or noise level tests.

Typhoon Nida is moving northwest across southern China, bringing high winds and heavy rain but no immediate reports of deaths or destruction.

China's navy has fired dozens of missiles and torpedoes during exercises in the East China Sea that come amid heightened maritime tensions in the region.

A court in northern China is trying the first of four human rights advocates charged with subversion of state power after being arrested last year in a sweeping crackdown.