VIENNA — The Netherlands' royal information service says Prince Johan Friso remains in stable but life-threatening condition five days after he was buried by an avalanche in the Austrian Alps.

The 43-year-old was rushed to the intensive care unit of Innsbruck's main hospital...

 ROME — Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia have found what appears to be four more bodies on the cruise ship.

The civil protection agency, which is monitoring the operation, said the bodies were found Wednesday but it will take some time before they are recovered.
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 BEIRUT — A French photojournalist and an American working for a British newspaper were killed Wednesday by Syrian government shelling of the opposition stronghold of Homs, France's government said.

Activists said at least two other Western journalists were injured in barrages...

 WELLINGTON, — As families of the 185 people killed in the Christchurch earthquake marked the one-year anniversary of the disaster Wednesday, signs of a city still broken were all around them.

Hundreds of wrecked buildings downtown are still waiting to be torn down so...

 NEW DELHI— About 15,000 people die every year trying to cross the tracks of India's mammoth rail network, a "massacre" that a government committee said was being ignored by railway authorities.

The safety panel said new bridges and overpasses were urgently needed, but it noted...

 JALO,— A Red Crescent worker says more than 50 civilians were killed in the past 24 hours in tribal warfare in southern Libya.

Moussa Bazama, an ambulance worker, says Tuesday that rockets, mortars and gunfire rocked residential areas in the desert town of Kufra, leaving scores...

 VALLETTA — Two Libyan air force pilots are due to fly their Mirage fighter planes back to Libya exactly a year after they defected to Malta rather than follow orders to bomb civilians.

The officers are expected to fly home Tuesday after a ceremony at Malta airport, but their...

 PARIS — Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was being held for questioning Tuesday by French police investigating a suspected hotel prostitution ring.

Strauss-Kahn, a one-time French presidential hopeful whose chances were derailed by a sexual...

 ADEN/SANAA, - Yemen ushered Ali Abdullah Saleh from power after 33 years on Tuesday, voting to endorse his deputy as president, with a mission to rescue the nation from poverty, chaos and the brink of civil war.

Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the sole, consensus...

 BEIRUT — Government troops heavily shelled rebellious districts in the resistance stronghold of Homs Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and compounding fears of a new round of bloody urban combat in a country careening toward all-out civil war.

Activists said the intense...