Posted: 6:07 PM Eight people were killed in eastern Afghanistan by rockets fired from Pakistan, an official from the Afghan province of Kunar told CNN on Sunday.

Posted: 6:01 PM The Syrian regime acknowledged for the first time Monday that it possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and said it will only use them in case of a foreign attack and never internally against its own citizens.

Posted: 5:52 PM A Japanese government report Monday heaped fresh criticism on the operator of the nuclear power plant where a disastrous accident was set off last year by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the country.

Posted: 5:15 PM The "heaviest rain in six decades" in the Chinese capital of Beijing has left at least 37 people dead, the state news agency Xinhua reported Sunday.

Posted: 5:14 PM The Syrian Foreign Ministry said Monday the country has chemical or biological weapons, but would never use them against its citizens -- only against foreign attackers.

Updated: 12:51 PM After police found 49 dismembered bodies strewn on a Mexican highway leading to the Texas border, it took the army just a week to parade an alleged drug trafficker before journalists as the man who purportedly oversaw the body dump.

Posted: 9:45 AM Bombings and shootings ripped across Iraq on Monday, killing at least 103 people in the deadliest day this year. The coordinated attacks in 13 cities sent a chilling warning that al Qaeda is slowly resurging in the security vacuum created by a weak government in Baghdad and the departure of the U.S. military seven months ago.

Posted: 8:20 PM Bombs struck two Sunni towns at sundown Sunday just as Iraqis were preparing to break their holy day's fast, killing 18 and wounding more than 50, officials said. Two earlier bomb blasts killed a policeman and wounded dozens of people.

Posted: 8:14 PM Olympic judo competitor Hemeed Al Drie plans to sin during the Games in London, he admits with a grin.

Posted: 11:28 AM Efforts are under way to retrieve a pilot after a U.S. fighter jet crashed into the waters off northern Japan on Sunday, military officials said.

Posted: 11:24 AM Syrian rebels have launched an operation to "liberate" the country's largest city of Aleppo from regime forces, an opposition commander said Sunday, while in the capital Damascus government troops backed by helicopter gunships wrested back control of rebel-held neighborhoods.

Posted: 11:23 AM Bradley Wiggins has become the first Briton to win the Tour de France, after safely protecting the yellow jersey during Sunday's final processional ride into Paris.

Posted: 11:22 AM The kidnapped president of the Libyan Olympic Committee was freed Sunday, a week after he was seized, the country's state news agency reported.

Posted: 11:18 AM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week's bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists was certainly committed by the terrorist organization Hezbollah with the support of Iran.

Posted: 9:35 AM Russian singer Evgeny Nikitin has pulled out of one of the world's best-known opera events, the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, because he has a Nazi tattoo, organizers said Sunday.

Posted: 11:12 AM Muslims have begun fasting for the start of the Ramadan holy month in Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere around Asia, but the somber occasion was marred in Buddhist-dominated Thailand by two bomb blasts that killed one person and injured seven.

Posted: 11:11 AM A strong earthquake has struck off the east coast of New Zealand, but there were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage.

Posted: 9:42 AM A bus heading to a beach in western Mexico went off a cliff early Friday, killing at least 24 people, authorities said.

Posted: 9:41 AM After years of preparation and months of buildup, London's Olympic moment finally arrived Friday night.

Posted: 9:27 AM Activists and opposition groups say Syrian troops and rebels have clashed for a second day in the northern city of Aleppo.

Posted: 10:48 PM Many Amazon shoppers are not thrilled at the prospect of paying sales tax on their online purchases.

Posted: 10:46 PM Europe's economic weakness will hit home for U.S. automakers as they report quarterly results in the next few weeks.

Posted: 10:43 PM With $43 billion of cash in its coffers, Google can afford to spend millions on companies just to mine them for talent.

Posted: 9:59 PM A bus heading to a beach in western Mexico went off a cliff early Friday, killing at least 24 people, authorities said. (AP Graphics)

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