Greece's new finance minister was rushed to the hospital Friday hours after officials announced the debt-struck country's new prime minister was to undergo eye surgery for a detached retina.

The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain gathered in Rome on Friday to seek agreement on ways to pull Europe out of its crippling debt crisis.

The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan said a militant attack on a lakeside hotel in which 18 people were killed was likely carried out by fighters loyal to the Haqqani network.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has bought 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lana'i, according to a statement from the governor of Hawaii.

Two presidential contenders proclaim themselves winners in weekend election. An electoral committee member says the results will be delayed "a day or two." If Ahmed Shafik is "proclaimed a winner ... it's sheer forgery," a Muslim Brotherhood official says.

Yemen's defense ministry calls air strikes successful. A Red Cross worker died in an air strike in Abyan Wednesday morning.

The accused Toulouse gunman has "psychological troubles" and his motivation is not clear. The gunman claims to be linked to al Qaeda. President Hollande hails the police operation and safe release of hostages.

New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras was sworn in Wednesday as Greece's new prime minister, following months of political uncertainty for the debt-stricken country.

Egypt's Presidential Election Commission has delayed, from Thursday until a date to be announced, the release of the results of Egypt's presidential election, state-run Nile TV reported Wednesday

Iran's senior nuclear negotiator and representatives of international powers emerged Tuesday from two days of talks on Tehran's nuclear program without having reached an agreement.

Egyptian state-run Middle East News Agency, citing medical sources, says the ousted President died earlier today after stroke complcations. But Mubarak's attorney says, "He has suffered a stroke but he is not dead."

Aung San Suu Kyi finally put a face on Tuesday to the radio DJ whose show gave her a lifeline to the outside world during her years under house arrest in Myanmar, also known as Burma.

An opposition group says 31 died in violence Tuesday. Britain's foreign secretary says a Syria-bound ship seems to be heading back to Russia. "We're not going anywhere," the monitoring mission chief says.

Greece appeared Tuesday to be heading toward having its first elected government in 222 days as the leaders of three political parties signaled that talks among them were going well.

Conflicting reports emerged late Tuesday over whether the 84-year-old former president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, had died.

The annual Trafficking in Persons Report -- the world's most comprehensive resource of governmental anti-human trafficking efforts -- was published Tuesday by the U.S. State Department.

A popular female Pakistani singer who defied the Taliban's decree against singing and dancing was shot and killed in northwest Pakistan Monday night, police and hospital officials told CNN.

A man brings the severed head of his daughter to a police outpost in India. The divorced daughter had been killed for "indecent behavior," the woman's mother was too distraught to talk.

Aid workers searched for bodies Monday among charred vehicles and destroyed market stalls after a trio of church bombings sparked reprisal killings in northern Nigeria, officials said. The Nigerian Red Cross said the death toll had more than doubled, to 50 people.

Federal authorities have filed a civil complaint seeking the forfeiture of a stolen dinosaur skeleton and its return to Mongolia, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft successfully docked with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space laboratory on Monday, completing the next step in the country's ambitious space mission.

Three of the top four vote-getters are to meet in the presidential palace. Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras says he will not attend. Antonis Samaras, leader of center-right New Democracy, vows to put together a pro-euro coalition.

Ghazala Javed recorded scores of songs in her native Pashto language, and became a household name among young, progressive ethnic Pashtuns. She had just left a beauty salon and was headed home with her father when gunmen sprayed their car with bullets.

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U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the results of the Greek election as he prepared to join other world leaders at a summit aimed at boosting a sluggish global economic recovery.