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A submarine scouring the Indian Ocean on Sunday picked up the signal beacons of the two black boxes of a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed off the Comoros Islands, the French aviation agency said.

Honduras braced for confrontation Sunday as ousted President Manuel Zelaya insisted on coming home to reclaim his post, urging his supporters to mass at the airport for a showdown with the interim government in power since the army sent him into exile a week ago.

A roadside bomb and a rocket-propelled grenade in southern Afghanistan killed two British soldiers, while gunmen in the east abducted 16 mine-clearing personnel working for the United Nations, officials said Sunday.

In this photo distributed by the Xinhua news agency, local residents transfer to safe places on a handmade raft in the flood in Liuzhou, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Saturday July 4, 2009.

Jul. 4 - Politicians and clerics march in New Delhi in protest over a court's ruling that legalises same-sex relations.

The soldier who was photographed fighting the Taliban in his boxer shorts says he's glad to be back home in Texas after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan - especially on the Fourth of July.

An Israeli defense official says Defense Minister Ehud Barak is to hold a second round of talks with U.S. special Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell next week in an effort to resolve differences between the two sides on Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Questions are being asked about whether escape routes and fire prevention measures were "adequate" at a block of flats where a fire left six people dead, Harriet Harman said.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is "deeply disappointed" after the Burma junta rejected his second and final request to meet jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

NORTH Korea has test-fired two more missiles, South Korea's defence ministry says, further stoking tensions sparked by its nuclear standoff with the international community.

Honduras' interim leader said he was open to early elections if it resolves an impasse with the world community, as a top diplomat headed to the Central American nation to demand he restore the president ousted by a coup.

Several hundred South Africans gathered on Friday for a moonwalking tribute to the King of Pop that reflected the diversity of the rainbow nation.

North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast in a possible prelude to the launch of a long-range missile toward Hawaii over the U.S. Independence Day holiday.

The Associated Press 2 comments 4,000 U.S. marines clear the Taliban from remote areas ahead of elections.

Heilprin, John - YANGON, Myanmar - The U.N. secretary-general said he would lobby Myanmar's junta chief directly Friday for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, acknowledging that his high-profile mission will be "very difficult." Shortly after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Myanmar, the court presiding over Suu ...

THE most senior British officer killed by the Taliban was named yesterday as the commanding officer of the Welsh Guards.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Thursday to visit U.S. soldiers, just two days after all American combat troops withdrew from Baghdad and all of Iraq's cities and towns.

An American soldier, who disappeared after walking off his base in eastern Afghanistan with three Afghan counterparts, is believed captured, officials said Thursday.

A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle slammed into a bus carrying defense department employees on Thursday, killing at least six people, police said.

A court in India has made a groundbreaking ruling to decriminalize consensual gay sex in the capital of the deeply conservative society.