With five priests chanting scriptures, a frog groom named Punarvasu and his amphibian bride Pushala were joined in holy Hindu matrimony by villagers hoping the ancient custom will bring monsoon rains to their drought-stricken district.

Witnesses say radical Islamists in northern Mali have briefly detained protesters and whipped them in an apparent attempt to intimidate the locals.

Cuba is reporting 158 cases of cholera, nearly three times as many as previously disclosed, But the island country says there are no new deaths and the outbreak appears to be contained and on the wane.

Emilia has weakened to a tropical storm in the Pacific while Tropical Storm Fabio is intensifying.

Tropical Storm Fabio is strengthening in the Pacific and could become a hurricane by Friday night or Saturday but is expected to stay well offshore of Mexico.

No one likes a rainy weather forecast, but a seaside town in Belgium is so unhappy with its summer forecast that it's suing.

Hurricane Emilia and Tropical Storm Daniel are weakening over the open Pacific and remaining far from land.

In the Pacific Ocean, Hurricane Emilia continues to gain strength. However, the storm continues to head away from land.

Wikipedia has shut down its Russian-language site for 24 hours to protest a law that would give the government sweeping powers to blacklist certain sites.

Emilia has strengthened to a Category Three hurricane in the Pacific far off the coast of Mexico but is still not posing a threat to land.

Emilia has strengthened to a hurricane in the Pacific south of Mexico, but is not posing a threat to land.

Russia's Emergency Situations Minister says authorities have failed to properly warn residents in the Black Sea region of upcoming floods that killed at least 171 people.

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Emilia could soon become a hurricane, but the storm is not expected to threaten land.

An explosion kills six service members in Afghanistan.

Thousands of hardline Islamists stream to Pakistan's capital to protest NATO supply line.

Egypt's top generals are holding an emergency meeting to discuss the Islamist-dominated parliament.

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A panda has been born at a Tokyo zoo for the first time in 24 years.

British police say they have arrested five men and one woman on suspicion of terrorism.

The fourth Tropical Depression of the 2012 Pacific season has formed.

The European Parliament is scheduled to hold a critical vote on the ACTA anti-piracy treaty -- a pact that has sparked street protests and a petition drive from people in Europe who fear it would limit internet freedom.

One of the two independent teams at the world's biggest atom smasher says it has found strong evidence of a new subatomic particle that looks like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape.

The top diplomats of France and Germany say Syrian President Bashar Assad should leave power, even though a U.N.-brokered political transition plan leaves his future role open.