Posted: 6:46 PM Thousands of hardline Islamists stream to Pakistan's capital to protest NATO supply line.

Posted: 6:43 PM Egypt's top generals are holding an emergency meeting to discuss the Islamist-dominated parliament.

Posted: 3:59 AM Pentagon cheers defection of Syrian general...Clinton warns that Syrian state risks collapse...Clinton looks for better US-Pakistani cooperation ...Clinton hails Libyan election, pledges US support... Egypt's president's first foreign visit to be Saudi Arabia...Seoul central bank: NKorean economy grew last year...Greek opposition leader says government won't last...Running of the Bulls in Spain...

Posted: 3:51 AM their AC-47D aircraft went down Dec. 24, 1965, after sending a mayday signal...more than 300 American personnel are missing from Laos, where the U.S. bombarded supply lines of communist guerrillas fighting U.S. forces in neighboring Vietnam.

Updated: 3:45 AM US troops score win against IEDs in Afghanistan...Roadside bombs kill 14 in southern Afghanistan...US concerned by rise in Afghan insider attacks...Karzai urges other countries not to abandon Afghanistan

Posted: 3:45 AM A panda has been born at a Tokyo zoo for the first time in 24 years.

Updated: 3:23 AM British police say they have arrested five men and one woman on suspicion of terrorism.

Updated: 3:44 AM The fourth Tropical Depression of the 2012 Pacific season has formed.

Posted: 3:01 AM 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.

Posted: 2:50 AM 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.

Posted: 10:24 AM 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.

Posted: 10:22 AM Iran's president says the new EU embargo on Iranian oil is "the strongest" yet imposed on the country.

Posted: 10:20 AM An official says French investigators have searched the home and offices of former President Nicolas Sarkoz.

Updated: 1:33 AM Iran's official news agency official IRNA reports that the country's powerful Revolutionary Guards unit has launched several missiles in a military exercise.

Posted: 11:58 PM A tanker truck filled with gasoline has collided with a truck in southern China, setting off an explosion and a massive fire that left 20 people dead and 14 others hurt.

Posted: 11:55 PM A Chinese space capsule with three astronauts aboard has returned from a mission to an orbiting module.

Updated: 3:13 AM Turkey's state television says the country is deploying anti-aircraft weapons along the Syrian border, days after a Turkish military jet was shot down by Syrian forces.

Posted: 12:10 AM The United States says it won't be able to carry out a climate study this year because Thailand has postponed granting NASA permission to use a key naval air base.

Posted: 3:57 AM Police say the offices of Microsoft in Athens have been attacked, with assailants reversing a van through the front entrance and detonating an incendiary device that sparked a fire.

Posted: 2:28 AM Syria calls its downing of Turkish plane an accident, but Turkey threatens retaliation...Syria forms new government; key posts unchanged...

Posted: 2:20 AM Huge Iranian resistance rally in Paris...Chinese spacecraft docks with orbiting module...Yemen: Army takes new al-Qaida stronghold...Kenya police seize explosive material...Quake strikes of coast of eastern Russia...

Posted: 1:08 AM New Greek government to seek renegotiation of bailout terms on salaries, taxes...

Posted: 4:11 AM A day after spending mere hours as a hurricane, Tropical Storm Chris is expected to weaken and fizzle out in the north Atlantic.

Posted: 4:09 AM Israeli police say they are investigating hate graffiti scrawled in Arabic on a synagogue in northern Israel.

Posted: 11:53 PM Japanese game maker Nintendo Co. is introducing an upgrade of its 3DS handheld machine sporting a screen nearly twice as big as those on sale.