The leaders of Australia and Indonesia have agreed to formally cooperate on issues such as terrorism, climate change and people-smuggling in the region.

Silvano Vinceti probes history's coldest cases. But he's no expert, he's a TV host.

Myanmar's ruling junta began to release information about a new law that will govern the country's first elections in two decades.

Debt-laden Ireland is winning applause for adopting severe measures that Greece has put off, but pay cuts and tax hikes have put public servants in some unusual binds.

The InterAcademy Council, an organization representing scientists from around the world, will head up a review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change following a string of criticism over the panel's scientific reports.

The EU is considering a ban on speculative derivative trades, including credit default swaps, which have been blamed for worsening the crisis in Greece.

The U.S. vice president criticized the surprise publication of a new Israeli plan to build in east Jerusalem, which could endanger the renewal of peace talks after a year hiatus.

Hundreds of thousands of residents of Port-au-Prince's tent cities remain to be relocated before hard rains begin next month.

Egyptian officials have laid out an ambitious set of economic targets for the Arab world's most populous country.

Israel's top Iran expert advocates fomenting revolution in Tehran, as Israel's political and military establishment appears to tilt away from support for a military strike.

Afghan battle scenes with Hollywood-style special effects are staged by a company in San Diego to help U.S. soldiers prepare for deployments.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a hard-hit battle unit that its heavy losses have helped the U.S. begin to push back against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.

Topping the Spanish league will count for nothing if his Real Madrid side doesn't win the European Cup.

Airlines, airports and aviation regulators in the U.S. and Europe have found inexpensive ways to cut fuel consumption, carbon emissions and flight times by cooperating more effectively on air-traffic management.

An author of a bold editorial calling for reform of China's divisive household registration system has been forced from his position, underlining the tightening limits on expression.

India's top micro-finance institutions will join credit bureaus to ensure the world's poorest borrowers don't get overburdened with too many microloans.

The Obama Administration's top trade negotiator, Ron Kirk, said the U.S. is working quickly to resolve a damaging trade spat with Mexico.

The Thai government approved the use of a stringent security law and ordered strict surveillance of antigovernment Web sites ahead of a major protest this weekend.

India's upper house of Parliament passed a bill that would reserve one third of the national and state legislatures for women.

Sexual-abuse scandals in Germany, the pope's homeland, and other countries are cause for anguish but the Roman Catholic Church's response has been prompt and transparent, the Vatican said.