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Syrian forces opened fire Friday on anti-government demonstrators in Aleppo, the opposition claimed, a day after thousands purportedly took to the streets calling for an end to the regime in a city widely considered a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad.

A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Lai Changxing, a tycoon who spent more than a decade as a fugitive in Canada, to life in prison for smuggling and bribery, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan will attend the NATO summit meeting about Afghanistan in Chicago this weekend, his office said in a statement Thursday.

Iran has threatened legal action against Google for not labeling the Persian Gulf on its maps.

Al-Qaeda's leader is calling for the Yemeni people to rise up against the country's new president, portraying him as the stooge of the unpopular former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the United States.

Cabinet ministers in Greece's interim government, which will run the country until new elections on June 17, are sworn in as fears swirl of a eurozone exit.

Raising fears of a rift between Paris and Berlin, France's new finance minister says his country may refuse to ratify the European pact on budget discipline without plans for growth.

The relationship between France and Germany is the barometer of the political health of Europe, writes Richard Whitman.

War crimes trial of ex-Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic suspended indefinitely over a dispute about the prosecution's failure to disclose some evidence.

Suicide attackers with explosives stormed a governor's compound in southwestern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing themselves and seven people, officials said.

The United States says it has taken all the necessary steps on its side to admit Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese human rights activist who ignited a diplomatic frenzy when he escaped house arrest last month.

Nebraska state Sen. Deb Fischer won the Republican nomination for an open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, official results showed, beating two better-funded candidacies for the opportunity to face off against a former U.S. Senator for the open seat in November.

Unable to cobble together a workable coalition, Greek President Karolos Papoulias has called for all parties to meet with him Wednesday to set up a caretaker government that will conduct new elections.

Indonesian authorities said Wednesday that they had found part of the flight recorder of the Russian passenger jet that crashed into the side of a volcano during a demonstration flight last week, killing 45 people.

Ratko Mladic, accused of orchestrating an ethnic cleansing campaign that prosecutors say included the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Bosnia, goes on trial Wednesday.

A four-vehicle U.N. convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device Tuesday in Syria, the United Nations said.

France's newly inaugurated Socialist president Francois Hollande delves into the economic mess, calling for policies that would spur growth in the ailing eurozone.

International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has announced new charges against a former Congolese rebel leader, who is also a general in the Congolese Army despite having been already accused of war crimes.

A notorious prison in Baghdad's Green Zone is still open despite the Iraqi government having said more than a year ago it was closed, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

In a rare public appearance, former President George W. Bush spoke Tuesday to dissidents from countries including China, Cuba and Syria, to honor their attempts to bring democracy to the world.