Friday March 12, 2010 Updated 3:37 PM PST
Embattled UBS AG has warned that Switzerland's financial industry is at risk unless lawmakers approve a tax treaty with the United States, and that other Swiss banks may be next to face pressure from U.S. regulators.
Elephant experts from around the world are joining a University of Washington scientist in calling for a moratorium on legal ivory sales, to protect elephants from being slaughtered for their tusks.
Sweden's parliament narrowly approved a resolution Thursday recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide, prompting the Turkish government to recall its ambassador in protest.
(03-12) 15:24 PST VATICAN CITY, (AP) -- Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese...
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(03-12) 15:24 PST LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- Two suicide bombers killed 43 people in near-simultaneous blasts Friday, the fourth major...
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(03-12) 15:17 PST LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peruvian officials say they expect train service to the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu will be...
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(03-12) 15:15 PST UNITED NATIONS, (AP) -- Fifteen years after electrifying a U.N. conference in Beijing with a call for women's...
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(03-12) 15:13 PST PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands...
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(03-12) 15:07 PST SAO PAULO, (AP) -- A Brazilian judge has ordered Air France to pay the equivalent of more than $1 million in damages...
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(03-12) 12:53 PST PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- The last of 10 American missionaries detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping is...
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