KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- Malaysia on Sunday deported a young Saudi journalist wanted in his home country over a Twitter post about the Prophet Mohammed, defying pleas from human rights group who said he faced execution.Hamza Kashgari, who was detained in Malaysia on Thursday after fleeing Saudi Arabia,

TOKYO (AFP) - Temperature readings at one of the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors have risen above Japan's stringent new safety standard but there was no immediate danger, its operator said Sunday.Tokyo Electric Power said one of three thermometers on the number-two reactor at the Fukushima Daiic

Slain al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged his children to go live peacefully in the West and get a university education, his brother-in-law said in an interview published Sunday.Zakaria al-Sadah, the brother of bin Laden’s Yemeni fifth wife Amal, told Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper that the Saudi-born extremist believed his children “should not follow him down the road to jihad.”“He told his own children and grandchildren, ‘Go to Europe and America and get a good education,’” al-Sadah told th

BEIRUT (AP) ― Al-Qaida’s leader has called for the ouster of Syria’s “pernicious, cancerous regime,” raising fears that Islamic extremists will try to exploit an uprising against President Bashar Assad that began with peaceful calls for democratic change but is morphing into a bloody, armed insurgency.The regime has long blamed terrorists for the 11-month-old revolt, and al-Qaida’s endorsement creates new difficulties for the U.S., its Western allies and Arab states trying to figure out a way to

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ― A day after front-runner Mitt Romney regained some momentum in the Republican presidential contest, he faced the task of convincing Republican voters he is conservative enough to be the party standard-bearer and fending off a spirited challenge from rival Rick Santorum.Santorum went on the attack Sunday, calling the former Massachusetts governor and wealthy businessman “desperate” while promising to compete aggressively to win the upcoming primary in the state where Romney

CAIRO (AP) — The Arab League was to consider a proposal Sunday to revive its suspended observer mission in Syria by expanding it to include monitors from non-Arab, Muslim nations and the United Nations, officials from the 22-member group said.The proposal was to be discussed in a meeting in Ca

LONDON (AP) ― Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper was fighting to contain the damage after five employees at the Sun tabloid were arrested Saturday in an inquiry into the alleged payment of bribes to police and other officials.Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which owns the newspaper, said police had searched their homes and the group’s London offices, potentially deepening the scandal over British tabloid wrongdoing.The Sun’s deputy editor Geoff Webster, picture editor John Edwards, chief reporter

BELGRADE (AFP) ― Snow drifts reaching up to rooftops kept tens of thousands of villagers prisoners in their own homes Saturday as the death toll from Europe’s big freeze rose past 550.More heavy snow fell on the Balkans and in Italy, while the Danube river, already closed to shipping for hundreds of kilometers because of thick ice, froze over in Bulgaria for the first time in 27 years.Montenegro’s capital of Podgorica was brought to a standstill by snow 50 centimeters deep, a 50-year record, clo

BEIJING (AP) _ An overseas activist group says an 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China to protest Beijing's handling of its vast Tibetan regions. It's the latest in a series of self-immolations by Tibetan nuns, monks and ordinary people.Free Tibet said in a statement Sund