Pakistan: 25-member Cabinet sworn in
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's new premier has unveiled a 25-member Cabinet that must tackle major economic and security challenges following a sweeping election win.

BERLIN -- The United Nations launched its biggest humanitarian appeal ever Friday to help millions of Syrians suffering the effects of a conflict that has dragged on for more than two...
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's new premier has unveiled a 25-member Cabinet that must tackle major economic and security challenges following a sweeping election win.
ISTANBUL -- Turkey's prime minister took a combative stance on his closely watched return to the country early Friday, telling supporters who thronged to greet him that the protests that have swept the country must come to an end.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- About a hundred police officers in Honduras are protesting over the suspension of 1,400 investigators this week while authorities conduct drug tests, polygraph questioning and other checks looking for organized crime ties.
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican soldiers have rescued 165 people kidnapped by a drug cartel and held for as long as three weeks in a one-story home alongside the U.S. border.
LONDON -- Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II's husband has been admitted to a London hospital for an exploratory operation.
MILAN -- Italian Premier Enrico Letta says he will follow China's decision to launch a trade investigation into European wine "with maximum attention" given the importance of the sector for the country's economy.
RIO DE JANEIRO -- The son of Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a cyclist, the Rio de Janeiro state judiciary said Thursday.
TUNIS, Tunisia-- As Turkey's leader visited Tunisia on Thursday, two small demonstrations took place in Tunis in support of the anti-government protests taking place in Turkey.
DRESDEN, Germany -- The surging Elbe River crested Thursday in the eastern German city of Dresden, sparing the historic city center but engulfing wide areas of the Saxony capital.
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi officials say two car bomb explosions in Baghdad have killed at least six people and wounded more than two dozen.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The governor of an eastern province in Afghanistan alleged on Thursday that an overnight NATO airstrike killed three civilians and wounded seven there, a claim the US-led coalition flatly denied.
BERLIN -- Gay rights campaigners won a victory over the German government Thursday as the country's top court ruled that homosexual couples in civil unions should receive the same tax benefits as heterosexual married couples.
FRANKFURT, Germany -- The European Central Bank and its president, Mario Draghi, have played a key role in fighting the government debt crisis afflicting the 17 European Union member countries that use the euro.
PRAGUE -- A court in the Czech Republic has given a six-month suspended sentence to a man for shooting at the country's president with an air pistol that fires plastic pellets.
TUNIS, Tunisia -- A roadside bomb killed two Tunisian soldiers Thursday while they were hunting al-Qaida-linked militants in a mountainous region near the Algerian border -- the first military deaths from enemy fire in a campaign that began in December.
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have moderated his rhetoric regarding the anti-government protests in his country.
VIENNA-- Austria announced on Thursday that it is withdrawing the country's 377 U.N. peacekeepers from the Golan Heights after the Syrian conflict briefly spilled over to an area near their position.
LONDON -- The failure of European Central Bank President Mario Draghi to hint at any further easing in monetary policy weighed on stock markets Thursday but shored up the euro.
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- A Sudanese military spokesman says a military training helicopter has crashed in the country's south, killing its two crew members.