SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil prices drifted below $79 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as a storm threatening oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico weakened and investors eyed a volatile dollar. » Full Story

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Navy ships of the two Koreas exchanged fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, South Korean military officers said. » Full Story

BEIJING (AP) — Increased droughts, floods and storms will hit China's Yangtze River Basin over the next few decades, the result of rising temperatures globally, according to a report released Tuesday. » Full Story

PARIS (AP) — The city of romance got a lesson in love's hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital's first divorce fair. » Full Story

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — Saudi Arabian forces seized a strategic mountain straddling the border with Yemen and cleared it of Shiite rebels after five days of fighting that have left three Saudi soldiers... » Full Story

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, killing 12 people, including a mayor who once... » Full Story

KABUL (AP) — The embattled Afghan president pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration — a demand made by Washington and its international partners a... » Full Story

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go forward, sidestepping a crisis that could have... » Full Story

BERLIN (AP) — With concerts and memorials on Monday, Germans will celebrate the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ag. » Full Story

VERAPAZ, El Salvador (AP) — Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador... » Full Story