A proposed partnership between the French government and Google is stoking fears in France that the country’s literary treasures will fall under commercial control of a U.S. technology company.

A British couple kidnapped by Somalian pirates in the Indian Ocean have issued another plea for help, saying they are being badly treated and need urgent help.

At least 1,100 people are dead in Indonesia as a result of two large earthquakes in as many days, United Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes has told reporters, with officials warning the death toll could climb into the thousands.

At least 106 bodies had been recovered Tuesday after massive landslides wiped out several villages around Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, an army spokesman and local aid officials said.

The Turkish government warned American lawmakers not to pass a resolution recognizing the 1915 killings of ethnic Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide.

An explosion killed at least 20 people and wounded 60 others Tuesday in the central Pakistani city of Dera Ghazi Khan, said a rescue service official.

The Taliban has released a new video that purportedly shows an American soldier captured in Afghanistan last summer.

The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, warned Thursday of a possible attack in Bali on New Year’s Eve.

Three Americans died when a cargo plane crashed early Saturday at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said.

British Airways is offering to let customers rebook flights at no charge if they are affected by a cabin crew strike announced this week, but the airline is not offering refunds unless flights are actually scrapped.

Former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich looks set to become the president of Ukraine as the final votes are counted.

In a little-known corner of southern England, more than 130 men are wrapping up in their winter warmers and drinking down their last whiskeys, as they prepare to do battle with their fiercest foes on the fairways.

An inquiry into the crash of a British aircraft in Afghanistan three years ago calls the accident “preventable,” citing a loss of focus on safety in an effort to save money for the armed forces, the defense secretary said.

Five men were convicted on Friday in Sydney, Australia, of trying to commit terrorist acts, court officials said.

When President Obama visits China next week, global climate change will top the agenda. The stakes could hardly be higher — for the two Pacific powers and for the world.

Investigators seeking the cause of the mysterious crash of an Air France jet last year have significantly narrowed the area they are searching to find the wreckage, a top official said.