Twenty years after the opening shots of the Bosnian War, former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is on trial at a United Nations tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The collapse of the European Union is being openly discussed as Greece sets up a caretaker government and prepares for fresh elections next month.

Karlheinz Schreiber, the German-Canadian businessman who played a central role in a llegations of a scandal that swept up former prime minister Brian Mulroney, was ordered freed from a German jail after suffering a heart attack.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is suing the hotel housekeeper who accused him of sexually assaulting her, saying she seriously damaged his reputation with what he calls a bogus allegation.

Fair or not, JPMorgan's surprise $2-billion loss is spurring the demand for more Wall Street oversight, and not a moment too soon, Neil Macdonald writes.

A Canadian woman accused of killing her two babies in Britain has been remanded in custody until early August, though a judge has recommended that she be transferred to a psychiatric facility.

A roadside bomb struck cars belonging to the UN observer mission in Syria on Tuesday, just minutes after regime forces opened fired on a funeral procession nearby and caused multiple casualties, witnesses said.

A lawsuit challenging petroleum exploration in Alaska's Cook Inlet was filed Tuesday by four groups, including an Alaska Native village, that claim seismic testing will harm endangered beluga whales.

Prolific Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes has died in a hospital in Mexico City, according to Mexico's cultural agency. He was 83.

U.S. President Barack Obama appeared on ABC's "The View" on Tuesday morning to discuss politics, pop culture and his stance on gay marriage.

An unidentified man was seriously injured after lighting himself on fire Tuesday outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people last July.

A man who shot his friend in the leg so his friend could see what being shot felt like has been charged in New York State with reckless endangerment.

François Hollande has become president of France following a ceremony at the Elysée Palace in central Paris, the first socialist leader of the country since François Mitterrand left office in 1995.

Former News of the World editor and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, her husband and four others will face charges over Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal, British prosecutors say.

A Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself called three of the kids who had sought help from a neighbor back to the house before firing the fatal shots, authorities said.