Canadian man gets 11 years for sex tourism charges
A Canadian man who videotaped himself having sex with girls as young as eight in Cambodia and Colombia victimized the children, a judge ruled Wednesday in sentencing him to 11 years in prison.
Oil tanker damaged; cause disputed
 A Japanese shipping line raised alarm Wednesday when it said that one of its supertankers was damaged by an explosion in the Persian Gulf, but authorities on both sides of the tense waterway denied that any strike occurred.
Pakistanis rush to scene: 'I just wanted to help'
French couple held after discovery of 8 dead babies
 A French couple was expected to appear in court Thursday after police found the corpses of eight newborn babies in a village in northern France.
Four S. Africans to pay fine for racist video
 Four white South African men reached a deal on Wednesday to pay fines for making a video showing elderly black cleaners being humiliated, including by drinking what was apparently urine-tainted soup.
Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered
 Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday.
Tanzania to hang blood-drinking killer of albino girl
A man has been sentenced death by hanging for killing a five-year-old albino girl in Tanzania by hacking off her legs with a machete and then drinking her blood, media reported on Wednesday.
'Emotional' reunion for Haiti quake baby, mom
 A mother broke down in tears as she was reunited with her baby girl six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti.
US: Drills sent 'clear message' to NKorea
 For four days, U.S. and South Korean troops fired artillery into the skies and dropped anti-submarine bombs on underwater targets — dramatic exercises meant to warn North Korea not to strike again.
Pakistan jet crash kills all 152 on board
A passenger jet that officials suspect veered off course in monsoon rains and thick clouds crashed into hills overlooking Pakistan's capital Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board and scattering body parts and twisted metal far and wide.
Medvedev widens powers of KGB successor agency
Russia has broadened the authority of the Federal Security Service, the KGB's main successor agency, giving it Soviet-style repressive powers in a move critics say could be used to stifle protests and intimidate government opponents.
Germany charges man, 88, in Nazi-era murders
 The world's third-most-wanted Nazi suspect has been charged in Germany with participation in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp and other crimes during the Third Reich, officials said Wednesday.
Spanish region says adios to bullfighting
 Lawmakers in Spain's Catalonia region outlawed bullfighting Wednesday, becoming Spain's first mainland region to do so after a heated debate that pitted animal rights against tradition.
100 million Facebook users' details published online
 The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will no longer be able to make the information private.
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