International Headlines

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate end to fighting in the Gaza Strip during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council in New York late Tuesday.

Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos said his office still needs "at least another few months" to investigate statements made by the only remaining suspect, Joran van der Sloot, during a hidden-camera interview which was broadcast on Dutch television last year.

Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli airstrike has hit a U.N. school in the northern Gaza Strip, the second deadly Israeli airstrike to hit a U.N. school on Tuesday.

Armed men attacked a private Sri Lankan television station early Tuesday, tossing hand grenades, spraying the building with gunfire and sparking a blaze that caused heavy damage, witnesses and police said.

Venezuela ordered the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador on Tuesday to protest Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

At least two Bulgarian cities were totally without gas Tuesday, and nations like Turkey were turning to Iran to bolster their supplies, as a natural gas crisis looms over Europe after a contract dispute between Russia and Ukraine.

The SITE Monitoring Service says the audio statement by Ayman al-Zawahiri was posted on militant Web sites Tuesday.

A French yachtsman has been found alive and well but trapped inside his overturned racing boat after two rivals in a round-the-world race dashed to the vessel 200 miles off Cape Horn.

Three German children have been caught trying to run away to Africa for a wedding in the sun.

German billionaire Adolf Merckle killed himself after his business empire fell victim to the global financial crisis, his family said.

Greek police said a weapon that was used in a pre-dawn attack on riot police in Athens that left a policeman critically injured was also used in a 2007 attack claimed by a domestic extremist group.

A homcide bomber attacked police in northwest Pakistan as they rushed to treat civilians injured by an earlier explosion, killing seven people and wounding at least 25 others, said a police official.