Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local officials.

Britain's security depends on its success in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a speech Monday, seeking to convince a skeptical public that his country has no choice but to keep fighting there.

The driver of a security van who vanished earlier this month with more than 11 million euros (US$16.5 million) in cash has surrendered to police in Monaco, French authorities said on Monday.

Spain's prime minister says Somali pirates have freed a Spanish trawler with crew of 36 after holding them hostage for more than six weeks.

More than 49 million Americans — one in seven — struggled to get enough to eat in 2008, the highest total in 14 years of a federal survey on “food insecurity,” the U.S. government said on Monday.

When 5-year-old Shaniya Davis of North Carolina went missing, suspicion turned to a man described as her mother's boyfriend.

Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico's last governor hosts dozens of rare and endangered species and was championed by celebrities who helped fight off resort proposals.

Peruvian President Alan Garcia accused Chile of assaulting Peru's sovereignty, throwing his weight behind allegations that Chile paid a Peruvian military officer to spy.

U.S. Senate Democrats will attempt to pass a climate-change bill in “early spring” of 2010, Senator John Kerry told reporters on Monday, further complicating prospects for an international summit on global warming next month.

Police say they have arrested a man and woman on suspicion of involvement in the dissident Irish Republican Army slaying of two British soldiers in March.