World

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- President Cristina Fernandez comes to Wall Street and Washington on Monday with a message for critics who say Argentina is headed for economic disaster by refusing to play by the rules of the global financial system: good riddance to the rules....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of the gunmen who shot and killed a U.S. immigration agent in Mexico last month....

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A Danish pharmaceutical company is changing its distribution system to stop one of its drugs from being used in U.S. executions, adding a significant obstacle for states that have scrambled recently to find a suitable lethal injection drug....

LONDON (AP) -- No need to bell this cat: A gray-and-white tabby by the name of Smokey has cat-apulted to fame with purring so loud it has been recorded at a potentially record-setting 73 decibels....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The list of countries where Moammar Gadhafi might spend a comfortable life in exile is a lot shorter today than it would have been in years past because of global monetary sanctions and possible trial at the International Criminal Court....

BANGKOK (AP) -- As Thailand's floodwaters continue their slow journey to the sea, large swaths of the country have drained and dried, leaving behind a stinky, thick grime on everything touched by the nation's worst deluge in more than a half century....

LONDON (AP) -- BAA Ltd., the owner of Heathrow airport, must sell another London airport and one in Scotland to promote greater competition, Britain's anti-monopoly agency said Wednesday....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippine government said China on Wednesday executed three Filipinos convicted of drug smuggling despite last-minute appeals for clemency and political concessions by the Southeast Asian country's leaders....

ONAGAWA, Japan (AP) -- As a massive tsunami ravaged this Japanese fishing town, hundreds of residents fled for the safest place they knew: the local nuclear power plant....

MOSCOW (AP) -- The American Ballet Theatre has returned to Moscow for the first time since the 1960s and the first time since the defection of Mikhail Baryshnikov, who left Russia's famed Bolshoi Theatre to bring his luminous star power to the U.S. ballet company....