A key aide to Prime Minister David Cameron will be questioned by police over allegations a major British tabloid illegally eavesdropped on politicians and celebrities -- including the British princes, a senior Scotland Yard officer said Tuesday.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday requested a new lawyer to represent him in the ongoing Swedish rape investigation and suggested the allegations against him could stem from personal conflicts.

The flight attendant accused of onboard antics that captured the nation's attention when he told off a passenger and slid down the plane's emergency chute with a beer will undergo a mental health evaluation with the aim of avoiding jail time in a possible plea deal.

Commuters faced major headaches getting to work in London and across France on Tuesday as strikes shut down large parts of the transit systems.

State-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos says an explosion has occurred at its Cadereyta refinery outside the northern city of Monterrey.

Tropical Storm Hermine began to lose its punch as it pushed north Tuesday, after causing landslides in northeast Mexico and leaving one Texas town almost entirely without power.

A Florida pastor says he will go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Qur'an despite a warning from the top U.S. soldier in Afghanistan that it could endanger the lives of U.S. troops and civilians.

A Japanese journalist held hostage in Afghanistan for five months managed to send out a message via Twitter that he was alive when his captors asked him how to use a cell phone.

A sharp series of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch overnight, and earthquake experts warned Tuesday that another powerful temblor might hammer the region in coming days.

European Union nations agreed to create new financial oversight institutions Tuesday, hoping to prevent a repeat of the government debt crisis that nearly left Greece bankrupt and brought the European banking system to its knees.

Mozambique's government is reversing bread and water price increases that had touched off deadly riots, the planning minister said Tuesday.

A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 11 women and children and one officer.

Tensions emerged on the first full day of Australia's new minority government's rule Wednesday between the deputy prime minister and a kingmaker independent legislator over plans to make mining companies pay more tax.

A wind-whipped wildfire sent flames roaring through a rugged canyon in the Colorado foothills, forcing hundreds of people to flee and destroying dozens of homes -- some that belonged to the firefighters themselves, authorities said early Tuesday.

The international crossfire over Iran's stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery intensified Tuesday with a top European Union official calling it "barbaric."

A capsized boat that killed as many as 200 people was carrying four times as many people as the passenger list claimed, and boat operators bribed officials to allow them to overload the vessel, a Congolese official said investigators have found.

North Korea requested a shipment of rice, cement and heavy equipment days after rival South Korea offered relief aid to its communist neighbor to help it recover from recent flooding, Seoul's Unification Ministry said Tuesday.

Iran's nuclear chief said Tehran has the right to bar some UN inspectors from monitoring its disputed nuclear program, the semiofficial Isna news agency reported.

Lawmakers threw punches in Ukraine's parliament Tuesday over a government-imposed gas price hike and retirement age increase, while thousands of protesters rallied outside against the austerity measures.

A Somali-born Norwegian citizen has pleaded not guilty to charges of sending over $30,000 to top leaders of an al Qaeda-linked Somali militant group.

An Indonesian volcano shot a towering cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 25 kilometres away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy.