World News

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Khaled Hosseini, whose novels have sold more than 38 million copies worldwide, knows what a lucky man he is.

TOKYO - Japan's nuclear watchdog has endorsed a panel's conclusion that a seismic fault running underneath an atomic plant in western Japan is active, making the plant's restart virtually impossible.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on.

GRAPEVINE, Texas - The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on allowing openly gay boys to don the Boy Scouts uniform.

BEIJING, China - Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers - and even sits on the toilet - in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power.

MUSCAT, Oman - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Wednesday with officials in Oman to discuss their plans to buy a $2.1 billion air defence system from American manufacturer Raytheon.

WASHINGTON - Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The White House believes there is enough proof for a military force to seize them as terrorist suspects, officials say, but prefers to wait until investigators have enough evidence to try them in a U.S. civilian courtroom.

MUSCAT, Oman - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is talking with officials in Oman about their plans to buy a $2.1 billion air defence system from American manufacturer Raytheon.

MOORE, Okla. - Rescue workers raced to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.