Philippines declares emergency after 46 killed
AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies, pushing the death toll to 46 in some of the deadliest election violence in the nation's history....

Comatose for 23 years Belgian feels reborn
BRUSSELS (AP) -- With a caretaker holding his hand, a Belgian man who was diagnosed as comatose for 23 years typed out a message Tuesday that he felt reborn after decades of loneliness and frustration. A leading bioethicist, however, expressed skepticism that the man was truly communicating on his own....

China executes 2 for role in tainted milk scandal
BEIJING (AP) -- China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula - severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country's worst food safety crises....

Wooing of Taliban fighters is dangerous game
SHINKAY, Afghanistan (AP) -- A battered taxi sped up a dusty road toward a squad of Afghan soldiers searching for bombs planted in the dirt. Army gunmen who had fanned out for protection readied for a suicide attacker. The car screeched to a halt....

France shows off cutting-edge navy ship in Russia
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- French officers on Tuesday showed off a cutting-edge warship to a potential buyer - the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring countries....

Festival of mass animal sacrifice begins in Nepal
BARIYAPUR, Nepal (AP) -- The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn Tuesday. Then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding curved swords began slaughtering buffalo calves by hacking off their heads....

Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday....

Big Bang atom smasher starts speeding proton beams
GENEVA (AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher used its accelerator Tuesday to speed up proton beams for the first time as scientists moved ahead in efforts to learn more about the universe....

Furry felons rob SAfrican tourists, steal food
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons....

Prisoner swap could win release of popular leader
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- At the top of the list of Palestinian prisoners likely to be freed in a possible swap for an Israeli soldier is a firebrand politician many Palestinians believe is a likely future president who can pull them out of their current political deadlock....