Dutch authorities can detain two men held on suspicion of plotting a terrorist act for another day without charging them, a prosecution spokesman said Wednesday.

In only eight months, 2010 has become the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, according to a CNN count.

Mexican authorities have rescued six undocumented Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month in Cancun, a vacation hotspot on the nation's Yucatan Peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Wednesday.

A Qantas Airlines flight bound for Sydney, Australia, from San Francisco, California, was forced to return to San Francisco early Tuesday after experiencing problems with one of the plane's engines, the airline said.

Divers are recovering bottles of champagne that have been lying at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for about two centuries, an autonomous Finnish island official said Wednesday.

Violence killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians in August, authorities said Wednesday, a day after President Barack Obama marked the end of the U.S. combat mission in the country.

French police are raiding the Paris home of L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, a local prosecutor told CNN on Wednesday.

Swedish prosecutors will reopen the rape case involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. "There is reason to believe that a crime has been committed," said a statement from Sweden's director of public prosecutions.

After more than seven years of American military operations in Iraq, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will help mark the transfer of U.S. military command in Iraq on Wednesday.

The shooting death of four Israelis in the West Bank should not be allowed to derail the resumption of Mideast peace talks, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said.

The death toll from air strikes in Pakistan on Tuesday has climbed to 60, two military officials said.

A video apparently showing a young woman throwing live puppies into a river has sparked outrage across the Internet.

Fresh off a major speech on Iraq, President Barack Obama on Wednesday turns his attention to the extremely difficult task of trying to broker Mideast peace, with his special envoy declaring there is a "window of opportunity" for Israeli and Palestinian leaders to achieve an historic deal within one year.

Four Israelis were killed in a shooting near Hebron in the West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli medical sources and the army said.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair writes in a book to be published Wednesday that he feels "anguish" about "the nightmare" that occurred after the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, but defends the move, according to the Daily Telegraph.

National Police said Tuesday an investigation that began in February has resulted in the arrest of 14 people involved in an organization dedicated to the sexual exploitation of men, Spain's first such bust of its kind.

The military trial of Canadian-born terrorist suspect Omar Khadr, abruptly halted earlier this month when his defense attorney collapsed, will now resume in October at the U.S. Navy Base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba, according to the Defense Department.

Almost seven and a half years ago, President George W. Bush launched a blistering "shock and awe" invasion of Iraq.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution in his country, according to a newspaper interview published Tuesday.

Eight people died early Tuesday after attackers hurled several Molotov cocktails into a Cancun, Mexico, bar, the state attorney general said.