Chinese authorities have seized 72 tons of milk powder tainted with melamine and are trying to track down an additional 100 tons, less than two years after contaminated milk killed babies and sickened people across China.

As they head toward a rendezvous with the international space station, crew members of the space shuttle Endeavour are checking for any signs of damage after Monday's early morning launch.

Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead, three Taliban sources said Tuesday.

Authorities in the Philippines have filed murder charges against the former governor of southern Maguindanao province and 196 others in connection with last year's election-related massacre there.

The group of American missionaries in Haiti facing kidnapping charges for trying to take 33 children out of the country last week made an earlier, unsuccessful attempt at taking dozens of other children, a Haitian police officer said Monday.

Toyota's president apologized profusely Tuesday, as he announced the global recall of more than 400,000 of the automaker's 2010 hybrid models, including the popular Prius, for problems in their anti-lock braking systems.

Iran's envoy to the International International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the window for nuclear negotiations is still open -- even as tensions rise over Iran's decision to defy the world on uranium enrichment.

Heavy flooding in central Mexico in the past week has killed at least 33 people and left thousands homeless, the government said Monday.

A Palestinian man murdered in his Dubai hotel room by a hit squad, the police say, that operated with European passports. Sounds like the plot of a John Le Carré novel, but this is reality and the hunt is on for the killers of top Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

A proposed partnership between the French government and Google is stoking fears in France that the country's literary treasures will fall under commercial control of a U.S. technology company.