Intense blasts echo through the Syrian city of Homs after a weekend bloodbath ended in hundreds of deaths, activists say.

Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has been stripped of his 2010 title and retroactively banned from cycling for two years following Monday's ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Iran's semiofficial Mehr news agency says authorities have arrested several people over alleged links to the British Broadcasting Corporation's Farsi-language service.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says it is important to resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria without outside military intervention.

AMHERST - Fourteen people have been arrested during a post-Super Bowl disturbance at the University of Massachusetts that took police in riot gear and smoke bombs to break up.

A third U.S.-based cruise ship with an outbreak of stomach illness has sailed again after being decontaminated in South Florida.

Greek authorities say they will start work next month on a 10-kilometer (6-mile) fence on the country's border with Turkey to deter waves of illegal immigration.

President Barack Obama says it is important to resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria without outside military intervention.

A Libyan prosecutor says 40 suspects have appeared before a military tribunal in the country's first trial of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists since the dictator's overthrow.

Overwhelmed by record snow and harsh temperatures, Serbia and Bosnia closed down schools and struggled to continue public transport and garbage pick-up Monday, as authorities focused on trying to help thousands trapped in the region's remote mountain villages.

Police in Southbridge say they don't believe there is a danger to the public despite a weekend shooting in town.

Georgia's top court on Monday struck down a state law designed to discourage assisted suicides after a legal battle brought by four members of a suicide group who said the law also violated free speech rights.

State police say a 30-year-old Peabody man has died in a single-car rollover on Route 128 in Danvers that also injured the passenger.

A person of interest in his wife's disappearance set his home on fire, killing himself and his two sons, police say. Just prior, he had e-mailed his lawyer.

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice says China and Russia are running of risk of suffering the same sort of international isolation as Syria's Bashar Assad because of their decision to block a U.N. Security Council vote embracing an Arab League solution for the Syrian crisis.

Julian Zelizer says the former Massachusetts governor has put together a campaign that raises money effectively and has avoided many pitfalls

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Monday off the third-largest island in the Philippines, killing at least 12 people, an official said.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is keeping up the Obama administration's pressure on Egypt to release 19 Americans facing trial on allegations of encouraging unrest in the country.

A sniper rifle reported lost by a Holyoke police officer has been recovered while the city's new mayor was along for a ride with officers.