Europe, facing a momentous Greek election after a week of mounting financial stresses, is preparing for what some financial analysts are calling its “Lehman moment”: the prospect that Greece could leave the euro currency union.

Egypt’s Arab Spring revolution has stalled in a quagmire of divide-and-conquer politics, leaving the country’s revolutionaries splintered and disillusioned.

Car bombs targeting religious processions in Iraq’s capital killed at least 25 people on Saturday, the last day of a Shiite pilgrimage already hit three times in some of the deadliest violence since U.S. troops withdrew.

U.N. observers suspended activities in Syria because of escalating violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan is disintegrating.

Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz al Saud, heir to the Saudi throne, has died outside the kingdom, state television said Saturday. He was about 79 years old.

China launched its most ambitious space mission yet on Saturday, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock with an orbiting module and work on board for more than a week.

Iraqi police say a car bomb has hit a major Shiite pilgrimage, killing 10 people on the last day of the commemorations for a revered imam.

Iraqi police say a car bomb has hit a major Shiite pilgrimage, killing 10 people on the last day of the commemorations for a revered imam.

Activists say Syrian government troops have shelled suburbs of the capital Damascus, killing at least 12 people after the head of the United Nations mission in Syria said a surge in attacks by both sides in the conflict was impeding the work of its monitors there.

Egypt’s Arab Spring revolution, which toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, has stalled in a quagmire of divide-and-conquer politics, leaving the country’s revolutionaries splintered and disillusioned.