A search for two US soldiers missing in northwest Afghanistan continued Saturday after 25 soldiers were wounded in what may have been a friendly-fire incident during the hunt.

The UN Security Council joined calls Friday on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to fight corruption, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling the country's political situation "delicate'' following deeply flawed elections.

Honduras sunk into further disarray Friday after President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a military-backed coup, said a US-brokered deal to end the nation's four-month crisis had collapsed.

After two years of tough UN climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators say a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenhagen.

US President Barack Obama listed a range of fresh options being considered by the White House to spur growth after ''sobering'' news that unemployment spiked to a 26 1/2-year peak last month.

The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 is universally remembered as a night of euphoria and joy in Berlin. But for the city's police forces, it's also remembered as the night they played a key role in reunifying the city, making up new standards and rules on the fly.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Schapiro, who regulates a wide swathe of Wall Street, is the richest of the Obama administration's top officials.

Madagascar's political rivals struck a deal late Friday on the make–up of a unity government, paving the way for an end to a 10-month political crisis that has rocked the Indian Ocean island.

US President Barack Obama has delayed his visit to Japan next week by one day, a Japanese foreign ministry official said Saturday, following a deadly shooting at a military base in Texas.

Islam is "not responsible" for the bloodbath at an army base in Texas where a Muslim-American army personnel allegedly gunned down 13 people, the prayer leader at the mosque where the officer regularly worshipped said Friday.

Soldiers and medical personnel at Fort Hood, Texas, one of the nation's busiest posts, recounted a tale of horror following the terrifying rampage here when a lone gunman fired on scores of soldiers.

US President Barack Obama led his nation in mourning Friday as shocked Americans struggled to understand why a Muslim army doctor unleashed a massacre at a US military base, killing 13.

A disgruntled ex-worker shot dead one person and wounded five others in an office building in Orlando, Florida Friday before shouting "they left me to rot" as he was hauled into custody, police said.

A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded, Army officials said.

Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Friday he does not plan to make a decision on the relocation of a controversial United States military base before President Barack Obama visits Tokyo next week.

Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell seemed like a "civilized person" on the April evening that Tanja Doss went up to his third-floor bedroom for a beer — until, she said, he leapt up and began choking her and threatening to kill her.

Investigators spent five days searching a rural area of dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that had been shoved under her baby sitter's bed.

The United Nations is sending about 600 foreign staff out of the country or into secure compounds because of the deadly Taliban attack on UN workers, warning the Afghan government Thursday that international support will wane unless it cracks down on corruption fueling the insurgency.

Shouting "Kill the bill" and "You're fired!" thousands of sign-waving demonstrators thronged the grounds of the US Capitol Thursday to oppose landmark health care legislation put forward by Democrats.

Islamist militants blew up a girls' school in Pakistan's Khyber district on Thursday, the second such attack in the lawless region on the Afghan border in four days, officials said.