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The collapse of the European Union is being openly discussed as Greece sets up a caretaker government and prepares for fresh elections next month.

Karlheinz Schreiber, the German-Canadian businessman who played a central role in a llegations of a scandal that swept up former prime minister Brian Mulroney, was ordered freed from a German jail after suffering a heart attack.

Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger received a pat-down in New York before flying to Toronto, an occurrence which he says is "not unusual."

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is suing the hotel housekeeper who accused him of sexually assaulting her, saying she seriously damaged his reputation with what he calls a bogus allegation.

A Canadian woman accused of killing her two babies in Britain has been remanded in custody until early August, though a judge has recommended that she be transferred to a psychiatric facility.

A roadside bomb struck cars belonging to the UN observer mission in Syria on Tuesday, just minutes after regime forces opened fired on a funeral procession nearby and caused multiple casualties, witnesses said.

A lawsuit challenging petroleum exploration in Alaska's Cook Inlet was filed Tuesday by four groups, including an Alaska Native village, that claim seismic testing will harm endangered beluga whales.

Prolific Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes has died in a hospital in Mexico City, according to Mexico's cultural agency. He was 83.

U.S. President Barack Obama appeared on ABC's "The View" on Tuesday morning to discuss politics, pop culture and his stance on gay marriage.

An unidentified man was seriously injured after lighting himself on fire Tuesday outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people last July.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the Greek president has warned that depositors withdrew €700 million ($896 million Cdn) from local banks Monday.

François Hollande has become president of France following a ceremony at the Elysée Palace in central Paris, the first socialist leader of the country since François Mitterrand left office in 1995.

Former News of the World editor and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, her husband and four others will face charges over Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal, British prosecutors say.

A barnstorming Stratford, Ont. woman with a daredevil streak and a passion for adventure has quietly become a member of Jordan's royal family.

A Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself called three of the kids who had sought help from a neighbor back to the house before firing the fatal shots, authorities said.

European Union naval forces and attack helicopters conducted their first onshore raid on a suspected pirate lair in Somalia Tuesday.

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three crew members is heading for the International Space Station after taking off from Russia's launch facility in Kazakhstan.

Iran has hanged a man who was sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of a nuclear physicist, state TV has reported.